I don't know what my deal is, but if something can go wrong it invariably does.  I've griped about hard drive woes in the past (probably to everyone's dismay).  This week, however, the stars have been misaligned again.

First of all, my domain controller (why is it always the domain controller?) experienced a slew of bad sectors on the hard drive which necessitated a repair of Windows.  I knew something was wrong when I couldn't do a backup on System State for several weeks, but due to several circumstances I had to just let it ride for a while.  Well, finally it died (blue screened) when I tried to access it with Remote Desktop.  After a bit of sweat and frustration I ran a CHKDSK to find and repair the errors (there were several  bad sectors and CRC errors) and then repaired Windows.  Fortunately, I did not need to reinstall or resetup the domain - that would have been a third time in just under a year.

Secondly, while working on my dev machine, somehow my COM+ Registry became corrupt.  The application I was working on makes heavy use of COM+ so I was registering and unregistering my comoponent frequently to test things, but I've been doing that automated and successfully for a few years now with the same components, but it just decided to get corrupted.  Now, Explorer hangs when I try to browse the disks on the system.  I followed the instructions on the Microsoft support site to repair a damaged COM+ installation.  However, when it goes through the process of reinstalling COM+, I get error code 0x80040206, An unexpected internal error was detected.  The COM+ event classes could not be registered.  As you might well be aware, Windows makes heavy use of COM+ for its day to day operations, so this now leaves me in a state of not being able to use my system effectively.  Applications hang periodically and for extended periods.

While I was planning on reimaging my system, today was not the day to have to do it.  I have so much stuff to back off the laptop now and put back together I'm nervous I'm going to miss something.  Fortunately I only have one deliverable this week - but it's a big one.

What am I doing wrong?  I whole-heartedly believe that I live in a strange vortex of bad luck.  Maybe the electricity in my house is wired wrong (actually it was, I fixed that)?  Maybe I'm such a power user that I overload the circuitry on machines on the network?  I shouldn't have bought that printer the other day - I know it's gonna fail on me in a week.