When you start the day with functional but slow and incomplete network-share browsing, and end it with no network-share browsing whatsoever, you know you haven’t exactly had the most productive working day ever.

When you “accomplish” this by following to the letter the precise instructions found on a half-dozen websites on the subject, instructions meant to solve the original problem, you know that the whole damned thing’s a scam and a waste of time.

When you realize that you’re the only person who really needs (and I’m using “needs” in the loosest possible sense of the word) to browse Microsoft Networking shares in the first place, you know that it’s time to just take a deep breath, shrug the whole thing off and move on to your next impending disaster…