I knew Windows could be buggy but…

Reminiscent of the apocryphal first “bug” I opened up my old laptop and saw some ants crawling out of it.

and then more.

and more.

So I got the vacuum and started sucking them up.

And more.

and more.

So I took out the battery and found something that actually startled me. Kind of like the Alien’s den in miniature.

Amazingly the computer booted fine.

For the first time in my computer history I used Raid ON my computer rather than configuring RAID in my computer.