MaxMouseOCX

Install Linux, get frustrated with it, reinstall windows and live with it - repeat for over a decade until you realise the last time you installed Linux you didn't get frustrated and have been using it for the past two years.

Might have a file system your OS can't handle, there was some proprietary shenanigans back then or its memory is just toast.

I don't think it's mostly gender... Programmers aren't usually those that have won the genetic lottery, I can count on one hand the amount of drop dead women engineers I've met in my field, they definitely exist, but they are super rare.