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Computer Crash here too

offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
I think I heard somebody say they had a crash recently, over a virus. Mine may have been over a corrupted install or conflict, but it took me down so far I couldn't even boot Windows Me in Safe mode. After 2 days of trying everything, I finally went to the recovery disk set and put my computer all the way back to original config -- meaning the whole set of upgrades and new software to load all over again. Boy, do I wish I had hi-speed I-access for downloads at the moment. But I finally cleaned up one old problem. When I reinstalled, I found that I was back to MSN Internet Access software as opposed to that clunker called MSN Explorer. It was my excellent luck to call tech support and get them to let me continue using it with POP email and IE instead of MSN Explorer. This will only mean something to those who know what I'm talking about here, but it's a great boon to be able to "go back" to POP email on MSN. It runs better smoother, and you don't have that slow interface when downloading your HTTP mail to Outlook Express..... Oh, well, I'm really tired -- I've been up all hours fixing this. Trust me when I say if you have a bad enough crash, NO computer tech is a real expert -- it's all trial and error. And when the problem is bad enough, it's re-format the C drive time. Well, at least it's cleaned up now. I'll be more selective what I load, and I'll surely find a better way to do my backup. All I had was emergency boot disks, which, trust me, are not the same as having a current image of your hard drive backed up. I've been back to the DOS stone age for the last few days. I have returned....

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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Offeror, I kinda liked DOS . . . a lot. Didn't have all that overhead (Windoze is what, like 100+ MB now?), didn't hang out the "welcome" sign to every piece of malware coming down the road and it sure as hell didn't crash every few hours over some conflict. On the downside, one had to know something about the OS to use a computer (fine by me) and there was that sticky memory management issue. One of these fine days, I'm going to make the switch to Linux & leave the world of MacroCrap forever!
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  • ghost614ghost614 Member Posts: 129 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    welcome back to the forum, brother. it's good to have you hear.
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  • groundhog devastationgroundhog devastation Member Posts: 4,495
    edited November -1
    Welcome Back Offerer! At least you could fix your own problem. I'm still computer illiterate and to send mine back to the home office for the computer expert to fix. Was down over 3 weeks!! Had withdrawal and all that!! Whole brand new virus systwm in now and hope it works!!! GHD
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Trust me, it's still a minefield out there. I was told not to upgrade my Sony from Windows Me to XP because I'd be missing too many drivers. Later, I find out that all the computer techs in town think XP is great and WMe is crappy and unstable. The only thing is, if you want a stable install of XP, you shouldn't really upgrade. You should buy the full version and re-format your hard drive. Excuse me? Personally, I started out on Macs, and for years I never had a "bomb" or an unexpected interruption -- Macs were always polite enough to warn you if something was about to conflict, or if you were about to try to copy a file onto a disk that didn't have enough room on it -- that sort of thing. It was courteous and the software was fully formed. When I got to working as a tech writer with software engineers, I found a strange phenomenon. They dote on building and installing pathways that are unfinished, highways that go nowhere, and machinery that isn't fully tested. In other words -- no quality control. I almost crashed the thing again today simply by doing an install that went fine until after it was finished -- then Windows started balking -- luckily, I was able to use Windows Restore to go back to last night's disk image this time. Now why didn't that install tell me it wasn't fully compatible with everything on my system? Because it didn't run an analysis. Duh. Reminds me of the old rationalization of the do-nothing company man -- "It's not My job..."

    Oh well, end of rant. Thanks for the welcome.

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    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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