The CD is Dell's install of Windows SP2.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
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Ginger - Feb 24, 2008 9:24:49 am PST #4901 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Ginger - Feb 24, 2008 11:17:18 am PST #4902 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm back into Windows, and all my data seems to be there, but I've lost every frelling setting. I started this at 10 a.m. and dog knows how long it's going to take me to reset up everything and figure out all those damn passwords.
@#$% computers.
Kevin - Feb 24, 2008 11:19:28 am PST #4903 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
@#$% Windows, most accurately.
DCJensen - Feb 24, 2008 1:06:24 pm PST #4904 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Oh, and Ginger... Now that you are back into windows, I recommend TweakUI [link] it lets you designate an account to autologin on boot and a dozen other tweaks.
You can use it for the one thing or many. Just download, install and then run the program find the autologin section. Screenshots here: [link]
DCJensen - Feb 24, 2008 1:23:40 pm PST #4905 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
ION, I "recharged" a 3v button battery (CR3025) by taping it carefully to a 9v for 1/2 hour.
If it gives me a few blood tests before I can get to the store for a replacement, that'll work out well.
P.M. Marc - Feb 24, 2008 2:08:15 pm PST #4906 of 25501
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Y'know, I've had similar problems on Macs through the years, too.
So it ain't just a Windows thing.
(Signed, debated even posting this, but finds this thread useful, and really doesn't want to have to unsub from this thread again due to other people's kneejerk reactions against a product I on which I work.)
DCJensen - Feb 24, 2008 2:17:44 pm PST #4907 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Ginger - Feb 24, 2008 2:28:56 pm PST #4908 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've used Windows many, many years, and that's the first time it's gone quite so bad. Six hours of troubleshooting is very tiring, though. The initial mistake was mine, although I was trying to fix something that had popped up when I installed something else. I think of the inside of my computer as a battleground.
I'll take a look at TweakUI, DJ.
P.M. Marc - Feb 24, 2008 3:01:41 pm PST #4909 of 25501
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think of the inside of my computer as a battleground.
This is wise thinking!
Kevin - Feb 24, 2008 9:46:37 pm PST #4910 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I use Linux and Macs at home and Linux, AIX, SunOS and Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 at work.
I think every OS sucks. Having worked with Windows for many years, I can say nowadays it's actually fairly stable -- back in the 9x days, it was awful. Although I do loose about one day a month due to shitty Windows issues still. Windows Server 2003 + terminal services is particularly fun - it's a stability clusterfuck.