I love the smell...
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...of a freshly reinstalled box in the evening (plus the DVD+RW drive I added in for good measure) :-) And the reinstall so far has gone surprisingly smoothly - mostly because I remembered to back everything important up and made sure I knew what all my passwords are this time :-D
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...of a freshly reinstalled box in the evening (plus the DVD+RW drive I added in for good measure) :-) And the reinstall so far has gone surprisingly smoothly - mostly because I remembered to back everything important up and made sure I knew what all my passwords are this time :-D
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Yeah. What with you being a relative youngster, I expect that none of your computers has ever got beyond about Cruft Level 3 or 4[^] My computer was around Level 6, with key problems including: * The iPod refuses to work, with an error message only found mentioned in two places on the net - and one of those was me bitching about it. * Pictures on the desktop won't "Preview", even though the Picture Viewer will view the picture quite happily off the "Open With" menu. * Outlook takes far too long to load, even by Outlooks standards. It was likely to hit 7 in a month or so (in fact, I did try the "second user account" approach to see if it improved matters - it didn't). So I figured I'd bite the bullet, install a shiny DVD writer while I was at it, and reinstall the whole box from scratch :) It's taken much less time than I expected to get up and running again, although I'll be fiddling with stuff for a week :rolleyes:
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Yeah. What with you being a relative youngster, I expect that none of your computers has ever got beyond about Cruft Level 3 or 4[^] My computer was around Level 6, with key problems including: * The iPod refuses to work, with an error message only found mentioned in two places on the net - and one of those was me bitching about it. * Pictures on the desktop won't "Preview", even though the Picture Viewer will view the picture quite happily off the "Open With" menu. * Outlook takes far too long to load, even by Outlooks standards. It was likely to hit 7 in a month or so (in fact, I did try the "second user account" approach to see if it improved matters - it didn't). So I figured I'd bite the bullet, install a shiny DVD writer while I was at it, and reinstall the whole box from scratch :) It's taken much less time than I expected to get up and running again, although I'll be fiddling with stuff for a week :rolleyes:
Trust the Imperial Computing department to have something like that. They claim they arn't geeks. I'm at Level 11 - Made the Switch.
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman blog.nonny.com [^]