"Miss Perspicacia Tick" and "Anonimous"

Do you also overhaul your car's engine everytime you get a new tank of gas?
Geez, you computer people crack me up! I'm supposed to get 75 CD's and
backup my 60 gig HD, defrag, update all software, paint my house, resod my
lawn, etc, every time Microsoft sends an update? GET REAL!

"Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote:

Jim wrote:
"anonymous" I get asked to install updates all the time. this is the
only one that screwed up my system. If there were all types of
"procedures" that needed adhering to for SP2, Microsoft should have
given a tad more notice. No offense, but we users don't have time to
be computer geeks. We don't want to know how our TV works either.
We just want it to work!


And indeed it does. MS makes no allowance for PEBCAK errors. I backed up,
patched my software, updated drivers, defragged, scanned for viruses and
spy/malware and - guess what?! - zero problems.

If you fail to prepare - prepare to fail.

Funny that...

Another couple of points.

1) System Restore does *NOT* switch itself of. You must have turned it
off and forgotten to turn it back on.

2) System restore has no effect on personal files. It backs up and
restores system files only. Data files are *NOT* recorded. SR is *NOT* a
back up application and should not be treated as such. If you want to back
up your system (and I do weekly) then I suggest you purchase an imaging
application. Drive Image 7 was my application of choice but, when Symantec
bought PowerQuest they discontinued it. I have heard good things about Ghost
9, though I haven't used it myself.



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My great-grandfather was born and raised in Elgin - did he eventually
lose his marbles?