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What was the last thing you did on your computer that you really screwed up
I installed Windows 7 Beta and even though it's beautiful it has slowed my computer down to a crawl, has been unresponsive, and plus I lost many of my computer's drivers and had to hunt them down online. Yuk..going back to good ol' reliable XP
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Permalink Reply by Debbie Chamberlain on -
Ouch to that screw thing. I just remembered another oops. I once spilled wine in my now ex - bf's (wonder why) brand new Gateway laptop.
That was the end of that. It let out an ear piercing whiney sound, and it was declared dead. It was needless to say NOT covered on the warranty.
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Permalink Reply by Debbie Chamberlain on
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Remember in the day (not sure if this still happens with OS X) If you did a major league F UP on your older Mac you would get that upside down icon that if I remember correctly it looked like it was torn in half on the boot up screen - obviously not a smiling one either. (the Mac version of the kiss of death)
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Permalink Reply by ck13 on -
hmmm, downloaded a screensaver, despite my reservations about where it came from, but hey, sometimes ya have to do the dumb thing to remind you how much it can screw the pooch
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Permalink Reply by Debbie Chamberlain on
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lol...those are the worst! They put so much adware and crap on your computer. I once downloaded I think one of those screensaver adware infested sites at work in my office, and it downloaded this spyware that popped up Adult Friend Finder screens in rapid succession, it was almost like a video game trying to "x" them out and close the window. Before I know it I had 100's going and my boss within a few feet walking around. Yeesh
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Permalink Reply by ck13 on
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the worst is the new ones use your location to bring up local people, i once saw a picture of a friend of my wife's, showing all she had to show, so i can't look at her without laughing now
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Permalink Reply by Stroganoff on -
Wow! I always thought the things where it says the location was just fake.
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Permalink Reply by Debbie Chamberlain on
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Yea, me too. i doubt very much if girls looking that good live in this hood
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Permalink Reply by Zune80 on -
Honestly Deborah, when you installed Windows 7 Beta...did you do it as an upgrade over your existing installation? It sounds like you did which is a big no-no. Microsoft specifically tells people NOT to use it as an upgrade, and not to use it as their primary system. It's only to mess around with to get a feel for new features and how your existing programs and drivers may or may not work.
The reason I ask it because you said you lost many of your computer's drivers. The only way you could lose your drivers is if you installed over an existing copy of some other version of Windows. Otherwise, with a fresh install it would have been expected that you would have to go online to find drivers that would work with the beta.
I hope you're not judging Windows 7 based on this experience because number 1...it's a beta...and number two...because even when you install final releases as an upgrade over any existing Windows version you're just asking for trouble. It's always best to do the fresh, new install on a clean drive. :)
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Permalink Reply by Mad Max on -
This is something I've never understood with Windows. Why should doing an upgrade fuck things up so much? Other OS's manage it just fine, but no, Windows needs a clean install or things go tits up. You have to love incompetent programming.
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Permalink Reply by Branhower on -
Yeah, it seems like with each upgrade, Windows gets a bit more sluggish. A lot of experts say a clean install of Windows each year helps improve performance, but that shouldn't need to be done. I just do a disk cleanup and defrag once a month, and performance remains its "best".
Slipstreaming the service packs into a Windows install CD is the best way to apply the updates. I don't know if you can do this with Vista, but I definitely did it with XP. It helped out a bunch.
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Permalink Reply by jake on -
thats all i ever do a 'clean install' i love it lol gets all the crap off my hdd
yea it is slightly more complicated to slipstream a service pack into vista but it can still be done
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Permalink Reply by Zune80 on
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I have to agree with Dan here both about Windows...and unfortunately about your distaste for anything Windows Mad Max. I've read a lot of your posts and there are plenty of things I agree with you on, but it's gotten increasing hard to filter out your Windows bashing. It seems like you're on a mission and it's being a little bit intolerable to read. :( Sorry, but Dan verbalized what I've been thinking for sometime. I'd like to continue to read your posts, but only if it's not the usual constant barrage of Microsoft hate.
There are a couple of bloggers on Lockergnome who are the same way, and I refuse to read anything of theirs anymore because they are only out to bash MS and Windows each and every turn. If it rains in Seattle it's Microsoft's fault. If their car breaks down...it's Microsoft's fault etc. Gets old...really old.
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