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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
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29/12/2012 21:23
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: barnacle]
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29/12/2012 23:39
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Bad luck Neil; I sympathise.
Today was a completely wasted day for me. A veritable comedy of errors and unbelievable dysfunction. And I'm not just talking about me now.
Got a virus that warned me the police were demanding £100 to unlock my PC. Simple. Download something-kicker to a flash drive, plug it in, and boot up with it, to seek out and destroy.
PC doesn't recognise usb as a boot up device.
Even if it had, the PC won't even go into safe mode.
Right - I'll repair Windows with the OEM CD
Nope. I repair it, boot it up, and the police are still there.
I know – I can simply generate a recovery from my Easeus backup image. That's what it was for.
Consider it generated.
Whoa! – Doesn't reboot. Easeus has knackered it. So now what?
Got to go through the 'repair' Windows process again.
Once done, log in under a different user, and Bob's your uncle. It works.
But no. I can't type anything into emails, and search doesn't work, and so on. All sorts of files missing. Well done easeus!
Obviously need to go back to the repaired version, which works but has none of my settings, and copy across my settings using Windows Files and Settings Transfer facility.
In order to boot into that, I spend an hour working out how to edit the boot.ini files so that I can choose which version of XP I boot into. It works!!
Two hours later, I have it. The files and settings backup file.
Does it work?
Obviously not. The Windows service packs are different, and incompatible. So let's download service pack 3 and transfer it across to the PC.
Excellent, sets up a treat, so now I have two SP3s and can use Windows Files and Settings to transfer everything.
Nope. Backed up image not recognised, still.
OK – enough. Suffice it to Say that this is less than half of the story. It's ongoing.
I think it's a conspiracy. There should be a button labelled "press to restore to original", or "Reset". With technology being what it is, I just do not believe this is not possible.
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: barnacle]
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30/12/2012 12:51
30/12/2012 12:51
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Brian, didn't see your message last night... you have sympathy since I had almost the same symptoms trying to get an existing W7 installation to run on this laptop yesterday. Eventually I gave up...
Nonetheless, success of a sort has just about crowned my very efforts: this is being written on linux on the new box.
To be fair, it's a beta version ofthe latest redhat; I still have to use the bios to boot between W8 and Linux, and Gnome 3 is almost as bad as W8 in terms of user interface. Also, it's using a very strange video mode with minimal acceleration, but at least it is using it... There's a way of installing Cinnamon which I'm about to try, but I'd really prefer to find out how to install Mint 14 which is what I wanted to do in the first place...
For the advice of linux types here, as of today on an Acer V3-771, i5-3210, 2.5GHz, 6GD, HD4000 graphics, and a separate disc for the installation - a combination of CD, DVD, and USB installation media were attempted.
- gentoo won't even show a text window.
- Mint will boot in the alternate graphics mode, and will get partway through the installation, but locks up at the 'configuring hardware' stage and does not thereafter boot.
- Fedora 17 will fire up in either UEFI or BIOS mode from the installation medium, with slightly different effects, but won't give anything useful in either; sooner or later it black screens and goes silent.
- Ubuntu 12.4 won't do anything useful: black screen in either boot.
- Ubuntu 12.10 is marginally more useful; there are a few moments of either graphics (BIOS) or text (UEFI). Then it black screens.
- Fedora 18 Beta seems to work, though it crashes - white screen just to be different - after the second boot; thereafter it seems to work.
Time to hassle some developers...
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: barnacle]
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30/12/2012 13:21
30/12/2012 13:21
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Yup - it just goes on and on.
Today I have a working machine again, except that now I can't install the sound drivers (Sound Max Digital Audio D865GLC). It tries to install them, but just at the end I get the blue screen of death. Anyone know how to interpret the information on that? Something about Portcls.sys
The only solution for me is to make a regular disc image using xxclone. Must try to be more disciplined.
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: bockers]
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30/12/2012 15:26
30/12/2012 15:26
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I agree W8 is utter crap. Yes and No... In terms of user interface... its not great. I hate the fact there is no start menu and the metro interface just sucks. However if we look at the actual OS its very good. Ive been using it for over 6 months now. Boot time is superb, the OS is very stable and runs beautifully. Hopefully Microsoft will listen to the consumers and make some changed in the next service pack or version... We will see
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: Hyperlink]
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30/12/2012 15:53
30/12/2012 15:53
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How much different is the boot time? Got Intel i5 and, er, some gigs of RAM (you can tell I take notice of these things!) and boo time is literally like 30 secs after pressing the power button. That's from power on, to sat idling. There's no warning, for example, that the low-security password on the throwaway email address that you *must* use to start the program will be used as your login and password... and just exactly *why* is it necessary that the OS wants to pass your location details to Redmond? Why do these things come laden with 'free for a month' process heavy and expensive virus checkers, backup thingies, and other crap? Do I really want netflix and all the other stuff? Er, I don't have any of that?? Oh yeah, slightly off topic but what you said reminded me. Get Adblock It makes teh Interwebz like it used to be 10 years ago - not covered in bloody adverts!
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
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30/12/2012 16:38
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... I f**king HATE Vista and 7 - Nearly as much I hate Word 2010; broken piece of crap. docx my arse...
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
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30/12/2012 16:49
30/12/2012 16:49
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And what was it before, on which os?
I think mine is already faster than that tbh and I rarely switch it off fully anyway. hmmm boot time is sub 10 seconds on my windows 8 laptop
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
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30/12/2012 16:56
30/12/2012 16:56
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i dont have ssd but do have a pretty decent spec inc 8gb ram
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: MeanRedSpider]
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31/12/2012 01:16
31/12/2012 01:16
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Honestly - this thread just reminds me why I'm an Apple fan these days. You've got more money than technical ability? Sorry, couldn't resist
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