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In computer hell need XP set up disk
Am in computer hell. Windows is messed up - seems to have lost Explorer, Control Panel & network connections. Need a newish version of XP set up disk or expertise. Can you help? (currently able to use connection by phone only.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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But must say people have been fantastic. Advice from Malaysia, offers of disks and advice from members, free advice from Margaret's guy Chris and Alan Stanton's brother and more free advice and the free loan of a disk from Fastech in Green Lanes. On my last ditch attempt with the disk now. Failins that it's a spell in outpatients for my machine. (But tell ya, takes ages writing on a phone key pad.)
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thanks bushy. I do have an acronis backup but its a moth old and I'll lord all settings, e mails et al from the last month - trying to avoid that!
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Permalink Reply by Nigel Lupton (luptonn) on
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And, so to take this discussion slightly off topic...
Does anyone know of a backup tool for PCs that's as easy to use as Apple's Time Machine ? Since setting up TM on our Mac I've been very impressed, however the default WinXP backup is horrible and I'm not really convinced that it's backup up what I need it to backup.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Nigel, I definitely agree with your comment about Time Machine.
I have known Apple's reputation for ease-of-use for nearly 20 years, but my recent installation of TM was stunning even by Apple's standards. A few weeks ago I got a 750GB external drive and plugged in the transformer to the power and then the USB plug into the computer port.
A window then asked me if I wanted to use the external drive as my main backup for Time Machine, I clicked yes and that was it. The first (full) back-up took many hours but it backed up everything, intelligently, including the Operating System, but not including temporary and unnecessary files (I can also select files not to backup). UNIX-class back-up reaches the files other computers cannot reach.
I have not left out any steps. The installation of Time Machine showed extreme power with ultra-ease-of-use.
From now on, incremental backups happen every hour automatically and it doesn't need another thought. Of course, with a computer that is built to UNIX standards, its less likely to need the back-up in the first place, but no computer is perfect.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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This is an extremely geeky thread, the Internet itself is not this geeky any longer. The Unix that Steve chose for MacOSX is the best.
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(A delicious and satisfying blend of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD beans)
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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HOLD THE FRONT PAGE !
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That's it folks - given up; we're in hospital. Probably should have come here this motning instead of beign a stubbborn git and trying to fix it myself. Sitting in Fastech - they've said they should be able to fix me up today. In the mrantim, I'm enjoying giving up, and the rather chilled almost library like atmosphere in here - just wish I could finsd a keyboard whrere fewer keys have the letters erased. (I remember listenig to an interview with John Cleese about his film "Time" - the teacher trying, in vain to get to a meeting on time - and he said that it was apparently based on the premise that the most evil thing about being late for something is the hope that you might just be on time. Once you relinquish that hope the pain is gone. Like wuise for me with the computer. Now I've abandoned all hope of an easy fix. life's sweeter again
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Hugh, perhaps the hardware is trying to tell you something. Have you ever thought of trying Linux? It's not as scary as you think. You could run your PC from a live disc while you thought about it. I favour PCLinuxOS because it's easy for a non-techie like me. If you are at all receptive I'd burn you a live disc that you could use.
Jezza
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Thanks for the suggestion. What would I lose running Linux instead of Windows?
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... or a Mac, which does require different hardware, of course. The back-up system of Leopard ("Time Machine") is powerful not just because its integrated by the manufacturer (Apple) at a low level of the OS, but because its automatic, requiring no user intervention. Backing-up can't get overlooked and the most one can lose is the last hour's worth ... Mac OS X is a UNIX-class operating system, like Linux.
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Yes, I'm very temped by a Mac and I have just the excuse I need now. Same question to you Clive, what are the downsides?
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