----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:13 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: XP slower?
> Thanks Mike, > > I wonder if it would be OK with MS to put some snipets from your story on > all the Windows update boxes... In theory, if you never snafued (is that a word?) your computer in any way, an upgrade should work, but reality is different than that. Very few machines get through a couple years without uninstalling/installing, notwithstanding people bringing (against company wishes I should hope) their own slopware into the mix. End result is a registry fraught with potholes and a misbehaving machine that you are going to roll all its' troubles forward into an upgrade? [shudder] > > At 03:24 PM 5/26/2004 -0500, you wrote: > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Dennis Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:01 PM > >Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: XP slower? > > > > > >> Mike, > >> > >> Not sure what you mean by: > >> > >> "It should be the first line in the IT departments Standards of Practices." > >> > >> I'm assuming your point is that after upgrading a PC, make sure that it > >> works better than before or at least not worse. > > > >No. I mean NEVER upgrade. Always clean install. I would guess that IT > departments that stay ahead of the curve keep > >their standard workstation installation image file stored and apply it > with Ghost or similar tool. > > > >It just isn't worth the wasted effort to make an upgrade work if it > doesn't go well. > > > >The time wasted troubleshooting almost always is greater than the time to > install Office and 3 or four other > >applications on a virgin machine.... > > > >A few years back I occasioned to talk to a guy from Indy that headed IT in > a big lawfirm there (about 200 plus PCs in > >the bldg). > > > >He said they Never Upgraded a machine and they replaced about 25% of the > PCs annually, either planned or through service > >attrition. > > > >He told me if a machine was having trouble and he couldn't nail it down in > 30 minutes, the machine was pulled and > >replaced with new. > > > > They had arrived at this policy from tracking average "Time to Cure" over > some few year period and determined that the > >cost of the Service Hours plus the Lost Productivity, etc led them to this > conclusion. > > > > > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Dennis > >> ***** > >> > >> > >> > >> At 09:19 AM 5/26/2004 -0500, you wrote: > >> > > >> >----- Original Message ----- > >> >From: "Dennis Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:12 AM > >> >Subject: [RBASE-L] - XP slower? > >> > > >> > > >> >> RBase 6.5++ > >> >> > >> >> A customer on a LAN has the RBase files and dbfiles on their server and > >> >> only a desktop shortcut on their PC. Their IT folks recently upgraded > their > >> >> PC to Windows XP, and now "going from screen to screen is much slower". > >> >> > >> >> My thought was that Windows upgrades are sometimes not nearly as nice > as a > >> >> clean install. Any other ideas? > >> > > >> >It should be the first line in the IT departments Standards of Practices. > >> > > >> >> TIA, > >> >> > >> >> Dennis > >> >> ***** > >> >> Dennis Fleming > >> >> IISCO > >> >> http://www.TheBestCMMS.com > >> >> Phone: 570 775-7593 > >> >> Fax: 570 775-9797 > >> >> Cell: 570 351-5290 > >> >> > >> >> --- RBASE-L > >> >> ================================================ > >> >> TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: > >> >> Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> > >> >> (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: > >> >> INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, > >> >> REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) > >> >> ================================================ > >> >> TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > >> >> Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO > >> >> ================================================ > >> >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: > >> >> Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE > >> >> ================================================ > >> >> TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > >> >> Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n > >> >> (where n is the number of days). 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