What in the world are you talking about? I've upgraded *clean* many times
and never lost anything. Are you not happy with your current backup
strategy?
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
I hope they find a better way to upgrade or a lot of us
They are talking a clean install. In other words, clean the PC.
Unless a clean install has taken on a new meaning.
When we did clean installs with Xenix it involved cleaning the
Hardrive installing the new OS and restoring all the programs, or reinstalling.
We set aside 4 hours for that
Maybe so. When I say I've always done clean installs, it has nothing to do
with cleaning the PC. I usually mean I just buy a new system drive, format
it, and install the new OS on it. Then I restore my personal files and
programs. Takes maybe a day. Many of my programs are on a different drive so
Many programs cannot just be restored they must be reinstalled.
That is my grief. Word, Abby Fine Reader, Paperport etc. etc. etc.
I do a Belarc listing before I do stuff just to make sure I have an
idea of what all I have put on my system.
But that does not do enough. I too keep all data
Yes, but those don't require you to attend their installation. Like I said,
it's rarely taken more than a day to do that. Or, more likely, I just do it
as the app is needed. The three you mention take all of about 10 minutes of
effort. Hardly a major project.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:31 PM,
OK what about the programs you have downloaded. The programs you
forgot you put on until you need.
A desktop computer is just like you favorite bedroom. It is nice
until you rearrange it and then you spend a lot of time trying to
find things you once knew were there.
When you use your
Negative. I can probably count on one hand the number of clean installs I've
done. Win98 to Win2k, Win2k to WinXP, WinXP to Vista, And soon Vista to
Win7.
I have many downloaded apps. These days I never purchase physical media if I
can avoid it. They re-install as easily as anything. Five minutes
No my fears are well bourne from having to reload systems after a crash.
Not interested.
Stewart
At 10:20 PM 4/30/2009, you wrote:
Negative. I can probably count on one hand the number of clean installs I've
done. Win98 to Win2k, Win2k to WinXP, WinXP to Vista, And soon Vista to
Win7.
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