Originally posted by clownfish:
Back-up your data, format your drive and start all over again. I format my drive a couple of times a year anyway and have found it to be the panacea for problems I don't even have (as well as keeping the system running as fast as possible).
And that's the reason why I think that Billy is on the move. While that's OK for you, and it is a valid option, when there's maybe 15 or 20 applications on the machine, 10 Gb+ of data, in over 25000 files, to do such a restart is over 2 days work, let alone the complications of then trying to find all the patches that have been applied ( sometines without asking) after the original load of the system. I've never yet got the same result twice when reloading systems, there's always a few files that I can't be sure where they came from or why, and in theory, I'm supposed to know about this c**p. Any of the Microsoft applications , both operating system and end user, have got so bloated with stuff that's of no real interest to the user, it's got the the stage where there is room and need for a mean clean tight and reliable operating system that can be managed without logging on to a web site every couple of days to check for the latest and fastest way to crash your system. I think that Bill is more than a little worried about Linux, and his original plan, let it get big enough to be useful, then buy it out, is no longer a runner, as he's not going to be allowed to go that way any more, the Department of Justice case has seen to that, so now he has to get Microsoft back to producing product that gets good reviews from the people that are not in his pocket, and work when they're loaded, not after the first patch within a week of release.
Time will tell, I think things are going to be quite interesting for a while!
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"Irish" Steve