Another Vista question.
Any advice welcome for this one. The question I am asking, maybe a bit longwinded, is will I lose my photos?
My Vista Home Premium is working slow. Thanks for previous advice on CC Cleaner, but now even that does not speed things up. My problem is I have only 80 GB hard drive with a lot of photos to corrrelate and save to DVD.
The DVD drive was working OK 3 days back, now takes up to 5 minutes to check 'properties' or explore even an empty disk. With several thousand pictures to sort this is a pain, in 3 hours I had not saved one file.
I am running SP1 as SP2 stopped the modem from working by doing a botched update, giving no choice of cancel. Reload of driver was hard as Vista said could not locate INF file. Search of Internet cannot find my modem, a One World ADSL2 router 1 port.
Clearly I need to repair my present version, as a start. However, I worry about all the photos I have loaded to file by them chronologically (hence the large number).
If I repair by using the install disk, selecting repair, will the photos be lost or dissociated?
Next stage would be load SP2. However, without a later version of the modem driver with an accessible INF file this looks like being more than a routine chore. Downloading RC7 may be a choice but I doubt if it will load over a damaged SP1 version of Vista.
Computer is seemingly in good condition, the large number of crashes I am putting down to Vista. same for the slow access to the DVD drive. Hard drives seem OK and memory checked in the computer and at a computer repair shop. Virus scans OK.
Computer has Intel board, Pentium 4 at 3 Ghz, memory 1.5 Gb, 32 bit Vista Home Premium (genuine).