I tend to reformat every 6-8 months on my home machine as I back everything up anyway....
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Laureska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 March 2003 10:46 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Macromedia DONT help me now. so where do i turn now? In my experience, the only solid way to do it is to backup whatever data & settings you can, make sure you have all the hardware drivers/application software disks you need, then reformat the drive and do a fresh resinstall of everything and restore your data..... I'm not a big fan of trying to correct mysterious potential windows problems with reinstalling windows over top itself.... rarely does that work Quite honestly this is usually a good thing every couple years anyway... In addition this may be a good exercise in preparing for the possibility of a serious crash. Windows seems to self corrupt over time or get corrupted thru various software installs. And yes... this is a real pain & maybe shouldn't be necessary, but it's the only way to know for sure that windows xp is not the problem (I think you said you were running XP) Tim -----Original Message----- From: Michael Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:40 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Macromedia DONT help me now. so where do i turn now? I'm starting to think that perhaps the problem might lie in the Windows. Does anyone know if there is a self-repair kind of thing in WinXPPRo? If I do a reinstall, will it safely install with all my tweaks and setting or will it take me all the way back to the initial installation again and I'll have to reinstall all my apps again? Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 March 2003 4:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Macromedia DONT help me now. so where do i turn now? I'm just thinking along the lines that there may be something wrong with the computer, maybe a corrupted nic driver, or a somehow broken IIS install...I've seen both of those cause many strange problems. The Metabase can get corrupted, but IIS will still function to a point, and corrupted nic drivers can cause all sorts of odd things to happen. I've installed MX on 3 machines, some old, some new, and had problems, but nothing like what you are seeing, and haven't seen people mentioning this kind of problem, so the problem would seem to be with your setup somewhere.Trying to install on another system would at least give concrete proof that the problem is with the computer if it succeeds. At which point I'd say it's time for a Windows reinstall, or at least download a copy of Metaedit to make sure your IIS metabase isn't corrupt, and reinstall the nic drivers. Forgive me if I'm off base, I've followed the threads but there have been quite a few and I may have missed some relevant point. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, March 10, 2003, 11:30:08 PM, you wrote: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
