Yes, thanks Dave, and the others who are giving me the benefit of their experience in these things. Dave I did see your advice about rebuilding the system. I took so long to build it the first time - only a couple of months ago, that I really want to exhaust all the other possibilities first. That's a BIG job for me - not really up to speed on XPPro things. However I'm fast running out of other things to try.
This machine isn't just used for my web development. I have a really tiny business - just me - this machine does a multitude of jobs for me, my business, my family etc. Rebuilding it isn't a trivial task, but as I said, there aren't many other possibilities left to try. Thanks for your suggestions, and thanks for giving a damn. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2003 12:32 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Macromedia DONT help me now. so where do i turn now? a clean install is the best way to go, as I suggested too you a few days ago. but xp also has a repair feature to where it goes over your install and fixes its files but I'm not sure I'd trust that. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:40 AM 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 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
