I'm quite an experienced systems administrator and I have to agree that
windows no matter how hard you try eventually screws itself up. Sure if you
have no life you can constantly clean the registry and go through your OS
every day file by file. Normal people don't typically want to do that and
the utilities out there usually screw things up too.
Thought I'd share a trick of mine though. Many moons ago I made an image of
my windows system with Ghost with just the base operating system, drivers,
and a few programs I know I'll never change. Every 4 months I blow that
image on and spend an hour reloading the additional apps. Saves
considerable time on reloading and I always seem to have a peek system. I
keep all my data files on a separate drive. I also don't spend years trying
to figure out what I did with all those dam driver disk! :)
Kevin
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while i agree with a lot of what you said regarding windows and hardware
issues and the support that is out there, i don't agree with the viable
indefinately.
this would be perhaps true if you never used it or installed any software on
it.
my experience with umpteen hundred win machines around here is that after 12
months of operation, you are on borrowed time before weird issues start to
crop up.
however, if you never install any of MS other software like office, or
upgrade IE, and just use software that follows the rules of not F-**ing with
the OS then it runs a LOT longer without problems.
anyways, i guess my rant is OT.
so, i should end my part.
moose.
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 18:00, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2001 04:44 pm, Jason Guidry wrote:
> > Should be able to resize your windows partition and then install on
> > the remaining space. Make sure the windows partition is defragd and
> > healthy or it will give you problems.
> >
> > If that doesn't work, then try partition magic and resize.
> >
> > Or, what I really recommend is backing everything up and wipe the
> > whole disk clean and start over.
>
> I agree. Before you attempt to resize active partitons it's only
> prudent to back up everything you want or can't afford to loose. So why
> resize? Wipe and start over, replace your data from the backups.
>
> > . This way you can reinstall windows with minimum
> > pain. All operating systems, but especially windows, experience
> > "bit-rot" which will slow sown your system, and will only be fixed by
> > re-installing regularly (3-6 months depending on use).
>
> bit-rot ?? I sort'a kind'a think that's a myth, ala urban legend.
> Windoze, even the bug laden W95 can be kept viable indefinitely. Most
> of the problems Winblows users have are user, and lately win-hardware
> problems. The first one is that they never want to, or do learn how to
> properly maintain the OS. Most believe they don't or shouldn't have to.
>
> Just like Linux, administration of the OS is the users responsibility.
> I also tend to agree with those who've posted on another thread that
> there's just as many resources for user support for Winblows as there
> is for Linux. Most windoze users just don't seek it out tho. Also, with
> either, or any OS for that matter, hardware knowledge is paramount.
>
> Users don't know, or wanna admit, that they or their hardware is the
> problem, so it gets blamed on the OS.
