Hi Chet !
Just a thought - D/L & burn a Knoppix CD (or DVD - a lot more goodies)
and pop it into your pc & re-boot. If USB & printer work - you know for
sure it's WinBlows that is the problem ! Knoppix is a live CD/DVD that
runs completely off the cd - no need for hd, and it's excellent at picking
up hardware. (Ubuntu is based on Knoppix ...)
You might have to use another pc to d/l & burn a good copy -
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
There's a ton of software already there - and an easy installer,
if you want to put it on the hard drive. Audacity might do for your
audio work .... and there's a VM already there too, for VFP ....
and K3B will burn cd's & dvd's ...
--
......bobp
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On Saturday 20 January 2007 02:42, Chet Gardiner wrote:
> I've had it!
>
> My windoze PC is going south (AFTER LESS THAN TWO F*CKIN' YEARS!!!!)...
> While it's at it it's taken out my calendar file. It runs like a slug
> (XP home on a HP a810n desktop. The first thing that went was burning
> DVDs. Now it won't recognize ANY external USB devices (my main backup
> drive and Printer -- goody!)
>
> I will NO LONGER work in Windows. I'm tired of being a Tech Support
> programmer (it SUCKS).
>
> I'm prepared to buy a new machine for my main desktop. So, should I go
> Linuz on a PC or Apple -- WINDOZE IS NOT AN OPTION!!!
>
> I do lots of email. I do some video and lots of audio processing. The
> Audio processing is at a PROFESSIONAL level -- two-track WAV multi-track
> mixes to CD. I do some word processing (but often have to read word
> files)... I need iTunes too.
>
> I guess I'm landing on Apple but what about it???
>
> My reservation about Apple is a response to not being able to get rid of
> the requirement to enter the main password to "unlock the keychain" on
> my girlfriend's iMac. We upgraded the memory, installed Tiger (10.4.8)
> and ran the keychain first aid and no joy. I found another keychain
> file in the top level library folder (called system) -- deleted it and
> then it worked -- no need to enter keychain password... Until next
> bootup then --- back to the nonsense.
>
> All OS's suck. Some suck more than others!!!
>
>
>
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