Re: [H] Windows 8.1 problem

2014-10-05 Thread Joshua MacCraw
Blah blah, not selling me on that Winerlight! The simple fact that Valve jumped ship from Windows says a lot about what Redmond is up to. There is ZERO reason to switch to 8 from 7 or Vita for that matter and 10 is on borrowed time until it's vetted as reversing 8's mistakes like metro the app

Re: [H] Windows 8.1 problem

2014-10-05 Thread Joshua MacCraw
Question is what file are you prevent from restoring? Must be something in the logs about it. Could be the very action that hid the files is what's preventing their restore. I'm sure this message mean the files in question (that won't restore) ARE in the restore but write is being blocked. Chkdsk

Re: [H] Windows 8.1 problem

2014-10-05 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 05:00 PM 03/10/2014, Winterlight wrote: I don't think System Restore restores all files - it isn't an image, just protection for key system files. It restores everything back to what it was. It restores changed files. I have never had it not work. It replaces user files with old copies?

Re: [H] Windows 8.1 problem

2014-10-05 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 06:20 AM 05/10/2014, Joshua MacCraw wrote: Chkdsk is good advice always as 1st course of action for soft errors but SMART is better for checking drive health. Good point. A SMART test would be worth doing as well. T

Re: [H] Windows 8.1 problem

2014-10-05 Thread Winterlight
At 02:15 AM 10/5/2014, you wrote: ll M$ wants, like the xbox experiment, is to lock the system down so far you have to pay them to fart. sounds like more MS is evil, I love XP, and want to live in the past whining. And why in the hell in the prime of Android would you want a windows phone?

Re: [H] Windows 8.1 problem

2014-10-05 Thread Winterlight
I hate to call you on this Winterlight, but this just isn't true. The 8 works better on older hardware is just wrong. I work on a lot of different machines - 25-40 a week, and I see a lot of 8 machines. I haven't seen one that outperformed a similar Windows 7 machine, and the odd problems

Re: [H] Windows 8.1 problem

2014-10-05 Thread Bruce Sinclair
I have run the CHKDSK with no errors detected. I know what S.M.A.R.T. means but is it part of Windows Administrator tools or do I need to get/buy a third party application? Thank you for your help. Regards, Bruce Sinclair On 10/5/2014 5:20 AM, Joshua MacCraw wrote: Question is what file

Re: [H] Windows 8.1 problem

2014-10-05 Thread Joshua MacCraw
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/ It's CLI likely needs administrator rights. On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Bruce Sinclair rbsi...@gmail.com wrote: I have run the CHKDSK with no errors detected. I know what S.M.A.R.T. means but is it part of Windows Administrator tools or do

Re: [H] Windows 8.1 problem

2014-10-05 Thread Joshua MacCraw
You're going to deny MS goal is to lock the platform up? You don't see xbox as the perfect testing ground it is to root out rooting? ;-) Boo hoo so Android isn't iOS or Windows simple polished but it's a hell of a lot more open customizable with stock (or branded) interface replaceable so you