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Time to reinstall Windows? Or get a new desktop?
TucknDar:
Nothing beats a fully fresh windows install, though :)
-f0dder (September 09, 2008, 06:32 PM)
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Speaking of which, you wouldn't mind sharing that nLite preset of yours would you? :-[
Carol Haynes:
When I did it I just used a complete image of the Windows XP disc and then added the drivers necessary for my hard disc.
gtoal:
> I built my current desktop back in December 2001
You're to be congratulated for running a windows-based OS for that long without needing a reinstall or being overrun by viruses for years without knowing it!
Dude, treat yourself to a new computer. You'll get more compute power and less electrical power. And if you don't already have one, get an LCD display :-)
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superboyac:
> I built my current desktop back in December 2001
You're to be congratulated for running a windows-based OS for that long without needing a reinstall or being overrun by viruses for years without knowing it!
Dude, treat yourself to a new computer. You'll get more compute power and less electrical power. And if you don't already have one, get an LCD display :-)
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-gtoal (September 10, 2008, 05:09 PM)
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Ha!! How'd you know? I still have a CRT monitor! It has such a huge ass, I can't wait to get rid of it.
If I get a new computer, I'm going to do what Zaine did. Put Linux on the old one and try it out.
PPLandry:
Nothing beats a fully fresh windows install, though :)
-f0dder (September 09, 2008, 06:32 PM)
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I thought so too... but recently had to switch HD and chose to re-install fom scratch and move it up to SP3. I even googled around on the best order to install programs (IE, Office, SP2, SP3, etc). My portable was 5 years old and working just fine.
My installation is just 2 weeks old now and there are a lot of things which are just not working as before. I suspect that SP3 is to blame for these, but they are so irritating that I'm considering rebuilding again (this time stopping at SP2).
Examples are:
- some high priority process seems to run every 3 sec. or so, preventing mouse move and making sound files choppy
- Only 1 process can send POP requests
- wheel scrolling sometimes has 1 sec delay
- Seems to be more HD activity
- MSAccess sometimes jams for 5 seconds while doing nothing special, unresponsive (I've dev. app with MSAccess for 15 years, so I know it well and have never seen this before)
- I installed Live Mesh and later on removed it and now I have a 2nd monitor named: "Live Mesh Remote Desktop Curtain Driver" :( >:( and apparently no way of removing it.
And the list goes on...
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