re: To understand what it is, and what a reinstall requires, it will cost you
Friday, November 18, 2005 at 6:44 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Vicky
(5 messages posted)
I don't want to reinstall Norton again and cause more problems with DSL Bellsouth.
I also don't want to download anything from Symantec or Norton, ever again. My brother
advised me not too as again it might conflict with DSL Bellsouth. Microsoft.com said
to be careful where you take it as they can get all your information on it. I will
buy PConPoint CD that fixes problems as suggested above, and thanks for the book
idea. I will get that too. My son and I can both use it - should be a great Christmas
gift for him. As for draining and reinstalling - don't want to try it, but thanks
for all the information.If all else fails I will take it to a computer repair technician.
No, didn't have a dad who left me a million bucks. I grew up very poor. If you want
to know just how poor read this book "Low Down" by A.J. Albany. She is 11 years younger
than me but we grew up in the same neighborhood . My brother found her book recently.
Her parents and mine were a lot alike. Only difference was her parents were heroin
addicts. mine were alcoholics but we llived in the same neighborhod, had many of
the same experiences. My life is okay now, not poor but not rich either.
On Friday, November 18, 2005 at 6:00 am, Kiwi wrote:
>Computers have both evolved and devolved over the last several years. They have
>both improved and grown much less expensive. Though still not a cheap investment,
>a PC can be considered just another appliance in the home or office. Nevertheless,
>if it is to provide much in the way of a return on the investment, it should run
>correctly and not irritate the user.
>
>Beyond the PC itself, you have two costs, one of which is included with a new brand
>name PC. The first is the OS, which in 90% of desktop machines, is from Microsoft.
> You must own your own copy. If you threw away the CD that it came on, you need
>to *buy* another. No such thing as a reinstall without it, and there is no other
>"drain" operation to clean everything off.
>
>The second cost is one too many people resist, and yet it isn't that huge. You
need
>to take the time to learn more about what the PC is, how to tune it up, how to trouble
>shoot its problems, stuff like that. The very best way that I know of is to use
>a good reference, a book that talks to you like a friend, not like a stuffy engineering
>type of nerd, or talks down at you like some College Professors might.
>
>The most popular answer to this investment cost is the Dan Gookin book that has
sold
>in the millions of copies and started a publishing trend with its friendly, no nonsense
>style: "PC's for Dummies" is a great book for beginners.
>
>You won't get rid of the error messages that annoy you by half measures. So far,
>you haven't even come close to fully describing the symptoms you are complaining
>about, or the computer that you have that is having the problems, so perhaps you
>would rather spend $75-80 per hour for a technician to work on the machine. Maybe
>your Daddy left you a million bucks and you can afford that sort of expense more
>than you can a $20 book and a bit of your time.
>
>
>Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 12:53 pm, Kiwi wrote:
>>It's a last resort. Anything else on the partition where the OS resides will
>>also be wiped. You would need to have made backups of anything you actually
>>need. If you are determined, here is the tutorial:
>>
>>PC-911 -- http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/clean1.html
>>
>
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