Dummy for neighbor ... now he needs my help
Sunday, August 12, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Chuck
(73 messages posted)
A few months ago my neighbor got a new computer that has factory installed Vista
on it.
Up front ... I know little to nothing about Vista. I use XP; and plan to do so as
long as I can.
Back to my neighbor. Immediately upon him telling me of his purchase, I advised
him then, and several more times during the next few days, to be sure
and check to see if it required him to do a Recovery Disk creation ... much like
mine did about a year ago, with XP, when I bought it.
Well, it now turns out that my advice was correct; but was not listened to.
Today he comes over complaining about a bunch of trouble he is having. In asking,
it was determined that he has installed other programs, and something
he says was updates from Vista. But ... NO ... creation of disks. Boy, am I ++ssed
... to say the least.
I offered, like a dummy, to take a look at it to see if I can get it to work for
him. Claims he cannot get his emails for one thing. In preparation to do this tomorrow,
I asked, and looked in his bag of booklets and disks. Turns out he only has a dvd
from Vista in plastic pouch entitled Windows Anytime Upgrade .... which I presume
may be connected with his earlier
comment about 'upgrade download'.
In a word ....... he knows absolutely nothing about computers ...... and on top of
that, ignored several admonishments to do the recovery creation.
Now, in looking thru his booklets, I see there is an option to restore using the
hard disk version. Now my questions.
1. Is there anyway to create an unadultered version of the Recovery Disks that do
not have all the other 'junque' he has installed; drivers and all?
I'm presuming not.
2. If not, and if I do a recovery for him from the hard disk version, that will
void his ... I'm presuming ... expenditure to MSN for the online upgrade process.
(Like I said, I am not versed in Vista at all.) Or is there an upgrade process
like in XP where you sign in and download files that get installed.
3. If not for #2, then is there a fee to get the upgrades downloaded again, and
what would it be .... and can it be saved to hard drive rather than
installed immediately? I ask this because ..... no doubt ..... he will be bothering
me later on; and it would be nice to have it available to re-install.
Any advise and/or suggestions would be appreciated.
Chuck
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