Francisco Tapia
fhtapia at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 17:32:42 CDT 2004
Steven, I'm no masochist either, which is why I keep my system running as stable as possible, no more wierd overclocking utilities, or overclocking hardware. With the release of Windows (95/98/se/ME) and then later nt/2k/xp I've found that upgrade installs often miss something in the process. I do not know if it is because a particular .sys file was upgraded in the course of time and when the installation program looked for particular dated files it skipped them or some other such thing. BUT I do now that fresh installs vs upgrades give me less headaches. Now you don't care enough about the calculator to re-install your system, but I bet it irks you every time you wish to run it, or when you hover your mouse over it... I bet it bugs you enough to ponder, WHAT THE HECK is causing that! :D, that fresh OS install helps avoid that. Plus not to mention it helps prune software that you may not be using anymore. I had to go through a similar experiance recently when I screwed around w/ my registry one tooo many times and hacked it all to hell... oh well.. I just ran a registry cleaner, and uninstalled a slew of programs, then re-installed all the ones I acctually use. it was good for my pc as things now run A LOT faster. btw, w/ you AV subscription, yes you CAN transfer it, but you MUST uninstall it from the original 'puter in order to be within the guidelines of the EULA. and there IS something like what you are describing now re:program transfer, you don't have to wait for then next Windows INOVATIVE OS ;P. I forget the title, but it goes along the lines of transfer my pc, or copy my pc... it literally reads your registry of pc1 and installs the correcto registry keys into pc2. don't know how well it works w/ Office and their activaton keys... but that's another reason I hate all this new activation software... On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:25:26 -0500, Steven W. Erbach <serbach at new.rr.com> wrote: > I have Ghost and I use it to backup my hard disk to another similar drive. But what's with the upgrade vs. fresh install bit? In the course of my life with computers I've upgraded operating systems, what, a dozen or more times? Every single time was an enormous disruption whether I upgraded or did a fresh install. > Speaking of software upgrades, before I bought our new workstations I re-subscribed to Norton Anti-Virus on my system. Do you or does anybody here know if I can transfer the remaining subscription to my new system? > > Anyway, Hindman told me that the NEXT version of Windows will allow me to transfer software installations to a new PC without having to do a re-install. That would be nice. But why did Microsoft wait so long? This is what I miss most about DOS: no bleeding Registry. Just copy the software and be done with it. > > The calculator isn't that important to me to even think about re-installing every program over again on my current system. No offense, but no thanks. > > > > Regards, > > Steve Erbach > Scientific Marketing > Neenah, WI > > "You must be an intellectual. No normal person would say a thing like that." - George Orwell > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- -Francisco