jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Aug 6 17:33:46 CDT 2007
I have an old version - 5.2.0.310. It fixes everything it finds. No se why yours doesn't. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hale, Jim Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 5:52 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Guest account I bought registry mechanic this weekend and ran it on my machine (which has been running slooow). It found 860 "errors" of which it only fixed 135 automatically. So I am left with a bunch of indecipherable registry keys that may or may not be deleted safely. Kind of like saying "good news, we found out why you're dying but there is nothing we can do about it unless you want to perform the operation yourself. Oh, and if you don't do it right you die anyway" :-( Jim Hale -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 4:18 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Guest account The first thing I do is go into uninstall and uninstall all the crap. It is not hard, nor particularly time consuming. Unfortunately we all know that windows does not do a particularly great job of uninstalling so there are directories scattered all over with pieces of junk. One good pass with Registry mechanic cleans up most of that. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hale, Jim Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 4:25 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Guest account I bought a business desktop recently and one of the main reasons I went the business route was to avoid the craplets, thus putting me in the position of paying extra for the privilege of NOT receiving something! Is this a great country or what!?! Jim Hale -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:21 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Guest account BTW I didn't have to de-crapify this notebook. Dell advertises that their Vostro line come without pre-loaded software and they were not lying. I could have chosen to not have this Dell Networking Assistant not preloaded and given that there wasn't any other junk on it, I tend to believe it wouldn't have been preloaded. Vostro - nice low end notebook without the preloaded junk. *********************************************************************** The information transmitted is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. As a recipient of this email, you are responsible for screening its contents and the contents of any attachments for the presence of viruses. No liability is accepted for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com