[dba-Tech] Guest account

I checked and turns out I have Migos registry repair (a Fry special) not
registry mechanic. Most of the errors it won't fix are for file paths it
can't find but doesn't want to delete since the docs say programs may
need them. In any case using it didn't speed up the machine much. I may
have to lobotomize the hard drive and reload. This machine is running
windows 2000 prof and I hate the thought of reinstalling everything,
assuming I can find the disks.
Jim Hale
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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 5:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Guest account

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 
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hale, Jim
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 5:52 PM
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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

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[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'
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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
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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.

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