re: It's supposed to be a hobby, or leisure-time fun, you know
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 8:58 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2228 messages posted)
I was a software person back in the day (while employed, as opposed to this current
condition referred to as retirement), although when money was tight, I have built
my own personal PCs off and on for maybe 25 years now. Mostly now, when friends
/ relatives aren't mangling perfectly good systems, I play with the oldest of the
PnP hardware, and middling-old of MS' Windows OSes, and really old games from the
same early 32-bit days.
I still prefer Win2000 over anything newer or older, though. Carol (eldest son's
lady) has a loaner with W2K as its only OS, and she actually is doing fine with it.
I'd figured I would use Windows' own Transfer Settings function to make Windows
XP on the replacement HD work like she had hers working, but give her the chance
for W2K just as an option.
I think Dell is where the booby trap started from. She was so anxious about her
settings and files on the older PC that the current one replaced, that I cloned from
her old Hdd to a newer, larger one, then ran a Repair on the result in the replacement
machine (previous loaner I'd used, with Win2K, when I had anyone's PC over here for
more than a day at a time), so not really new.
I should've used the Transfer Settings function last year, and had her reinstall
the programs to match (I suppose I have it out of sequence, but I've done both things
a good number of times since I started playing with WinTel PCs).
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Kiwi
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On Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 8:43 am, Alan Masterman wrote:
>Kiwi, it's difficult to know where to start in all this.
>What on earth possessed you to try and instal a dual-boot system in the middle of
>fault-finding?
>Or did you swap out the hard drive because you suspected a hardware fault?
>Sounds like the kind of client that I would send away with the advice to re-instal
>from the beginning: highly unlikely that I could charge any realistic amount to
>sort it out. I understand you have to try, of course, it's your daughter-in-law.
> But still...
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