Re: Windows XP - What you'll miss about Vista
David;732729 Wrote:
> Yes, no question some Win installations cry out for a do-over, but for
> me, it's not been necessary. Also, I have so many programs that it would
> literally take more than 2 8 hour days to re-install everything and even
> then, it's not likely that I would manage to get all the patches for
> each program. I see no point in doing an image, as if a reload is
> necessary, I wouldn't want to put everything back, including the detrius
> that accumulates. and yes, for those not able to maintain windows w/o
> reloading, I understand that for them, it's the only way they can
> recover a usable system. I DO have plenty of redundant backups of all
> the data, both on CD's and an external drive, so if the HDD takes a
> dump, I won't have a nervous breakdown.. 
>
> Dave
Only 2 days? Then you're one of the lucky ones. On my old systems that
used XP (including "Venus", before I loaded Vista onto her, and before
her motherboard died and was upgraded to "Prometheus"), a reload took
about 2 weeks to get back to the levels of that I liked. When I factor
in all the applications, drivers, settings, tweaks and restoring
backups, it turned out to be a monstrous task. Which is why I usually
left it for the December breaks when I could do it without impacting on
work.
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you die, so shall I be Reborn...-
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