... And that was fun.

[harmless]

After 6 weeks of wrangling with viruses, bad patches and a shitty OS I finally got my laptop running again.

I swear to (whatever deity you worship) that if I have to install this OS one more time this year, Imma gonna snap.


Anyhoo. Rant over.

Glad to be back, kinda missed you guys.

 

[TexazReece]

Glad to have ya back bud

 

[framedforlife]

Welcome Back!

 

[Denali n DOO]

Harmless is back ! Now you got some catchin up to do ! We hope you remain virus free for a long long time...

 

[CdnGMan]

I dunno... I kinda liked the quiet...

 

[Boricua SS]

welcome back...

 

[animal]

U been gone??? I thought it was kinda quite around here lately



J/K. Glad your back

 

[harmless]

Glad to have ya back bud

Welcome Back!

welcome back...

Thanks guys!

Harmless is back ! Now you got some catchin up to do ! We hope you remain virus free for a long long time...

All caught up already! I'm better protected this time, and it seems my backup image will actually be functional this time, which will seriously limit my next bout of down time. :wootwoot:

I dunno... I kinda liked the quiet...

U been gone??? I thought it was kinda quite around here lately

J/K. Glad your back

The only place on the planet where I enjoy the abuse.

Hey Greg, is that an electrical burning smell in the air?!? OH NO!!! Uhh... Oops.

 

[Canadian Mike]

Welcome back Stef!

I dunno... I kinda liked the quiet...

"That's funny, I don't care who you are!"

 

[The_Roadie]

I love reading about drama up in Canada. I'm so far from it.

Every time I think about Canada, I can't help but chuckle - the place that brought the world Rob Laidlaw and Vertical Scope. Destroyers of trailvoy and hundreds of other internet forums. :wootwoot:

 

[JRTAHOE]

Damn, Stef is back already? I'll have to whip up a better virus next time.

 

[harmless]

I love reading about drama up in Canada. I'm so far from it.

Every time I think about Canada, I can't help but chuckle - the place that brought the world Rob Laidlaw and Vertical Scope. Destroyers of trailvoy and hundreds of other internet forums. :wootwoot:

Hey now!!! That's not fair nor necessary. You can't lump us all into the same pile of poop as those two. We're not all like that!

Damn, Stef is back already? I'll have to whip up a better virus next time.

You're gonna have to do better than that to dethrone this thorn.

 

[DucatiSS]

After 6 weeks of wrangling with viruses, bad patches and a shitty OS I finally got my laptop running again.

I swear to (whatever deity you worship) that if I have to install this OS one more time this year, Imma gonna snap.


Anyhoo. Rant over.

Glad to be back, kinda missed you guys.

Didn't I just hear that Windows 8 is coming out?????

 

[RayVoy]

whatever deity you worship

What lodge?

 

[meerschm]

Think about putting Ubuntu on a USB stick. makes a handy backup, and ready to go. also makes it possible to save a few files not backed up in case your usual OS (Operating System, not the other OS) screws up.

 

[harmless]

Didn't I just hear that Windows 8 is coming out?????

NOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo. My laptop will never run that. Hell, it has a hard time with Vista. Shit. I miss the old DOS days.

What lodge?

Uhhhh... Whut?

Think about putting Ubuntu on a USB stick. makes a handy backup, and ready to go. also makes it possible to save a few files not backed up in case your usual OS (Operating System, not the other OS) screws up.

My brother mentioned that Ubuntu thing too... Dunno. I may be to old to learn that kind of stuff now. Or mebbe I just don't want to. LOL. I made images with Acronis and the whole program seems to work better than that Paragon shit that cost me two weeks of hell and lost data.

So hopefully, barring any unforseen poo poo, I should be covered now.

 

[WarGawd]

NOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo. My laptop will never run that. Hell, it has a hard time with Vista. Shit. I miss the old DOS days.

FWIW my brother is a network admin for a large Calgary museum, and runs a business on the side doing remote data backups for small business clients - he swears the hardware resource load of running Win7 is far less than that of Vista - maybe Win8 even improves upon that.

My brother mentioned that Ubuntu thing too... Dunno. I may be to old to learn that kind of stuff now. Or mebbe I just don't want to. LOL.

If you ever run into a snafu again, the guys I ALWAYS turn to when I have a complicated issue (my issues always are, I can solve most things myself) is MajorGeeks - group of very highly knowledgeable and helpful people much like many of those on this forum. Here's a link to my last thread with them, you will find some useful info in there about creating various bootable O/S's on both USB and CD:

Self Replicating "Application Data" Folder on External Drive?!? - MajorGeeks Support Forums

 

[harmless]

Wow. Imma gonna love trolling that forum!! Thank you! That'll help me help my clients!

I'm grabbing Puppy and Ubuntu for shits and giggles. Imma make a multi-boot USB stick that includes Acronis True Image.

Ubuntu looks entertaining as a Winblows alternative...

Glad I made my backups... It appears that I may end up breaking my OS yet again...