Re: To the Group
- From: "Mike Williams" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:44:37 +0100
"Pop`" <nodoby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:cKTHi.2710$ec2.1152@xxxxxxxxxxx
I wanted to let anyone who might care that I'm experiencing
"technical difficulties" that aren't going to be simple to get
around. I don't -think- I Picked up a worm or anything, but you never know.
Play about with your system and perhaps perform a system restore to a few different points in time but if in the end it all gets a bit too much then just ditch the whole lot and reformat your drive and start again from scratch. Fixes everything if you do it properly! It is very rare that you actually need to do this, but sometimes it can be very satisfying to start off with a brand new clean system. I've done it loads of times, on loads of systems (sometimes my own, but mostly those of friends and acquaintances). Make sure you save all your data first of course, especially your VB project files, and make sure you have the original CDs for Windows (and that they are ordinary standard full versions and not "updates") and your CDs for VB and for your various applications. Also make sure you know exactly what hardware you have (video card, sound card, modem, if you use one, etc) and that you have the drivers for all of them (although in virtually all cases you can download appropriate drivers if you don't have any). I don't know what system you have, or whether it comes with a "return to the out of box state" recovery CD, but if it does then it might be worth trying that first, working on the principle that it is very unlikely that whatever problem you have got has managed to invade your restore partition. As a last resort, wipe the disk completely, including the restore partition, and reinstall Windows from scratch and then reinstall all your applications. Then install some decent anti virus and anti spyware stuff and update it *before* you load all your data files onto the "new" machine. In order to get a ni ce clean disk to start with you'll need a decent partition editor. There's a very good freeware one at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828
At the above link you'll be able to download an ISO CD image of GParted. Use your favourite CD burner to burn the ISO to a disk and test it before you start. Personally I found the "earlier" versions in the middle of the list to be the easiest to use (although they are all really very simple when you've tried them a few times).
I know it sounds a bit rash to completely ditch your system and start again from scratch, but when you get used to it you'll find it really satisfying. A bit like having a shower and changing your underwear, really ;-)
Have fun ;-)
Mike
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