Re: BILL GATES

From: Jeff (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:22:15 -0700

You must not be a very good IT professional then. I have
followed the pre-install steps for XP SP2 and have
installed it on 2 of my 3 personal computers (1 is W2K),
60 work computers (only 25 left to do) and on 3 friends
computers. I have had no problems at all with it. I made
sure each computer was prepared and the installation of
SP2 went smoothly and the systems are running with no
problem. I feel sorry to those that you told them not to
install SP2. Also I didn`t have 3 pages to read over for
preparing the computers, all I had to do was read one
page, then I created a pre-install checklist and used that
when updating each computer.

Jeff

>-----Original Message-----
>Nowhere did I say it was 'difficult! I can follow the
instructions just
>fine. My point is I shouldn't have to follow three pages
of instructions to
>be able to install it, jump through more pages of
instructions on setting it
>up followed by hours retweaking and configuring my
computer the way I like
>it!
>
>That aside - I did follow the instructions ONE time and
it rendered a
>perfectly good, VERY well maintained, system worthless to
the point of not
>even booting past the BIOS splash screen.
>
>Just last evening I sent a mass emailing telling clients,
regarding sp2, -
>"If it (your computer) ain't broken, don't fix it"!
>
>
>"Bruce Chambers" <bruce_a_chambers@h0tmail.com> wrote in
message
>news:O36ZgMSmEHA.3632@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Jack wrote:
>> > How???? do you deduce that I don't keep a maintained
computer from
>> > what I wrote! Answer - You can't! A matter of fact
is that
>> > keeping over 200 client's home and small office
computers
>> > maintained is what I do for a living!
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> Then you certainly shouldn't find the routine
preparations for
>> installing a service pack particularly complicated.
Your posts are
>> not consistent and are, in fact, mutually exclusive.
You cannot
>> possibly be an IT professional, making a living in the
business, *and*
>> find preparing for a service pack installation
difficult.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bruce Chambers
>>
>> Help us help you:
>> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>
>> You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever
count on
>> having both at once. - RAH
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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>

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