Re: How will XP run on this machine?

From: David Candy (.)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:03:51 +1100

You have never owned a hammer I take it. Hammers can do any task. I LOVE hammers. 

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"Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message news:%23uR9UrYCFHA.4008@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> In news:Xns95F1C84B55DCFidispcom@216.196.97.142,
> DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@a.d.e.l.p.h.i.a..n.e.t> typed:
> 
>> Ron Martell <ron.martell@gmail.com> wrote in
>> news:2hj201dmsqt228oe67nrcg6q2b15tp9i6k@4ax.com:
>>
>>> "Vagabond Software" <carlfenley-X-@-X-san.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> Bad advice.  Dangerously bad.  Never repeat never disable 
>>> System
>>> Restore unless you consider your entire hard drive contents to 
>>> be
>>> totally disposable with no need for recovery of anything.
>>
>> well i guess i do what should never, ever, be done. i ALWAYS 
>> turn off
>> the system restore, and leave it off. (I think this opinion 
>> comes from
>> Windows Me, which introduced the 'System Restore', and insisted 
>> that i
>> had a hidden  directory on the root of the c drive named 
>> _RESTORE.)
>>
>> from what i've read here, it a 50-50 shot on whether or not 
>> doing a
>> system restore will fix whatever ails you.
> 
> 
> Although System Restore is unfortunately not perfect, and 
> sometimes doesn't work at all, it works *way* more than 50% of 
> the time.
> 
> It's not the solution to all problems, of course, and even if it 
> works the way it's supposed to, it may not fix your problem.
> 
> But so what. There's no tool that fixes all problems, and that's 
> why it's good to have multiple tools in your tookit. A hammer 
> won't fix a loose screw, but it's still a good idea to own a 
> hammer as well as a screwdriver.
> 
> System restore has gotten me and many others I know out of 
> trouble many times. Perfect or not, as far as I'm concerned, it's 
> simply foolhardy to turn it off.
> 
> -- 
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup 
> 
>

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