Re: alcan A or a dropper?
- From: "cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" <cquirkenews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:09:27 +0200
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:57:01 -0700,<thunderstruck302...
What if I'm wiling to get rid of it myself? I will get rid of it, but like
those people I found on google, I need a little instruction as to what I have
to do.
This is where everyone looks at the floor and shuffles uncomfortably.
Yes, it's possible and I do this sort of thing all the time. It's
more difficult than it should be, because as at October 2006, MS
hasn't seen the need to provide the tools you need.
Fortunately, others have - but they can't make it as easy as it should
be. Google( Bart PE ) and you will find the free builder,
documentation, user forums, and plugins that allow you to wrap many
Windows-based tools so they can be used from Bart.
Make sure you Google( RunScanner ) too, as that plugin is the key to
accessing the HD installation's registry. Without that, any tool that
cares about the registry (AdAware, HiJackThis, most NirSoft) are going
to operate relative to the Bart CDR registry instead.
Because it's "so difficult", few of us can muster the effort to begin
to explain how to do it, and most just pretend it can't be done.
Then you get advice to give up, nuke and rebuild. The flaw there is
the assumption that this is easier, which it may not be if you are to
build a system that is not as open to attack as last time, and that it
will keep you clean - which it is unlikely to do.
Most such advice comes from the norms of professional IT, which is to
consumer system care as vetinarians are to doctors.
To the pro IT dudes, workstations are just dumb beasts of burden -
only servers matter, in terms of preserving their contents. If a
workstation gets bent, you just kill it and start over - just as a vet
would tell you "it's not worth the cost of trying to fix Rover's
illness, just put him down and get a new dog".
In contrast, a consumer-orientated approach recognises that the PC
represents the entire "IT infrastructure" to the consumer - it's
unique, invariably not backed up properly, and losing it has the same
impact as a business losing the contents of all their servers and
workstations at once. There are no handy up-to-date system images or
backups; if you "just" wipe and rebuild, you get a system back, but
it's not yours. It's like a doctor saying "well, granny's too costly
to fix, se we'll let her go... I can get you a replacement from the
night shelter, there are plenty of unclaimed pensioners there"
See also my blog, where mOS issues abound...
http://cquirke.blogspot.com
....as well as my less-up-to-date formal web site...
http://cquirke.mvps.org
....these may be good starting points...
How to Design a mOS:
http://cquirke.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-design-mos.html
Repairing Safe Mode and Windows XP firewall (page down...):
http://cquirke.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_cquirke_archive.html
Reclaiming your PC:
http://cquirke.mvps.org/exblog/reclaim.htm
Apply the tips from "How to Design a mOS" to these...
Bart PE builder, including download, instructions etc.:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Bart plugins:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/plugins/
Bart plugin format, i.e. how to build your own:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/help/english/pluginformat.htm
Bart's nu2menu (XML-driven UI) documentation:
http://www.nu2.nu/nu2menu/
The crucial RunScanner plugin:
http://www.paraglidernc.com/RunScanner.html
Bart PE forums, which are web-based "newsgroups" like this:
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showforum=30
It may not be "on a plate" but it's all there, and there's a large and
friendly developer community for Bart PE, in the same way that MS's
current sphincteric licensing means there is not for MS WinPE.
What a missed opportunity was MS WinPE... it should be the obvious
choice as mOS, but it's been sidelined as too primitive, unavailable,
and poorly-supported in terms of free 3rd-party/user resources.
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