Re: Can't download SP2 -- IE 6 thinks I'm off-line!

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On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 21:37:50 -0800, "Rock" <rock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Seems common sense to me not to apply such an extensive
OS upgrade without having a backup. But then I have used a drive imaging
program for a long time and never make any changes to the system without
having a current image.

...It seems to me nothing that anyone says is going to have much of an impact
here. You are locked in to a certain way of thinking on this issue.

I know that as MVPs, you and Jupiter are constrained. You're not in
any position to acknowledge how poorly Microsoft manages its Windows
technical support.

Nevertheless, if you're seriously interested in helping users, you can
and should try to offer constructive suggestions even when there is no
good solution to a problem.

Over years, I have observed that when MVPs have no good solution to
offer they offer a bad one, and if I point out its flaws, they try to
make flaws, or the problem itself, my fault. This does the user no
good, and it generally does not even make the MVP look good.

The only really good idea that came up in this exchange was the use of
a partition management utility to create a backup partition. I came
up with that idea myself, although you evidently could have
contributed it from your own experience at the beginning. And from
that, you conclude that I am "locked in to a certain way of thinking"
and won't accept help? I don't think so.
.

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