here we go again, not even 4 months ago since I last had to restore my harddrive by using backup.
well, found out that although I had saved the cd-keys on some of my programs since last time this happened, unfortunately my Power Director program's cd-key was missing a block. To make matters worse, it wasn't registered. No alternative but to buy another one, but this time I made sure I had plenty of copies made of the cd-key of the upgraded PD-version 6. And went the extra mile to get a Back-up CD.
Other programs like IDM was no problem. Just copy&paste from my back-up drive, then use the rego. Surprisingly it works fine.
Tested the IDM super download speed on IE7pro, considering the PC came with version 5 it seemed prudent to upgrade. It has a cool version of showing the weather... and I so like new gadgets.
Oh what fun to reinstall everything... not!!!
problem was WXP got corrupted somehow. The backup couldn't fix it. Cold boots didn't fix it. It just got worse and it slowed heaps.
Unlike last time I'm not sure what happened, but this time the only solution was a little easier to decide.
Just hate doing it, that's all.
well, found out that although I had saved the cd-keys on some of my programs since last time this happened, unfortunately my Power Director program's cd-key was missing a block. To make matters worse, it wasn't registered. No alternative but to buy another one, but this time I made sure I had plenty of copies made of the cd-key of the upgraded PD-version 6. And went the extra mile to get a Back-up CD.
Other programs like IDM was no problem. Just copy&paste from my back-up drive, then use the rego. Surprisingly it works fine.
Tested the IDM super download speed on IE7pro, considering the PC came with version 5 it seemed prudent to upgrade. It has a cool version of showing the weather... and I so like new gadgets.
Oh what fun to reinstall everything... not!!!
problem was WXP got corrupted somehow. The backup couldn't fix it. Cold boots didn't fix it. It just got worse and it slowed heaps.
Unlike last time I'm not sure what happened, but this time the only solution was a little easier to decide.
Just hate doing it, that's all.
interesting, I thought of experimenting further with Microsoft Silverlight to
see what the fuss is about.
Yeeeeah. Worst OS to come out since Windows ME, and in some
ways I think ME was LESS of a pain in the ass. After my dad's machine went kaput and I had to wipe the harddrive, I spent a full year doing everything
imaginable to attempt to get XP Home back on his desktop and keep it running without crashing every 4-5 weeks to the extent it required another system wipe.
Drove me frigging bananas! After that I positively refused to upgrade to XP on my own machines and was happy as a clam (and kept them happily running along
without hiccups too!) using Win2K; only sucked it in for a new OS last December when my new laptop came with Vista, which I'm actually liking thus far.
Sorry about the crashes, Toa. That sucks.
