On 01/16/2014 05:47 PM, BillW50 wrote:
On 1/16Xer.
Oh bummer! There is always backup and restore. I always backup in case I
or Microsoft or somebody else makes a mistake.
Shouldn't really matter what it is used for if you made a backup first.
I was a sub-contractor. My friend owns a CNC repair business and tries
to sell all of his customers on backing up...but you know the story.
Now they have a very expensive "door stop">
SP3 works for most people, but not all.
That works sometimes. But now try getting an Atom Z670 running Windows 7
or 8 to run somewhat satisfactory. Sure you can get simple email,
newsgroups, and most web browsing just fine. But videos will never work
satisfactory.
I retired about a year ago and now do volunteer IT work for a local NPO.
For the last several months I have been going through their machines and
upgrading the hardware and installing Win7.
If the machine has at least a P-4 1.8ghz with 1 -2 gigs of RAM
it will work OK for running Microsoft Office. That's about all they need
to run. For the heavier use machines I've been saving the dual core
machines that are SATA and have 2- 3 gigs of RAM.
I have now taken on the task of maintaining their server. (SBS 2008)
The place who set it up pretty much did nothing during their initial
first year of "covered" service and now have quoted the organization
$18,000 for the 2014 contract.
I've already done more in the last month than they did in the first year.
They had it on a grossly undersized UPS and better still...the server
was not even plugged into the UPS protected outlet...it was on the
MOV-only output! sheesh
Wrong drivers for the backup drives.
Security software expired.
Windows updates not applied. etc
Although in general XP has been doing a good job for them part of the
reason I am trying to get the XP machines off-line is due to MSE no
longer being supported after April. It's the only free AV I know of that
does not require registration. Av's such as Avast are only free for home
use AFAIK.