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Bill
My customer has had Vista for three months. He called me. Vista is in
an endless loop. The Windows Explorer fails repeatedly and restarts. If
you are lucky, the loop will last long enough to see that one of the anti
virus programs has identified a virus. It was too stupid to prevent the
virus from infecting the system. With a great deal of effort, I was able
to run msconfig from the task manager, but to no avail. Windows explorer
continues to fail repeatedly. I tried restoring to an earlier date.
This attempt also failed. The restore function is broken and the shadow
is not working correctly. It may have been broken by the virus, for all
I know. I tried restoring the system using F11, but the customer had
ignorantly formatted the restore partition (Compaq). There is no restore
cdroms. He didn't get any and he didn't make any. At this point, he can
order the restore disks from Compaq,
and
he can use his computer in the meanwhile with an installation of
PCLINUXOS.
I may tell him to try out Linux before ordering the disks.
A number of my customers have shown a great deal of excitement, when they
first see the Linux desktop. They find the gui easier to use than
Windows. Of course, I spend a little time setting it up for them.
an endless loop. The Windows Explorer fails repeatedly and restarts. If
you are lucky, the loop will last long enough to see that one of the anti
virus programs has identified a virus. It was too stupid to prevent the
virus from infecting the system. With a great deal of effort, I was able
to run msconfig from the task manager, but to no avail. Windows explorer
continues to fail repeatedly. I tried restoring to an earlier date.
This attempt also failed. The restore function is broken and the shadow
is not working correctly. It may have been broken by the virus, for all
I know. I tried restoring the system using F11, but the customer had
ignorantly formatted the restore partition (Compaq). There is no restore
cdroms. He didn't get any and he didn't make any. At this point, he can
order the restore disks from Compaq,
and
he can use his computer in the meanwhile with an installation of
PCLINUXOS.
I may tell him to try out Linux before ordering the disks.
A number of my customers have shown a great deal of excitement, when they
first see the Linux desktop. They find the gui easier to use than
Windows. Of course, I spend a little time setting it up for them.