Strange computer crash...

[RonG777]

Just to give you a little background here:
My wife just got done with her school, (she got her associates degree), and one online class she did was a basic computer type class..

One assignment she had to do was to use system recovery on her computer, she followed every step, and when she was finished, her entire OS turned to junk. Could not load up. (Safe mode or whatever).

Messed with it yesterday, finally had to re-install XP. I guess the only good thing that came out of it was that the teacher gave her an "A" (maybe he felt bad in a way for trashing the computer..*joking*)

Now all I have left to do on it is to deal with Microsoft and get a new download for Office 2003...

...yep, she bought it...just wished she ordered a disk instead of a download..

I still wonder how a simple restore point trashed the OS? unless the restore point was corrupted.

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[Nikolaus]

*chokes with his Cola while trying to laugh*

Ok, first of all, let his be a disclaimer. I really don't want to go to jail.
In the following post I will be talking about some inexistent operating system whom we shall call, let's say, "Doors Experience". This product is not related in any way to any actual existent operating system. Any similarities in name, behaviour or anything else for that matter are totally unintentional and purely coincidental. Please don't sue me. Also, the following facts represent my own opinion upon the Doors EXP operating system, and they may be nowhere near any real facts.

I have been working as a SysAdmin, IT service, Call Support and stuff like that for my entire life. Actually, I may have been born straight onto a keyboard. At the moment I install about 10 systems per day, so I dare claim I have somewhat of an experience with computers.
During all these years of skirmishing around with Doors EXP, I have noticed that there is more pleasure in bashing my head on concrete walls than there is in using System Restore. Also, headbashing may actually produce some results as opposed to using System Restore.

True, in a perfect world, where there are no such things as viruses, spyware, addaware, keyloggers, browser highjackers, bad disk sectors, temperamental hard disk drives, null errors, read errors, write errors, bad clusters, electrical interferances, surface damage, solar spots, tsunamis, war, famine and earthquakes, in such a perfect world, I was saying, System Restore may very well work as intended.

In our faulty world however, System Restore is just a usless string of bytes, worth just about as its own weight in Bat Guano, or 116% of its weight in canine excrements. Prices may vary, taxes may apply depending on local law system.
Of course, it's our fault this world ain't that perfect, thus it's our fault System Restore fails to perform as expected.

Bottom line.
If IT-Techies don't actually use it, it may just mean that they must be on to something.

[Epholl]

I do not even bother trying to do anything with the restore points... Sometimes the simpliest solutions are the best, so I vote for "format c:"

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[Nikolaus]

well, there is something you should do with restore points.

turn'em off! as i've said in some other post...

...Restore points are evil in its most pure and refined form. Viruses like to breed in there and snuggle close to eachother, while neither you, nor your antivirus can touch them.

[Tic]

I once did that when my PC got messed up... Guess what? I had to format HDD! Never try to repair,
reinstall or whatever with windows, once it breaks something only solution is to formad and reinstall
everything...