Yesterday afternoon disaster hit....my user profile on my laptop got corrupted. While a first for me, after reading around a lot, it's not all that uncommon especially with Vista. After my initial panic and multiple reboots trying to get into my profile, I found out what I needed to do (create two new admin level profiles, one of which would become my new ID).
Five hours of copying all my user contents (24GB) to the new ID (using the second new one), then resetting up the things that didn't come over (default programs, desktop settings, start menu, quick launch - still working on those) and I was somewhat back in action. Any program that referenced data locations in my old user profile had to be changed to the new user name.
I am still having a lot of problems...things are missing or not working in Vista. Even though I have two good admin level profiles, a lot of commands just aren't responded to....other programs tell me they can't find the Windows installer and won't run (FrontPage is one of those). I need to run my Vista install disk and restore things but guess what is on its way to Baltimore. Yup...all my disks & manuals. LOL!
So, I am being very careful & cautious for the next two weeks till I can get what I need an hopefully get Vista back on its feet. I just wanted to post a warning, if I disappear - stop blogging and appearing in fthe fourms, then my laptop has bit the big one. Best I can do is add Stu as an author here and hope he can get in and post an update.
Next laptop is going to be a MAC....
Till next time - keep on rollin',
Froggi/Donna
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Word of Warning....
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4 fun, frank & friendly folks have posted comments:
Donna, Do you have any idea what caused your profile to be corrupted? I ask seriously because I'm also running Vista and don't want this to happen to me. I'd like to prevent it if at all possible. Good luck getting everything working again.
Brenda
I have Vista on my laptop but won't put it onto this desktop machine. I even have a never installed copy of XP Pro that I may end up putting on the desktop. I also have a full copy of Office Pro 2007 that I've never installed. I think it will all work under XP but bought it to get back to using Outlook for email as my Outlook XP wouldn't run under Vista. If I do go back to XP on the laptop, I'll just sit on the newer version of Office as it is quite different from the older ones and I'm not sure that I want to spend that much time learning how to use it. But I doubt that I'll ever go to a Mac.
I had the same thing happen. I was advised VISTA is still not workable with a lot of software (outlook) so installed XP. I've not had any more problems. You're very computer savvy, good job. My next computer on the road will be MAC.
Good luck
Dee
The whole world is waking up to the fact that things just work on a Mac. It's partly because Apple controls the whole widget from OS to hardware to applications. But it's also because it runs the Unix operating system. Windows OS was never intended to be a networked or multiuser computer system. It was intended to be a Personal Computer, so no need to worry about protecting it from other users or the outside world. Unix was always intended to be a shared system, so security was designed in. Now that MacOSX (Apple's OS) is a Unix operating system, it's the most robust and secure OS on the planet. Take my word for it, I've been building, installing and maintaining computers since the late 70s.
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