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An alien ate your computer
worker201:
Well, it seems like it wasn't really a system file that ate itself, but the hard drive dying. It appears that we have full recovery, and a new laptop hard drive. Lovely consumer shit, I suppose. Personally, I wouldn't buy a Compaq laptop at Best Buy, but then it wasn't my decision to make.
During the rebuilding of the system, I was asked to download 49! Windows updates. One of which was the Genuine Advantage crap, so I only installed 48! updates.
Also, FYI, it has been made clear to me that there will be NO changing Operating Systems, and THAT's FINAL. Alrighty then. As I explained earlier, I guess I understand.
hm_murdock:
Did you mock him?
"Dew wiw be no changing of oberatin syschums and dat iz teh fynal"
GenuineAdvantage:
That's what you get when bothering to mention wiping the windows. I never bother, I just throw in a Limited Account and vaguely mention that it's safer. If they ask why I'll answer, but usually it they don't. Screw people, they're on their own. If they ask for help regularly after disregarding advice, I'll do it when I do it. My dad did want linux installed though, strangely enough.
mobrien_12:
ISAPNP.... very strange considering that windows XP dropped support for the ISA bus and so would have absolutely no need for an ISA PNP system.
Windows 2000, however would.
I guess this is just one more example of how the MSOS is kludged from it's previous versions.
worker201:
--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---ISAPNP.... very strange considering that windows XP dropped support for the ISA bus and so would have absolutely no need for an ISA PNP system.
Windows 2000, however would.
I guess this is just one more example of how the MSOS is kludged from it's previous versions.
--- End quote ---
So probably they removed the functionality, but some other internal framework called it, probably for future functionality that was cancelled. So rather than rewrite the functions that called it for no apparent reason, they left a deprecated file in their core code base. And even though it has no real function, it's still a required system file.
That's fucking ridiculous.
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