Another God Damn Problem

[Paladin9]

I boot up my pc today and XP went back to its defalt settings like i just installed it.  Defalt desktop picture, defalt theme, defalt start menu, i lost all my ie favorites, and so on...   How do i get my shit back the way i liked it???????

[Paladin9]

Actually, the fucking computer logged in as the administator account and not my normal account.  when i went to the user contol panel, it does not list that account but the folder is still there with all my crap.  What the hell???

[xyle_one]

i hate xp.

[KernelPanic]

fdisk + windows partition = solution

[Refalm]

quote:Paladin9: I boot up my pc today and XP went back to its defalt settings like i just installed it. Defalt desktop picture, defalt theme, defalt start menu, i lost all my ie favorites, and so on... How do i get my shit back the way i liked it???????

You can't... Bill Gates probably hates you, and therefore has deleted your settings.

[rtgwbmsr]

Throw XP out of your Windows, and get a real OS. That's the only long term solution.

www.linuxiso.org
www.lycoris.com
www.mandrake.com
www.redhat.com

[ January 02, 2003: Message edited by: The Muffin Man ]

[Doctor V]

quote:Originally posted by The Muffin Man:
Throw XP out of your Windows, and get a real OS. That's the only long term solution.

www.linuxiso.org
www.lycoris.com
www.mandrake.com
www.redhat.com

[ January 02, 2003: Message edited by: The Muffin Man ]

I couldn't agree more.  XP is not a good OS, there are many perfectly good OSes out there that outperform windows XP but just don't have the benefit of Microsoft's marketing.  Any of the links above should suffice.

[dawsonmd]

I suggest Debian GNU/Linux

[Calum]

not to replace xp surely? more like lycoris, mandrake or suse you'd think?

those still using windows xp might find this interesting

[solo]

or dive into slackware like i did. you must have patience and be a self learner if you have no unix/linux experience.

[solo]

or dive into slackware like i did. you must have patience and be a self learner if you have no unix/linux experience.

Edit: sorry but for some reason it told me i couldnt post within 60 seconds so i waited 60 seconds and posted but it end up it did post... FORGIVE ME I HAVE SINNED

[ January 03, 2003: Message edited by: Solo ]

[RudeCat7]

Life is really boring with Suse (in a good way)!

However, at work they ask me to help with their windows problems....Just trying to get win98 to boot in normal mode is a chore!

Did you know that 98 may never boot normally by just pressing the reset, but if you flip the power switch on and off it actually makes a difference?

This guy still doesn't back up his shit! and forget about trying Linux....even though all he does is read e-mail....you should see the problems he has just getting his e-mail with outlook.


Which reminds me....does k-mail or any other linux client import outlook contacts and all that shit?

[pkd_lives]

You can export outlooks' address book into a text file. Which you should be able to import into another good mail application (just don't use the M$ outlook version of exporting the file - this does not even work properly with outlook).

The only problem is making sure the import reads the fields correctly, which should not be a problem.