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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: Paladin9 on 2 January 2003, 23:21

Title: Another God Damn Problem
Post by: Paladin9 on 2 January 2003, 23:21: 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???????
Title: Another God Damn Problem
Post by: Paladin9 on 2 January 2003, 23:32: 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???
Title: Another God Damn Problem
Post by: xyle_one on 3 January 2003, 00:40: i hate xp.
Title: Another God Damn Problem
Post by: KernelPanic on 3 January 2003, 01:20: fdisk + windows partition = solution
Title: Another God Damn Problem
Post by: Refalm on 3 January 2003, 01:40: 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.
Title: Another God Damn Problem
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 3 January 2003, 02:24: Throw XP out of your Windows, and get a real OS. That's the only long term solution.

www.linuxiso.org (http://www.linuxiso.org)
www.lycoris.com (http://www.lycoris.com)
www.mandrake.com (http://www.mandrake.com)
www.redhat.com (http://www.redhat.com)

[ January 02, 2003: Message edited by: The Muffin Man ]
Title: Another God Damn Problem
Post by: Doctor V on 3 January 2003, 05:05: 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 (http://www.linuxiso.org)
www.lycoris.com (http://www.lycoris.com)
www.mandrake.com (http://www.mandrake.com)
www.redhat.com (http://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.
Title: Another God Damn Problem
Post by: dawsonmd on 3 January 2003, 16:55: I suggest Debian GNU/Linux
Title: Another God Damn Problem
Post by: Calum on 4 January 2003, 06:45: not to replace xp surely? more like lycoris, mandrake or suse you'd think?

those still using windows xp might find this interesting (http://belg88.com/faqman/index.php?op=cat&c=5)
Title: Another God Damn Problem
Post by: solo on 4 January 2003, 08:44: or dive into slackware like i did. you must have patience and be a self learner if you have no unix/linux experience.
Title: Another God Damn Problem
Post by: solo on 4 January 2003, 08:46: 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 ]
Title: Another God Damn Problem
Post by: RudeCat7 on 4 January 2003, 21:07: 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?
Title: Another God Damn Problem
Post by: pkd_lives on 4 January 2003, 21:31: 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.