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Micro$hite Fartows XP strike back! Rant!
BillieTheBot
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Fucking Micro$hite, fucking fartows crap, you stupid piece of shite OS...
Basically the little fucker decide to freeze, crash and on reboot lose all my fucking settings, all my bookmarks for IE and firefox, all my desktop content, give me the welcome to windows XP shite and all...
What a fucking piece of junk...
It's realy worth having a legal version with all their fucking updates...
Now will have to go and try to recover all the stuff this piece of junk make me lose... including obviously my current work that was sitting on my desktop and the content on My Documents... thankfully all my work unless new job is sitting on an other HD...
Rant done!
Basically the little fucker decide to freeze, crash and on reboot lose all my fucking settings, all my bookmarks for IE and firefox, all my desktop content, give me the welcome to windows XP shite and all...
What a fucking piece of junk...
It's realy worth having a legal version with all their fucking updates...
Now will have to go and try to recover all the stuff this piece of junk make me lose... including obviously my current work that was sitting on my desktop and the content on My Documents... thankfully all my work unless new job is sitting on an other HD...
Rant done!
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Make some backups. Even if its to another drive, it doesn't take more than 5 mins.
Second, how did all your files disappear? have you tried a search? Its quite rare for files to vanish unless you got a virus.
And finally, if you dont want to sound silly, please dont try a play on the words Microsoft or use any $'s. thats so.... 1990's :P
I've never had any problems whatsoever with XP, maybe the problem lies with with the HD, especially if the OS has been there for years without proper maintenance. The registry can easily become corrupted and problems will arise.
Well the OS has been installed few months only and I do maintenance on it ever week and do updates and all... That crash never happend to me often, but I have it at least once a year... annoying... anyway, was just pissed off when it happends so needed to rant...
xp is as stable as houses for me
You are lucky... also for my work I have a lot of application that get tested and developed on my system, so it might fuck windows here and there...
probly a bit of blame on all sides
Yep... was mainly ranting, and well not a big fan of Bill, but mainly on a professional point of view, otherwise I think windows is ok and quite user friendly for home user and office use... not so good for research and development tho imo...
I thought so too
You are one of the lucky ones!
Mine has died in big fuckstyle a few times. I would also like to know how you people propose I back up about... ooh.. 85gb of data?
I can't afford another HDD, which will just shit there, unplugged when I am not backing up.
10 dual layer dvd discs?
It would be CHEAPER to buy another hard disk.
20 single layer dvdr at 30p each is exacly £6.00 (90GB), an 80GB hard disk is about £40
What do you have thats 85GB? movies and mp3's? Well then back them up to dvdr.
That way your movies are archived. If your hard drive blows up, it dont matter one bit, they are on dvdr.
I backup all my media files every few months, but my personal files and uni work get archived every few days to a usb drive, and every week to cd. Those are the important files. And yes, I backup my bookmarks and taskbar icons.
To anyone who reads this post, please backup all your files and photos. Then date the cd/dvdr and put it in a binder. I had a friend who lost his dad's holiday photos for the last few years (they go on holiday a couple of times a year).
Losing data is like having a housefire, you really feel gutted.