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After retrieving some files off a disk for a mate i got a virus on my poota.....have got shot of the virus but all the writing on the desk top & everywhere else is all in symbols!!.....anybody know how to put it right??
like i said, i've only ever had hassles from it. although if it'd been on a machine i'd built myself it wouldn't have been filled with all the crash-causing junk that those machines were so i'm not blaming XP (well, not entirely) or saying it's bad, just that it's not for me.
XP is quite stable.. only hanged a few times cos of driver problems and such.
cookie monster wrote:
> Very_Metal wrote:
> buy a new hardrive
> install windows 2000
> retrieve your work from the previous drive
> throw XP away
> be happy.
>
> Ha, 2000 is inferior to XP.
depends on your point of view. XP is juuuust about patched enough to be good now, but it's FAR too weak and does too much stuff in the background for my liking. i was helping a friend fix his machine yesterday and the slightest large task made XP hang quite badly (although granted, i think he'd mucked about with some important stuff that wouldn't have helped) but i've had fairly crappy experiences of XP on several occasions, nothing i'd consider reliable enough to trust.
i've only had 2000 crash on me twice in a year, only one of those required a reboot as well, the other time i just booted a process and it was fine again.
if you're not bothered about games and want stability then 2k is the way to go, otherwise get XP, but get ALL the service packs/patches immediately.
> Very_Metal wrote:
> buy a new hardrive
> install windows 2000
> retrieve your work from the previous drive
> throw XP away
> be happy.
>
> Ha, 2000 is inferior to XP.
depends on your point of view. XP is juuuust about patched enough to be good now, but it's FAR too weak and does too much stuff in the background for my liking. i was helping a friend fix his machine yesterday and the slightest large task made XP hang quite badly (although granted, i think he'd mucked about with some important stuff that wouldn't have helped) but i've had fairly crappy experiences of XP on several occasions, nothing i'd consider reliable enough to trust.
i've only had 2000 crash on me twice in a year, only one of those required a reboot as well, the other time i just booted a process and it was fine again.
if you're not bothered about games and want stability then 2k is the way to go, otherwise get XP, but get ALL the service packs/patches immediately.
95 rocks.
Very_Metal wrote:
> buy a new hardrive
> install windows 2000
> retrieve your work from the previous drive
> throw XP away
> be happy.
Ha, 2000 is inferior to XP.
> buy a new hardrive
> install windows 2000
> retrieve your work from the previous drive
> throw XP away
> be happy.
Ha, 2000 is inferior to XP.
buy a new hardrive
install windows 2000
retrieve your work from the previous drive
throw XP away
be happy.
install windows 2000
retrieve your work from the previous drive
throw XP away
be happy.
Try going into safe mode. It may revert the fonts back to original so you can read where you're clicking.
would try that, but that's all symbols too!! can't read anything like that on there.
Right-click Desktop > Properties > Appearance > Advanced > Change font there.
After retrieving some files off a disk for a mate i got a virus on my poota.....have got shot of the virus but all the writing on the desk top & everywhere else is all in symbols!!.....anybody know how to put it right??