-=PCTechTalk=- Windows annoyances WAS: Re: Re: Files and settings transfer wizard

After you restored the OS, did you then redo the wizard in the manner 
described in the article or did you just retrieve the files and 
settings you could get and manually finish the job?

Who cares about sidebars and variable window opaqueness when the 
system is such a PITA to use and maintain?

So many annoyances that I can't count them all but my most annoying is 
the stupidity of remembering a restore down window size but not a 
restore up window size and the lack of an option to have the system 
restart in the Safe mode or to setup instead of having to get the 
timing just perfect and punch the F2, F3 DEL, F8, F12 or gawd knows 
what other d^&* key to get there.

I think Bill Gates probably uses a Linux distro.  With his kinda money 
there is no reason for him to have to put up with the kinda crap we 
commoners have to deal with in Windows.

Didn't there used to be a website filled with Windows annoyances and 
ways to work around some of them?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:48 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Files and settings transfer wizard


> In my attempt, I ran the wiz and burned the results to a CD-RW.  I 
> then
> wiped the drive, installed the OS and directed the wiz to the 
> optical drive.
> Having a separate full manual backup (no compression or spanned 
> disks to
> worry about) is the only thing that saved me.  Did I mention it was 
> not my
> computer?        lol
>
> Peace,
> Gman
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don101" <don101@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:33 AM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Files and settings transfer wizard
>
>
>> Great!  I thought a wizard was supposed to lead you step by step
>> through a process.  The least it could have done is to prompt you 
>> to
>> see that article if you are migrating to a new install rather than 
>> a
>> new computer.
>>
>> For a person that does not want to dual boot, this wizard would
>> require installing a dual boot, run the wizard from the new 
>> install.
>> Run the wizard on the old install.  Run the wizard on the new 
>> install.
>> Delete the old install.  And if the new install was in a location 
>> that
>> was not desirable, say a second hard drive that was only temp
>> installed to run the wizard or a new partition that is not wanted,
>> then it would be necessary to do another install to the desired
>> location, run the wizard on the new new install, run the wizard on 
>> the
>> old new install, run the wizard on the new new install.  Then 
>> remove
>> the temp installed hard drive or delete the unwanted partition. 
>> What
>> a crock!!  In less time than it takes to do all that, a reasonably
>> incompetent oaf could just manually configure the settings and 
>> restore
>> files from a backup.
>>
>> Over a billion lines of code just to make more work for the end 
>> user.
>> And people wonder why I hate Micro$oft.
>>
>> Don
>
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