[mso] Re: Microsoft listening and Formatting hard drives
- From: "Greg Chapman" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 09:35:30 -0600
Well, I tried to bring things back on topic, first of all. I mean, why
else would I talk about development and directly reference *that*
particular, misunderstood GUID, eh?<g>
I avoid Vic's sterilization issue by using a free little tool from PC
Magazine called InCntrl. Does a nice job of snapshotting a system before
an install and then showing you diff output for the changes.
No need to knock wood. Just use your senses!
Greg Chapman
http://www.mousetrax.com
"Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11!
With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Linda F. Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 9:05 AM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Microsoft listening and Formatting hard drives
>
>
> Thanks a bunch for reporting our needs to Microsoft,
> Dian....we are glad we
> have YOU on our side :-)
>
> And P.S. ... As to the off-topic discussion about formatting
> a hard drive
> for a clean start...I've never had to do this either (Vic
> does it all the
> time, but I think he actually LIKES doing it LOL....plus he
> does a lot of
> testing of programs where he wants to be sure stuff works on
> default OS
> installs with no other software entries in the registry, so I
> guess this is
> the easiest way to do this)...another thing I've never had to do is
> rename/delete normal.dot cuz it was corrupt (and how many
> times do we hear
> THAT one?)....and how about reinstalling Office? I never do
> that either LOL
>
> My feeling is this is becuz I'm fanatical about backing stuff
> up in case I
> ever DO have to do any of the above....I'm sure, the one time
> I get lazy
> about backing up, is when I WILL have to do this...but, at
> this time, I have
> a gazillion CD coasters of old backups I've never had to use.
>
> KNOCKING ON WOOD LIKE A MANIAC HERE lol
>
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