-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Windows annoyances WAS: Re: Re: Files and settings transfer wizard
- From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:03:51 -0400
Doing my sytem manually wasn't that difficult and heck I don't know what I'm
doing, lol.................but I do have the choice of doing it at my own
speed too. I realized that if I'd given my pc to someone to do
it............how would they know which files I want moved over????
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 3:31 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Windows annoyances WAS: Re: Re: Files and
settings transfer wizard
> Don,
> I redid the entire system manually. There was no way that I could take
> a chance on having the Wiz mess up the new install when the customer was
> expecting the system returned soon.
>
> To restart in Safe Mode:
> Open MSConfig, click on the option for a Diagnostic Startup and click OK.
> You'll be prompted to reboot and it'll take you directly to Safe Mode.
> Just
> remember to return the selection to its usual position afterwards.
>
> These days, there are TONS of websites like that. The one you're
> thinking of is below.
>
> http://www.annoyances.org/
>
> 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 9:09 AM
> Subject: -=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?
>
>
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