After trying to save my Windows XP installation as it was, I decided that its just ttoo hard on the head to figure out what’s wrong, since I don’t have all the problems layed out to me in a nice little /etc directory that I can edit with my text editor (going to learn vi some day, too). I’m sure that its as simple as that if you know where to look, but Windows makes it far too cryptic to really figure out what’s going on inside your computer. So, I’ll do what their own techs would have recommended as a fix after soaking me for several hundred dollars on my credit card over the phone with someone who’s command of my own language would be limited and their command of Windows XP even more limited. I’m wiping the whole drive and reinstalling Windows. Lets see if this will fix the issues.
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Your approach is the best way! In fact, in your original entry I took the
meaning of “reinstall” to mean wipe out and start from a clean hard drive.
Good luck with it!
hah hah. Second best, actually. If I installed Debian, that would be best! Mwahahahaha!!!!!
Yes, install Debian, use a KDE Windows XP Theme manager, and get WINE to
I am kidding of course. That was must my
run (invisibly underneath the hood of course) all the window apps they
would use anyway. Then when they download a Windows program and doesn’t run,
when approached about this problem you can shrug your shoulders in fake
perplexion. “It must be a bad executable!” Mwahahahahaha!!!! Whos the most
evil of them all now?
long winded way of agreeing, that yes, Debian would be technically ‘the best’.
Reinstalling XP is the only way to fix a lot of issues. If you have a huge HD as a spare somewhere, try to ghost it when you get done so you don’t ever have to do it again. I have a 750 GB drive inbound and that’s what I’ll be doing. In fact, all the non-Windows OS stuff will reside on that drive so that the ghost image will be as small as possible. I say ghost, but any full-drive backup will work.
Wow technical stuff is this a project for your home corey? And I thought getting alinux version to work an an ancient compaq was going to be difficult.
Getting Windows installed is almost always harder to do on a Pentium 3 or newer. XP is better than its predecessors in that respect, but there are still driver issues. I don’t know what it was in my system that was causing the problems, but wiping the drive and reinstalling a fresh copy of XP fixed it (but Debian would have been better!)