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Pastimes : Computer Learning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rrufff who wrote (34794)	6/16/2003 9:42:41 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110603

I don't know if I really need these updates To be frank and honest, this XP updating system and the XP update site in general look and sound like outright hazards to me right now. My recent posts give my POV, if it ain't broke don't try and fix it. If you have a firewall, plus other security like McAffe why update??? I've only used this Norton Ghost once, it was a successful recovery. Like a dumb newby I made later image copies of my drive with XP on it,(to my spare HD), and accidently overwrote the second span file of the original image... i.e. the sacred copy that didn't have all the XP update patches on it, or at least missing all the recent crapola. Easily done "Do you wish to overwrite Backu0001.gho" asks Norton Ghost. Yes I thought, I called this XP backup differently, WTF is "Backu0001.gho..??? Then mashing the "Y" for YES key like I only know how. Silly me, the second span file is automatically called "Backu0001.gho", and the earlier copy was overwritten. Anyway, I still have the June 12th CD-ROMS's and they were image checked OK and I will try another recovery with them, and another backup of that system onto the spare HD. Then go back to this latest XP version with all the patches and mess with it to see what happens... Well after I painted the garage, and let my family use the PC as is for a few hours. Fk Microcrap and all who sail in that tub. I SHALL prevail** -g- rgds, ps: My advice (the usual cautions apply to any advice from me), leave it for a few hours, maybe a few days. Then think it over for the best course of action re:- updates, patches, the whole MS caboodle