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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (5311)	1/19/1999 9:09:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>Restoring a carefully tweaked system (and I tweak mine a lot) takes TONS of time For some reason everybody's missing the point. Could it possibly be MY explanation? ... naw <ggg>. I absolutely agree that restoring a tweaked environment is EXTREMELY time consuming (high cost). It is worth ongoing effort to be able to restore that quickly by my cost table, as well as everyone else that's weighed in on the subject. It takes me weeks to restore my working environment from scratch. I am NOT talking about a tweaked environment; I'm talking about a backup OS which is used ONLY for recovery and/or possibly other minor maintenance of the primary, was built with minimum components, and is rarely if ever updated. Spots PS. I work on two machines routinely, with, naturally, a third elsewhere in the house as backup <g>. Also domain controller. 'Swhy I'm building two ...