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Vista! >v<
18 years ago
Vista has le screwed me!
Ok you can stop your laughing now.
Recently though, it's been slow, I mean I didn't feel liek I was using it, more like I was sharing the Vista experience, and if I could get it to do what I wanted it to do when I was using it, so much the better.
Today I found out that Vista has some weird Kamikaze feature built into it.
I turned on my PC and POOF! Vista had gone away, it was gone, I didn't do anything, it was just gone.
I got a message saying "you must activate Windows" so I tried activating with the product key, and apparently I must've mis-typed it because it wouldn't activate.
So I tried re-installling and stopped it. Which corrupted the boot system, and it ca'nt repair it. So I gotta clean install agian.
I just got this really sick feeling, because I don't care much for the O/S but I really like the computer itself.
Anyway, that's the news. Vista has killed my inner child ;v;.
Helios
*EDIT 1346*
Ok HAL is saved. Did a re-install and Vista works agian.
So I go on my deskeop, and where did my files go? At that point my brain tells me "YOU IDIOT! YOU'RE RUNNING VISTA! YOUR FILES ARE FUCKING GONE!"
Well no real loss to me, and PC runs faster now. Just gotta re-install Office, Steam, and Orbiter and I'm good to go.
*EDIT 1547*
I saved my files becuase I rememberd the thing that separates PC's from Mac's.
IMPORTANT TIP FOR VISTA AND PC USERS AHEAD!
It's a little known fact that on a PC no data is really lost, which means that deleting a file dosen't actually get rid of it, unless you format your hard drives.
When you delete a file, there's a way to un-delete it (I have done that once) and if you know what you're doing in DOS you can recover anything that/s been corrupt.
On a Mac, if you delete a file, you run to the nearest computer store and pick up Norton Utilties for Mac, and come back only to have Norton say "YOU IDIOT! YOU'RE USING A MAC! THE FILE IS FUCKING GONE!"
For Vista users, if you have to re-install Vista, for whatever reason, everything you had to that point will be stored in a folder for safekeeping, that you can acess if you want.
I found said folder and I'm transferring some files to my External hard drive (which for whatever reason holds more memory than my entire PC) and I will delete the rest, as I don't think I'll be needing them anytime soon.
HAL is saved ^v^
*EDIT 0111 April 29 2007*
Vista will not quit here.
Now it want's ANOTHER product key, and mine won't work. I have 30 days.
I have 3 options.
1. Use a method to extend the trial date indefinatly, which is legit apparently due to a loophole in the Vista EULA
2. Ask my dad to get me a new product key, which is $216. He'll go beserk cause he assumes everything that happens to my PC is my fault, weither I did something or not.
3. DOWNGRADE to XP and do a clean install of Vista from there. I don't want to do this because it's a waste of time and money.
If worse ocmes to worse, I still have my laptop, but it has no video card!
And to top it off, I gotta find out how to get SL running with Vista agian, even though I may only have a month to use it!
*sniffs* I need a hug ;v;.
Ok you can stop your laughing now.
Recently though, it's been slow, I mean I didn't feel liek I was using it, more like I was sharing the Vista experience, and if I could get it to do what I wanted it to do when I was using it, so much the better.
Today I found out that Vista has some weird Kamikaze feature built into it.
I turned on my PC and POOF! Vista had gone away, it was gone, I didn't do anything, it was just gone.
I got a message saying "you must activate Windows" so I tried activating with the product key, and apparently I must've mis-typed it because it wouldn't activate.
So I tried re-installling and stopped it. Which corrupted the boot system, and it ca'nt repair it. So I gotta clean install agian.
I just got this really sick feeling, because I don't care much for the O/S but I really like the computer itself.
Anyway, that's the news. Vista has killed my inner child ;v;.
Helios
*EDIT 1346*
Ok HAL is saved. Did a re-install and Vista works agian.
So I go on my deskeop, and where did my files go? At that point my brain tells me "YOU IDIOT! YOU'RE RUNNING VISTA! YOUR FILES ARE FUCKING GONE!"
Well no real loss to me, and PC runs faster now. Just gotta re-install Office, Steam, and Orbiter and I'm good to go.
*EDIT 1547*
I saved my files becuase I rememberd the thing that separates PC's from Mac's.
IMPORTANT TIP FOR VISTA AND PC USERS AHEAD!
It's a little known fact that on a PC no data is really lost, which means that deleting a file dosen't actually get rid of it, unless you format your hard drives.
When you delete a file, there's a way to un-delete it (I have done that once) and if you know what you're doing in DOS you can recover anything that/s been corrupt.
On a Mac, if you delete a file, you run to the nearest computer store and pick up Norton Utilties for Mac, and come back only to have Norton say "YOU IDIOT! YOU'RE USING A MAC! THE FILE IS FUCKING GONE!"
For Vista users, if you have to re-install Vista, for whatever reason, everything you had to that point will be stored in a folder for safekeeping, that you can acess if you want.
I found said folder and I'm transferring some files to my External hard drive (which for whatever reason holds more memory than my entire PC) and I will delete the rest, as I don't think I'll be needing them anytime soon.
HAL is saved ^v^
*EDIT 0111 April 29 2007*
Vista will not quit here.
Now it want's ANOTHER product key, and mine won't work. I have 30 days.
I have 3 options.
1. Use a method to extend the trial date indefinatly, which is legit apparently due to a loophole in the Vista EULA
2. Ask my dad to get me a new product key, which is $216. He'll go beserk cause he assumes everything that happens to my PC is my fault, weither I did something or not.
3. DOWNGRADE to XP and do a clean install of Vista from there. I don't want to do this because it's a waste of time and money.
If worse ocmes to worse, I still have my laptop, but it has no video card!
And to top it off, I gotta find out how to get SL running with Vista agian, even though I may only have a month to use it!
*sniffs* I need a hug ;v;.
*mutters* damn Vista
*hugs hir XP system tight*
And SL won't work agian....I feel just soo awful right now
might be time for a downgrade