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I'm convinced that if you want to avoid computer problems you should
just leave a computer as it was shipped from the manufacture. Never
install new programs, never download anything, just leave the damn
thing alone. If you have problems just run the recovery discs that you
received with the thing and turn it back into new condition. Then heed
the above advice.

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"Ringmaster" wrote
I'm convinced that if you want to avoid computer problems you should
just leave a computer as it was shipped from the manufacture. Never
install new programs, never download anything, just leave the damn
thing alone. If you have problems just run the recovery discs that you
received with the thing and turn it back into new condition. Then heed
the above advice.

I agree about a thousand percent. When I put the new hard drive in my HP Pavillion last week
I used the recovery CDs to format it and put it back to when it was new. It booted up in less than
fifteen seconds and shut down in about five seconds. Now, since I put Service Pack II and about
60 hotfixes and critical patches from Microsoft back it's getting back to a snail's pace.
I really do think when you get all those patches and then get an anti virus program and a spyware
program and an adaware program it makes your hard drive work all the time. It wears it slap out.
But, worse it makes it so slow that it aggravates you. And microsoft and Moxilla are at war. Don't
put any Firefox stuff on because it's written to sabotage IE and vice versa.
I got rid of the anti virus and the spyware and the adware and firefox and its better but not as
good as it was when it was fresh from the recovery disks. Pretty soon, I'm gonna end up taking your
advice.
I'll just save all pictures and data to CDs and do the recovery disk trick again. Then I won't put any
of the microsoft updates and security patches back on. If I get a virus, I'll just do the recovery disk thing
again.
I wish they'd make a laptop with two hard drives. A big one for all the pictures, songs, movies
and other data and all the add on programs to be saved there and a small one for Windows or
some other operating system. That way when it got all virused up and corrupted and bogged down
all you'd have to do is reinstall the operating system. One disk could be firewalled from the other
so it would stay safe.

Cheers,
Ellen

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"Ringmaster" wrote in news:1165618072.908817.275410@
73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com:

I'm convinced that if you want to avoid computer problems you should
just leave a computer as it was shipped from the manufacture. Never
install new programs, never download anything, just leave the damn
thing alone. If you have problems just run the recovery discs that you
received with the thing and turn it back into new condition. Then heed
the above advice.

A better way to avoid computer problems is not to use a computer;-)

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"Ringmaster" wrote in message
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I'm convinced that if you want to avoid computer problems you should
just leave a computer as it was shipped from the manufacture. Never
install new programs, never download anything, just leave the damn
thing alone. If you have problems just run the recovery discs that you
received with the thing and turn it back into new condition. Then heed
the above advice.



I hope that includes never taking it out of the box.

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"j" ganz @@
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"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in message
reenews.net...

"Ringmaster" wrote
I'm convinced that if you want to avoid computer problems you should
just leave a computer as it was shipped from the manufacture. Never
install new programs, never download anything, just leave the damn
thing alone. If you have problems just run the recovery discs that you
received with the thing and turn it back into new condition. Then heed
the above advice.

I agree about a thousand percent. When I put the new hard drive in my
HP Pavillion last week
I used the recovery CDs to format it and put it back to when it was new.
It booted up in less than
fifteen seconds and shut down in about five seconds. Now, since I put
Service Pack II and about
60 hotfixes and critical patches from Microsoft back it's getting back to
a snail's pace.

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I don't think you should have tried to do that on a HP computer. They do not
want you to. In common with IBM, Compaq and some others they have secret
files and their own stuff all mixed up on the disk with the operating
system. That is why they only give you their own setup disk instead of the
original disks for Windows (or whatever) operating system. If you have the
original system disks you can wipe your drive and reinstall everything and
get going easily again if you hit a problem, always provided that you keep
the 'C' drive for programmes for which you have the disks and keep all your
personal files on another drive.
Works for me anyway.