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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Lin¿nut wrote on Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:43:53 -0600 Why not? :-) I just rescued my Linux system from a fate worse than...
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On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:52:34 -0800, windowsmvp
What's wrong with it is simple: it has Windows installed. Having worked with, supported, fixed and programmed for Windows since the days before 3.0 came out, there's few so-called "professionals" who know more about the care and feeding of Windows boxen than I do.
It so happens I do know what's wrong with it. I also happen to know that fixing it requires a reinstall. If Windows weren't so terminally braindead, I'd just do a reinstall-over-top, as has been done countless times on countless systems, thus repairing the damages whilst maintaining the user settings.
Of course, if Windows didn't have a completely retarded design, I could simply copy the user data and settings out of, say,home, reinstall the OS and apps, copy back the user data and settings, and everything would be back to normal - except it would work.
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Instead, most of the settings are buried in the registry, which is going to get wiped, because Windows is too retarded to even find itself on the drive, so won't do the usual "update without wipe".
Put this in perspective: in the last week, this box - mine, not the laptop - has had three different distros dropped on it. Despite this, I've maintained email client, news client, address book and other application settings. I simply drophome on another parbreastion (actually, on another drive, but a parbreastion works equally well) so such things live through a complete OS wipe and install cycle, including formatting the OS parbreastion.
You're such a bright lad, you explain to us how to make Windows store user settings in the user folders - eg My Documents - instead of the registry, so that when reinstalls are necessary, they don't involve a terminally annoying and completely pointless recovery of settings.
Oh, right, you can't - because the Windows design is completely and totally retarded, and nobody but MS can fix it, and they seem to think that this is a sane way to do things.
Gah. MVP indeed. Most Vacuous Pinhead, right?
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