Well, I do not have problems with XP Pro, but I do keep my desktop clean and don't let programs load a lot of self-starting garbage. I will however, admit that most users do not seem to be able to maintain their system. I guess it is a trade off; load everything automatically so the user does not have to make decisions, or make him decide for everything.
Of course you get things like this computer a neighbor brought over for me to fix. The inside looked like a used vacuum cleaner bag, when I got it cleaned up and ran AVG it found 38 viruses before it apparently removed a critical file and the system crashed. The hard drive seems to have had the head bounced off the platter, I am running a utility to find all the bad sectors and hopefully lock them out, otherwise it will need a new drive. It is a Windows machine so you expect things like that. Right? I don't know, would a Apple even have still been running in that kind of condition? keith_w wrote: > Jaume Lahuerta wrote: >> Ooops, that's too bad. I am (was?) considering moving to the Mac platform >> in order to avoid this kind of problems...(among other reasons). > > This is not a tale of "usual" Mac problems, it's a tale of one person's > problems. > >> ----- Mensaje original ---- De: David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: >> [email protected] Enviado: martes, 30 de octubre, 2007 9:52:45 Asunto: Major >> computer meltdown >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm unsubscribing for a little while so I can sort out my computer without >> my email account filling up. >> >> I was getting ready to install Leopard when the system decided to throw a >> tantrum and refuse to boot. My attempts to fix it failed miserably so I >> tried installing the new system over the top, and now I've been struck with >> what appears to be a common installation problem. The solution to remove >> all but the original RAM is no good because the computer came with a paltry >> 256Mb and the installer needs 512. >> >> After another evening's frustration I've managed to get a working base >> install of Tiger... >> >> - Dave > > And, to go with Leopard, you really ought to have a full Gig! > Today's Macs like lots of RAM! You really cannot get along very well on only > 512 MB of RAM. > > keith whaley > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
