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Bye for now wish me luck ;-)
ReMan - 1/1/11 at 08:43 PM

After over 6 years i am going to format and reload Windows XP on the main home PC

Wish me luck, any last nuggets of advice?

(No Win 7 or Linux suggestions I can play them elsewhere)

Cheers

BenB - 1/1/11 at 08:46 PM

I have to say after recently getting a new laptop with Win7 it's blooming marvelous. Makes XP look complete shite! But good luck anyway, it's usually not too bad. But it's worth getting the service updates onto DVD and updating the XP box before going online otherwise it will get mullered before it update itself.

DRC INDY 7 - 1/1/11 at 08:48 PM

Good luck i have been useing windows 7 for a year now on the laptop its magic

RichardK - 1/1/11 at 08:52 PM

backup:

favourites
if you use outlook, pst files usually found Cocuments and SettingsusernameLocal SettingsMicrosoftOutlook and the outlook email history .nk2 file at Cocuments and SettingsusernameApplication DataMicrosoftOutlook
lan card or wireless drivers available?

Cant this of anything apart from the obvious... your data

Cheers

Rich

RichardK - 1/1/11 at 08:56 PM

Yeh, win 7 is good now I've got used to it (and done the win7 exam which helped!) particular like the way it indexes, eg. click start button and then just type any word, it will then display everything on your compy that contains that word, emails, pdf's etc.

Cheers

Rich

flibble - 1/1/11 at 09:29 PM

Been thinking of going for Win7 myself, only had a play on it breifly round a friends and couldn't find outlook express, is it there or does it use another email client? (sorry for Hijack )

Killer - 1/1/11 at 09:32 PM

quote:
Originally posted by flibble
Been thinking of going for Win7 myself, only had a play on it breifly round a friends and couldn't find outlook express, is it there or does it use another email client? (sorry for Hijack )


Uses windows live mail which needs to be downloaded from ms, tis good though.

Cheers

R

ReMan - 3/1/11 at 11:29 PM

I'm back

Email export-import fail, so had to improvise.
hours of updates to XP inc SP3 which i never had before, but it's working nice now

What did I miss?

thefreak - 4/1/11 at 05:33 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
I'm back

What did I miss?


The chance to move into the 2000s
I would have gone for the upgrade to 7 while you were at it, would have saved a lot of problems in the next 12 months

ReMan - 5/1/11 at 05:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by thefreak
quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
I'm back

What did I miss?


The chance to move into the 2000s
I would have gone for the upgrade to 7 while you were at it, would have saved a lot of problems in the next 12 months


I have 7 on a netbook as boughtbut don't have a legit copy of it. And have not needed to understand it's workings so I dont.

Also this PC only has 1G ram, which I beleive is a bit thin for 7..

Now I'm sorted it will do until I upgarde the Pc altogether

Cheers