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Title: Oh...........poo.
Post by: an0n on March 13, 2004, 01:23:20 pm: Here's a hint: When using XP and you accidentally restart it in SafeMode instead of normal booting, suddenly cutting the power so you can prevent the Safe-Mode restart and get into a normal boot quicker is NOT a good idea.

I just did it and it's destroyed all my settings. All the files are fine, but my desktop is blank (despite all the files actually being there), it's lost all my pass's, my display settings, my internet connection and pretty much everything else.

So, in short: ****.
Title: Oh...........poo.
Post by: kasperl on March 13, 2004, 01:40:38 pm: ....and have a nice day.
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Post by: Flipside on March 13, 2004, 01:43:02 pm: Thats.....odd

Tried a rollback to before the problem?
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 13, 2004, 01:50:12 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Flipside
Thats.....odd

Tried a rollback to before the problem?

I see that ASDA's subliminal messages are working.
Title: Re: Oh...........poo.
Post by: Thorn on March 13, 2004, 01:52:16 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
Here's a hint: When using XP and you accidentally restart it in SafeMode instead of normal booting, suddenly cutting the power so you can prevent the Safe-Mode restart and get into a normal boot quicker is NOT a good idea.

I just did it and it's destroyed all my settings. All the files are fine, but my desktop is blank (despite all the files actually being there), it's lost all my pass's, my display settings, my internet connection and pretty much everything else.

So, in short: ****.

It does the same thing if you kill it when its shutting down! Right when its says "Saving Your Settings".
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Post by: Martinus on March 13, 2004, 01:53:17 pm: [color=66ff00]Bad luck, I hope it's all recoverable. :nod:
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Post by: Flipside on March 13, 2004, 01:54:53 pm: Maybe it's the ghost of IRC past ;) hehehehehe
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Post by: an0n on March 13, 2004, 02:00:21 pm: It doesn't need recovering. It's all still there. I can go into Docs'N'Settings and see all the files, it just refuses to put them on the desktop.
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Post by: kasperl on March 13, 2004, 02:00:52 pm: wrong user login?
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Post by: Liberator on March 13, 2004, 06:04:39 pm: I think it's safe to say that between ME and XP, Windows is becoming something of an albatross.

Have you checked the settings to see if they are set to Hidden?
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Post by: Stryke 9 on March 13, 2004, 06:35:49 pm: Egh... I'm loath to say anything bad about XP, 'cos it's such a huge improvement over 2000 it isn't even funny. After years of having my computer lock up every other hour at best and losing everything to viruses because of some idiot, I'm inclined to be overly charitable towards any OS that doesn't lock up just sitting there and can run all my programs relatively well. And is idiot-proof, in that the computer I run it on has me as admin, and I locked all the idiots out.

I don't know what you're doing to your computer, an0n, between this and the installer mess-up... But yeah, it seems like Microsoft's stopped accounting for when things actually do go wrong.
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Post by: aldo_14 on March 13, 2004, 06:54:44 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9

I don't know what you're doing to your computer, an0n, between this and the installer mess-up... But yeah, it seems like Microsoft's stopped accounting for when things actually do go wrong.

When did they start?
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Post by: Stryke 9 on March 13, 2004, 06:59:15 pm: I remember there being replacements available for basically everything before XP, and Safe Mode actually working.
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Post by: aldo_14 on March 13, 2004, 07:02:10 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
I remember there being replacements available for basically everything before XP, and Safe Mode actually working.

I think Windows 3.1 worked ok for me, that was about it.... oh, wait - that was DOS.

:)
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Post by: Liberator on March 13, 2004, 08:51:52 pm: I have never had a major complaint about 98se.
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Post by: Drew on March 13, 2004, 09:12:07 pm: an0n iv had this problem before. I accidentaly deleted my user account (in DOS). what i did, created a new user, then swich back to the other account, then copy *everything* from that users Docs&settings to the other users docs&settings. Itl be a pain but it works out....
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Post by: Stealth on March 13, 2004, 11:35:16 pm: hehe yeah that soundsl ike it might work :-d
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Post by: pyro-manic on March 14, 2004, 03:32:15 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Liberator
I have never had a major complaint about 98se.

:eek2:

Wow... You must be one of very few...
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Post by: Fineus on March 14, 2004, 03:39:09 pm: I think it depends what you try and do with it. If all you do is use the stock hardware... play the most reliable of games and use it for documents etc. Then it's pretty stable.

However... stray from the straight and narrow even a bit and there's a deep dark pit of Microsoft Hell awaiting you.
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Post by: pyro-manic on March 15, 2004, 08:58:56 am: All I know is it BSODded me every chance it got...
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Post by: Nico on March 15, 2004, 10:30:21 am: Quote
Originally posted by Kalfireth
I think it depends what you try and do with it. If all you do is use the stock hardware... play the most reliable of games and use it for documents etc. Then it's pretty stable.

However... stray from the straight and narrow even a bit and there's a deep dark pit of Microsoft Hell awaiting you.

Actually, if you start installing anything, you'll have crashes. Hell, directX can ake win98SE crash by itself.
I had win98 crash during its own instalation for some reason I never found out, on a clean, formated HD.
Once. Like that, for no reason.
I'm completly with Stryke on this one, about XP.
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Post by: Fineus on March 15, 2004, 10:33:45 am: Oh yeah, don't get me wrong - I had my share of crashes when trying to do anything with 98. But XP has been a dream to use.
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Post by: kasperl on March 15, 2004, 10:39:43 am: more of a nightmare for me, really.

every bloody setting as changed location, reliability is somewhat good, but only untill you start doing more then listen to music, and surf a bit. The OS it self has crashed on me about 5 or 6 times, once or twice with rather ugly blue screens o'death (they changed the color btw, ugly greenish blue now). and apps have crashed uncountable times.