Brothers! Back-up your Registry!

[jeffus]

Oh, I did it real good. I fooked-up my system last night. Edited some registry stuff and I didn't back it up beforehand. Bad Daddy, Bad!

Paying the price now. Doing a system restore in hopes of salvaging this fiasco. Takes quite a bit of time now, doesn't it? Got 1/2 a terabyte hard drive.

I'm scared.

I was trying to re-install a very expensive piece of software that was experiencing difficulties. Said my Performance Counter Library values were corrupted & "Here's how to fix". I tried fixing, only making it worse.

I hate computers! *Spoken in the same spirit as the golfer who just hit a bad tee shot*. :axe:

Thanks for listening.... :violin:

I'm on the 5 year old POS until things get back on track.....sucks!

[Weston]

Oh crap... don't know what a registry is but... oh crap. :)

Hope ya get it fixed soon

[sao95]

restoring to an earlier point?

[jeffus]

Yup....didn't work.

Seems the mods I made to the registry carried back or the original problem has raised its ugly head again.

[sao95]

anyway you can back up your work and important info and start from scratch?

[jeffus]

I always back-up data & work files but I'd hate to start all over again.

I got 2 more days of service contract with Dell. Let's see what they can do for me.

Error message said: Call IT department. I am the IT department!

[jeffus]

2.5 hours & 1 problem down!

Although I'm going to be talking like a Indian for a couple of days....

That was pretty painful!

[DarthDaddy]

You forgot to sacrifice a computer mouse to the PC gods didn't you...

Tsk Tsk... Remember to always make those sacrifices...


:lol:

[jeffus]

I sacrificed a squirrel on the altar today and got problem #2 settled.

Problem #3 is going to be the show-stopper. Looks like I'll be making tons of back-up DVD's tomorrow and ZZTop'ing* this beotch pretty soon.

* Refers to Dell's prior utility that will reset everything back to the factory defaults thus losing everything.....always fun.... :cry:

:D

[Bollux]

yeah i had to do that a few times myself, it truely is a pain in the @ss trying to back everything up to ensure you have it all before the reinitializing.

[craigbass76]

Ahh, the joys of Windows...

I feel for you man. The registry is truly an evil thing.

[jeffus]

Just picked up an external hard drive to back everything up. We'll see how it goes.....

[Patrickz]

:eek: May the force be with you jeffus!

[Jackson's Dad]

I know you know this already, but...... I totally recommend that everyone have a backup harddrives that's as big as their internal, and some decent backup software. I have an external drive on each computer, and backup the whole thing every night. It has saved me from small snafus (whoops, deleted a file by mistake) to major blowouts. In fact, on my work computer, I have two backups -- a mirror of the system drive, and an incremental archive of all of my work files (3 versions of each file get saved).

On the Mac, I recommend Chorosync, which costs a mere $30 and is a solid program.

[jeffus]

I'll second that! :yeah:

I back-up all my work files fairly routinely to DVD's as a matter of practice.

The external hard drive I just got is much sweeter! I had one wayback and it was more of a pain than it was worth. New one - plug it in, and go! I likey.

169 GB of 'stuff'....that's a bunch of DVD's. :wink:

[stretch]

This thread just inspired me to buy an external HD, too. Thanks.

Time to be sensible about backups.

[jeffus]

200 GB Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 - $120 at BestBuy.

USB2.0 - pretty darn fast and absolutely painless install. Plug n play.

[jeffus]

OK...Poof! Resetting the computer to brand new. Re-formatting the hardrive (I'm on the old time-tested battlewagon for a few hours meanwhile).

Actually kind of looking forward to a fresh install. 2 minutes to boot-up is too long. Out of the box - 25 seconds (yeah, I wrote it down). After a year of abuse, spyware, spam, and crap - too slow. And pretty much useless to me at this point.

I might add, MicroSoft is pretty much useless as long as they continue with the Indian call centers - 3 hours and no concrete resolution. I got a guy from Idaho from Dell who fixed me up in 10 minutes. Of course I did pay for that when I bought the system, but MS should be pretty adept at handling these technical issues - you'd think?! Riiiight!

I'm sure I missed a file somewhere that has been blown unto oblivion, but what can you do. I did find those gems of me in the 1960's, though.... :D

[jeffus]

Allright! I'm back!

Think of me what you will, but it's done! 20 second clean-boot! :D

[stretch]

Goodbye Dell crap-ware, too. :D

I ended up getting a Firewire external HD because my old iMac is USB 1.1. Cavalry 250GB, 7200rpm -- $130 from Tiger Direct.

Storage is getting pretty cheap at almost 50c a gigabyte.

[jeffus]

OK....everything's gone well so far. Re-installed all or most of the regular software. That went surprisingly well.

I tried installing the 'biggie' - AutoDesk Inventor 11, which I paid 5k originally for and pay a hefty $1200 a year subscription ....and I'm getting the same fucking errors as before.

Gosh darnit all to heck (edited for family viewing). Oh I just want to strangle somebody right about now! Hey, there goes the dog! Nobody will miss him....they'll probably thank me!

A line from GhostBusters comes to mind...."You've never worked in the private sector.......They expect results!"

I do. Maybe that's why I'm disappointed! :evil: