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Describe Your Computer Problems

No one likes to talk about it, much less think about it. But it happens to everyone, from the guy running a site off an old 1998 Gateway to a large business with 50 servers, the inevitable crash. While you fumble for the backup discs or call tech support, you worry about how long it will take or how much it will cost to get everything back up. When due to virus, hardware malfunction, or someone dropping coffee in the wrong place, you lose critical information, time, and money not to mention possibly the hardware itself.
Feel free to talk about any previous, recurring, or current serious computer problems you have. Odds are someone here may be able to help you fix any issues you have now and prevent future ones.
Feel free to talk about any previous, recurring, or current serious computer problems you have. Odds are someone here may be able to help you fix any issues you have now and prevent future ones.
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I`ll agree with you that Microsoft isn`t the most efficient company out there but being the big guy also means you have a target on your back. (A similiar argument is used by us Americans to explain why some countries just don`t seem to like us.) The biggest OS gets targeted the most by cyber criminals and has the biggest chance of crashing because it has a larger user base. The average Linux or Mac user isn`t going to start randomly hitting delete in the registry editor, for example, or opening attachments from Viagra spam e-mail.With that said, I`ve had the severe displeasure of having to tangle with Windows 98, which would crash twice a day just a month after a brand-new clean installation. Even Windows XP doesn`t have an automated backup tool, which makes it even tougher. For example, I was called in to fix someone`s home PC. Sure enough, half the drivers had been misconfigured and now the sound as well as the printer was not working. Since it happened to be a Dell, it only took 2 hours (instead of a day) to eliminate most of the causes. (Dell computers come packed with considerable diagnostic and troubleshooting programs on a partitioned section of the hard drive.) I went to another computer, downloaded the drivers from Dell.com, and had everything fixed by the following morning.Now, if it had been a Mac, I would`ve had to either chance a improvised repair or take it into a Mac repairman who`ll charge $50 an hour just to open the tower.
1. Bill Gates, stated....Windows was the most secure platform back in 1996, he predicted that it would be the Most used OS in the world (he was right) but you know where MS went wrong? Integrating the Internet Browser into the OS. This was their biggest Flaw and they are paying the price of Greed, and domination.
2. Easy to hack into, even with Server Pack 2 release.3. Mostly used, not to many people know how to protect themselves against intrusions. Users doesn`t care, all they want to do is be able to play music, dowload/share pictures, and of course use it for work.Next time if its a dell with an on hard-disk back up partition.Shut the computer off.... Sart it back up while you press the F12 key, and thats it. This applies to all computers with a hard disk back up , by that matter... just hit F12..
No need to download drivers from a secondary source...
Hope this helps...