Richgm Posted January 9, 2005 Posted January 9, 2005 What does that mean Andy? It's still experimental. ie. not fully tested Quote
adhawkins Posted January 9, 2005 Posted January 9, 2005 Get used to it (Once it can hold oil again ) Andy Quote
Richgm Posted January 9, 2005 Posted January 9, 2005 SWMBO just said "Know you know what it feels like" Wonder what she means Quote
Blatman Posted January 9, 2005 Posted January 9, 2005 It's not released, so use it at your own risk.If it breaks your computer, you get to keep all the pieces. Andy Or, put another way... Microsoft want to test it cheaply, so they're letting us test it. I might send them a bill. IT consultancy ain't cheap these days... Quote
Pete Collins Posted January 9, 2005 Posted January 9, 2005 Blatters - you may struggle. Win98 is not supported. Quote
Blatman Posted January 9, 2005 Posted January 9, 2005 Might download it anyway for a laugh, just to see what happens... Quote
Pete Collins Posted January 9, 2005 Posted January 9, 2005 All this has prompted me to do a scan using Spybot. OK, so it's detected a few problems - but it repeatedly crashes when I try to "fix" them. Is anybody else having similar problems with Spybot? I've uninstalled, downloaded a clean version but still having the same problem. Are there any other similar recommended freebie utilities out there? Quote
Richgm Posted January 9, 2005 Posted January 9, 2005 but it repeatedly crashes when I try to "fix" them. Not crashing. But taking a hell of a long time to correct the errors. It will come up not responding if I try to do anything to the window during this time but if I leave it long enough it will finish. Hehe. Just noticed this is my 300th post Quote
westy Posted January 10, 2005 Author Posted January 10, 2005 If it breaks your computer, you get to keep all the pieces. As with every Microsoft product you install unless you or your company has a support agreement with them. Failing that its www.technet.com, google or the groups for support. This beta smells like it will become a paid service in the future but lets enjoy it for now. Having to use IE and Firefox now due to Firefox being unable to login to sites or logout of them properly Quote
karlgurney Posted January 10, 2005 Posted January 10, 2005 I installed windows on a freshly formated drive about 6 months ago, i had adaware on disk and decided to install it and run it even before my pc had been connected to the internet and guess what found some spyware, how can that be explained. Quote
Pete Collins Posted January 10, 2005 Posted January 10, 2005 I installed windows on a freshly formated drive about 6 months ago, i had adaware on disk and decided to install it and run it even before my pc had been connected to the internet and guess what found some spyware, how can that be explained. I don't think that formatting alone will necessarily destroy any old existing data that was there before formatting. Hence, I would assume that the adware was present on your hard disk before the new install. Quote
Pete Collins Posted January 10, 2005 Posted January 10, 2005 but it repeatedly crashes when I try to "fix" them. Not crashing. But taking a hell of a long time to correct the errors. It will come up not responding if I try to do anything to the window during this time but if I leave it long enough it will finish. Hehe. Just noticed this is my 300th post Richgm, Thanks for your reply. You're absolutely right; I left it to grind away for a while and, low and behold, it did it's job. Many thanks Pete Quote
adhawkins Posted January 10, 2005 Posted January 10, 2005 I don't think that formatting alone will necessarily destroy any old existing data that was there before formatting. To all intents and purposes, a hard disk format will remove any data from the disk. Ok, if someone really wanted to (and not too much had been written to the disk after formatting) they could get data from it. However, a 'standard' OS like XP won't see things on the disk. To the OS it'll look completely empty. Andy Quote
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