Re: Bad sectors... how bad?

David Maynard <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:11pd1hf6r4923da@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:


>
> No, you don't. Just load SP2, which includes all updates prior to
> SP2's release, and then the remaining post SP2 updates after that.
>
> And since your CD is apparently pre-SP2 you should download the
> 'redistribution' version (huge file) and keep it on CD so you don't
> have to redownload if you need to install XP again (or make yourself
> an SP2 slip streamed XP CD).
>

I guess I should be more precise. When I say I run all the upgrades, I'm
only talking about the disks, I don't have to laod 98, then downlaod the
upgrades for that... then load XP.. download those... and so on.

Someone said that I don't have to load the previous versions, this is
just not true. Believe me, I've tried. The only original load OS disk I
have is a Win 95. All the others are upgrade disks, and they won't work
unless the previous version is installed. They look for previous
versions, and if they don't see it, they won't load. I tried loading SP2
but it looked for an existing XP and wouldn't load.

As long as I'm on the subject this is one of my biggest complaints about
MS. First hey sell you a defective OS's for $75-$100 (by defective I
mean full of security holes, instability etc.). Then, they start selling
updgrades devective upgrades for the same price. They want $200.00 for a
non upgrade program disk. You pay $100.00 for the upgrade, it's
defective so you have to download patches the day you load it. If you
started all this (like I did) back with DOS, you've spent $600.00 just to
have an operating system (to be fair, DOS and win 3.11 were very stable).
You pay $100 for an upgrade, and then you have to go out get the patches
for it, this is no small inconvenience. When I built my mother in laws
machine, it literally ten hour to get the OS loaded because she has a
dial up connection. Sure, the patches are free, but if you don't have
high speed internet your looking at hours of downlaod time. Yes I know
you can have the upgrades run in the background but my mother in law was
leaving for Panama in two days and I wanted to have as patched up as
possible before she left because I have no idea what kind of ISP and
internet environment she'll have to deal with down there.

Then comes along this lame antitrust settlement that allows MS to
continue to sell defective OS's followed by upgrades. Here's what I
would have liked to see:

No more upgrade only CDs. Every CD should be a complete OS CD with
upgrade options. I think the only difference between the $200 XP disk
and the $100 upgrade is that the upgrade looks for previous installs.

No MS OS should cost more than $100 from now on.

MS should be required to release patches, in CD form, for free, every six
months. No one with a dial up should have to sit around for six hours
with a vulnerable OS waiting for all the patches to download and install
on your brand new $100 operating system! The background option is fine
for weekly maintaince, but after six months, your usually looking
multiple and large patches and program updates.

That's what I say!

Paul.
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