Re: Blue screen system halts, CA antivirus, MS Access

On Sep 19, 3:00 am, "ARC" <a...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey Ananda,

Ok, enough's enough! I'm going to buy a new pc today, and when I have time,
I'll totally format the HD on the old one, and reload Winxp, and give to my
daughter!

So on the new one, I should load all software that I anticipate needing in
the near future (Office, Wise Installer, etc. etc.), then do a ghost of the
new system?

1. Don't put all your eyes in one basket

2. Always have more one system. That means either more than one
physical PC or virtual pc.

3. Don't abandon Windows XP. Sure run Vista to get used to it but keep
at least one Windows XP system around either physical or virtual.

4. Don't look back on old hardware or old hard disks. If they are
useful fine, but current generation "budget" or "medium" hard disks
are 160Gb or 320Gb - they are enormous compared to the 40Gb hard disk
I have several of which are circa 2001.

5. On the main systems, partition your hard disk into 2 volumes, a
system volume of 40Gb and the rest data. This way, you can Ghost your
system volume easily without requiring extra space. Ghost your system
volume often and regularly.

6. The new PC should be 2Gb - 3Gb RAM and a large hard disk,
partitioned into 40Gb system and the rest as data. An external hard
disk as big as or 2x bigger than the internal hard disk is a good idea
so that you can do backups.

7. Learn how to use free Microsoft Virtual PC or pay for VMWare
Workstation.
Microsoft Virtual PC will allow you to create several VPCs -
containing Windows XP, Vista, whatever - retail copies of Windows and
Office will insist on paid licences. However, you can use trial copies
for testing - the trials expire in say 30 days but that's enough time
for you to trash the virtual systems to death.

When you use licenced copies of Windows and Office, you can start the
system in Virtual PC, play around, do crazy things, save out to
persistent data volume, then close down the Virtual PC and ensure you
nominate "do not save changes" - thus the system doesn't "age" but the
data is safely saved.

With Virtual PC, you can separate the different versions of Office
into separate virtual machines - you don't need to run all the
versions at the same time.

Keep the host PC as "clean" of any software as you can - this makes
the host PC uncontaminated and fast.

Ananda


Also, I have 2 hard drives on my current "buggy" pc. What I'm planning is to
hook up the boot drive on this xp machine to the new computer as a slave,
then copy over my development folder, and any software install executables,
etc. Not too familiar with vista, will it mind that i'm hooking up an xp
formatted drive for copy purposes? Any other tips you can share?

Vista and XP use similar file systems. They both see NTFS and FAT32.
That will be fine.

.

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