Re: WAY OT: Windoze admin help needed

On Oct 18, 12:10 am, HardWorkingDog <har...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1ttch3pdcubpa532tjmn0u88togb442...@xxxxxxx>,

CrashTestDummy <fjbradfordREM...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:10:05 -0700, edi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

XP uses the file and transfer settings wizard, it works. We use it for
backup and to bring up new machines. It keeps almost everything, I
have yet to get one complaint about it. You need to pre install the
apps on the new machines first.

Start - programs - accessories - system tools - file and transfer
settings wizard

Oh yeah, sorry Charles, I forgot about that new XP feature (I've
never used it).

Good choice, dewd. (see below)

... Like a programmer buddy of
mine and I were discussing recently though, it's a shame Microsoft
doesn't make switching to a new computer more effortless... we're both
convinced that there's no reason why they couldn't if they wanted to.
I mean, that file and transfer settings wizard is certainly an
improvement over the direct cable connection of Win95, but they could
make things even better if they wanted to.

I dunno about that. I think they're at about their limit of capable
vs. palpable.



Anyway, my apologies for overlooking the wizard thing... thanks
Sean!

...gorf, ack, yuck...to quote Calvin

I have met the enemy, and he is windoze.

File and Settings Transfer Wizard was a sham. I wasted a huge amount
of time today trying to get it to work, and eventually I discovered
that the ONLY way it will work is if you have a removable drive, i.e.
a floppy disk or a cdr (a FRREAKIN' FLOPPY DISK!!!, are you JOKING?).
The old computer in this case has no such drive.

<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457074.aspx>

Now despite the fact that Mr. Wizard asks you if the old and new
computers are NETWORKED it STILL won't transfer the so-called files
and settings without a sneaker-netted floppy disk popped into the old
one and then the new. Un f-ing believable. I've got a 100Mbps ethernet
connection, and it won't transfer the files and settings over the
network UNLESS I FIRST PUT IN A 3.5" FLOPPY DISK.

So, Mr. Wizard let me go through all the motions of collecting the
bits of fluff it calls settings ("wallpaper, colors, sounds, and the
location of the taskbar" oh boy, like I'm really worried about that)
and then told me the new computer couldn't FIND my files and settings
it had so laboriously collected.

feh.

I spent a long time trying to figure out why it wouldn't do what it
promised, finally realizing it wanted a floppy disk. I don't think you
could BUY one if you really wanted to. Seen one in Best Buy recently?

I'm now part way through just manually selecting groups of files and
copying them onto the new drive via ethernet, but because Mr. Gates is
so worried about me screwing up his lovely hacked up OS, I can't put
them where they belong from my network connection. Instead, all the
files from "My Documents" have to go into C:\goes in my docs\ that I
had to create because it won't let me copy them directly into C:\My
Documents\ and then I trot over to the new computer, open up "goes in
my docs" and drag them into "My Documents" and then drag the empty
"put in my docs" folder to the trash, er, recycle bin.

etc., etc., etc.

The iTunes music software was a piece of cake (thankfully, Apple knows
how to create windows apps better than Microsoft). Now, I've got to
tackle email and Andersen's crappy proprietary files. Then get back to
work :)

I went to an interesting presentation the other day, speaking of
Microsoft's ineptitude, by Joel Spolsky of Fog City Software. He's an
interesting speaker, and writer, and at one time was one of the chief
developers at Microsoft in charge of Excel. That's got to be a fun
thing to have on your resume, isn't it?

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/

Anyway, he talked about how about 10 years ago or so (my estimate) the
team working on MS Project were asked to "eat their own dog food"--use
Project to schedule the development of Project itself, and
specifically to figure out the ship date. According to Spolsky, they
spent days and days and days, finally came up with a printout about 63
pages long, that predicted the ship date would be March of 2018...

--
Charles
'99 YZ250

I have no idea what your issues are but it works flawlessly for us.
And we do it probably once a month. And we use it to back up machines
weekly. I do you an external drive though. Is one of the machines
Windows 2000 or 98 or something? They both have to be XP or better.

.

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