Re: icanhascheezburger vs. Firefox

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:01:59 -0400, jmcquown <j_mcquown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Christine BA" <christal63NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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AZ Nomad kirjoitti:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:11:49 -0500, Nan <summershade80NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:41:26 -0500, AZ Nomad
<aznomad.3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:08:35 -0400, jmcquown <j_mcquown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I haven't visited icanhascheezburger for a while. I run Windows Vista
(it's not the big scary monster everyone thinks it is). But I was
prompted to install a Firefox upgrade. I figured I've never had any
problems with it so I said OK. After I did, it just went nuts! I'd
open one session and suddenly I had four or five of them. And they
all locked up. I couldn't even do the standard 'close' on them. I
had to reboot the PC to get rid of them. I tested it a couple of
times, same behaviour. So I did a system restore back to the day
before I'd installed the Mozilla upgrade and everything worked fine.
And when prompted to upgrade again I said NO. So far no more problems
with Firefox.
And you find this behavior acceptable? (Having to reinstall an OS
because an application misinstalls?)
I don't know about you, but in my opinion, that qualifies vista as
a monster.

Where does Jill say that she had to reinstall her OS? She merely
restored her computer back to before she upgraded Firefox.

I interpreted "system restore" as a wipe and reinstall.


System restore, in Windows, is where you tell your computer to go back to
a certain previously created system restore point. In Jill's case, she had
made a system restore point before the Firefox update. It's just a program
feature, not a format-your-comp-and-reinstall kinda thing. Very handy if
you install a program you're not quite sure about how it will interact
with your comp. So you create a system restore point before the
installation, and if the installation makes things go haywire, you just
back up to the point before the installation. However, if you happen to
create some documents and don't think of copying them to a usb-stick or
something like it, and you do a system restore, I believe they're gone
too...

--
Christine in Finland
christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com



You're correct. Documents, files, emails, etc. are not affected by a
Windows system restore. It simply resets the computer back before the
installed version of [whatever] program that was causing a problem. In my
case, the Firefox upgrade created the problem. Since the system restore, no
problems whatsoever. It's a handy tool :)

The problem is how it does it. It replaces the system registry with a
copy made previously and attempts to replace various system files with
versions of that time.

Windows stores *all* system and *all* application settings in a single
file. It does have separate files for the users' settings. I'm not
sure if system restore reverts the user' settings to the previous date
as well. If it doesn't, it's another place where applications and
their settings can get out of sync.
.

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