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| Thread ID: 124263 | 2012-04-15 06:21:00 | What did the technician do to my computer? | LouiseJ001 (16751) | Press F1 |
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| 1270244 | 2012-04-17 06:26:00 | Because the XP CD doesnt have anything in it (a lot of drivers, or any of the .Net installs, like Vista/Win7). | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1270245 | 2012-04-17 06:31:00 | i see | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1270246 | 2012-04-17 06:33:00 | If you want whatever, you have to install them after you install XP. Or slipstream them with something like Nlite. So, after XP is installed, whatever will be installed. It'll save you installing it after | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1270247 | 2012-04-17 06:43:00 | You may not even need .Net Framework or Java depending on what you use it for. Those stuff would be under Windows Update anyway. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1270248 | 2012-04-17 06:55:00 | Personally I never both with slipstreaming XP , by the time you download all the patches, updates, drivers then have to integrate them, make a new CD, you could have done it faster by doing the following. Install Windows, Install the drivers for the hardware, run windows updates - install any other programs you may want. -- Done. Unless you are doing it regularly on the same hardware a slipstreamed CD is only good for that PC as the drivers wont usually work on another. Windows 7 is a bit different, actually got a full install with drivers down to about 20 Minutes on average (depends on speed of PC) including the normal programs I install. |
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| 1270249 | 2012-04-17 07:13:00 | You only need one file, its got all the patches in it, inc WMP,IE, all the .net installs. It comes out every mth | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1270250 | 2012-04-17 07:29:00 | Slipstreaming XP is not worth the trouble if only doing one computer, and you end up with a lot of useless CD's after a while, esp if they contain drivers. Its also something the average person doesn't know how to do, by the time they muck about figuring out how to do it, installing the program etc, it could have been done. If doing multi computers all the time then maybe. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1270251 | 2012-04-17 07:31:00 | True | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1270252 | 2012-04-17 07:33:00 | I guess I could but I haven't chosen to look into slipstreaming. With just a few computers here at home, I just make a Windows Backup Systems Image and plonk it on the hard drive, or on more than one computer incase that HD crash. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1270253 | 2012-04-17 08:03:00 | Well the pc is now with a computer technician. I had a couple of recommendations. Since I have a budget he will spend up to two hours on it, and I will pay a max of $70.00. He's going to assess it, and provide me with a report on what he finds in there, in particular Windows 7. We discussed it's history at length first and what I understood had been done by the shop and so on. The shop people told me 'it's stuffed' and 'the memory is stuffed'. Although I now strongly suspect that that could be true, that is not what I was experiencing when it went in. I had locked myself out of the pc trying to fix it because it shut down, sure, but it had been saying I had a virus but the virus kept reappearing, so I downloaded a different anti-virus but that resulted in messages saying there was a driver not installed correctly. Anyway, the technician is going to put it on a machine tonight to test the memory before he starts on it. He said he will have all that done by Friday. He also said that he has heard that they charge like a wounded bull, and that he knows of people who have paid $500 and not been happy. It baffled him as to why anyone would put Windows 7 on it. I'm one of those people who like to have a go and ultimately get it wrong, and I therefore search the internet for clues and never come across mentions of a 'double-driver'. Hmmm. |
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