Oh man that is hosed

Post #143,292 by deSitter 2/25/04 4:59:24 PM Reply	Oh man that is hosed SOFTWARE is everything installed, including Windows itself. You can do a "last known good" - dance on F8 while it's trying to boot. -drl
Post #143,311 by drewk 2/25/04 5:49:12 PM Reply	ICLRPD You can do a "last known good" - dance on F8 while it's trying to boot. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #143,407 by pwhysall 2/26/04 3:23:57 AM Reply	Nah "Last Known Good" is nothing to do with the registry, or the drivers. It's simply the last time you managed to log in. The best you can do with that is to recover your own user registry hive, which won't help here. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home Page - Now with added Zing!]
Post #143,414 by deSitter 2/26/04 4:48:46 AM Reply	Nah I thought - well I know - a successful shutdown will by default make a backup copy of the registry (that's what all the disk activity is), which can be reloaded with a "last known good". Usually the backup has the same issues as the primary, because by the time you know a real problem is afoot it has propagated to all 4 backup copies. The only real use is for an install of something that completely prevents booting. I remember well when this facility was added to Windows NT - the first release (3.1) did not have such a facility, so if you installed a driver that would not work (very easy to do in the early days - wow this was 10 years ago now), you were dead, the whole thing had to be reinstalled. 3.5 allowed the "Last Known Good" choice to roll back to the previous configuration. The backups are somewhere below system32 and are compressed. -drl
Post #143,425 by pwhysall 2/26/04 8:08:11 AM Reply	My bad Anyway, I never bother "fixing" Windows boxes. There's no point (it'll only break again anyway) and it's far more cost-effective to reload the operating system. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home Page - Now with added Zing!]

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