My Dinner with Clippy
Jan. 15th, 2011 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogThe Great Restore of 2011™ has been cranking happily away all afternoon. Everything on the old hard drive survived, and transferred back to the new one. That caused a few conflict problems, though,but between restores and reinstalls, I THINK I overcame all of them.
Along the way, New Guru M. found at least eight trojans sitting on that old drive, which had gotten past all the firewalls, anti-viruses, defenders and malwarebyters. Whether any of them caused the crash, we're not sure. What we are now, though, is much up-to-datier on both operating system and protections of same.
Now to find out if all my old stuff can live with that.
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Transferring the files from the old c: drive (I copied everything but the Windows folders and told it not to overwrite anything newer that M. had put on) also transferred some programs. Some jumped right into action when I called them up, but the pickier ones insisted on being reinstalled from their original disks. Which, amazingly, I have. What's NOT so amazing is how some of them reacted when they interacted with their copied-over remnants on the new c: drive.
The billing proggie, which had reinstalled beautifully on this old XP machine earlier today (when I test-installed it to be sure the last backup would restore, which it did), loaded just fine on the new drive, but every time I tried to run it, it loaded itself. Twice. And neither version would shut down without crashing both. That led to a system restore, back to just before M's last update earlier today, and the billing install then went fine.
Unfortunately, I now need to re-re-install Office. My cheap old 2000 version, that is, and THAT means, once again, reacquainting myself with Clippy. Damn that thing is annoying. I do like him morphing into a motorcycle and just driving off into the distance when you kill him off.
Just one last windmill to tilt at, to get my archived office email restored and the mail client working again. (Oh, and iTunes, which was in on the damn crash in the first place, but until I need something synched to or from the phone, that's low on my list.) That, and buy Clippy a proper headstone. If only I could think of what to put on it....
You look like you're writing an epitaph. Would you like toGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Along the way, New Guru M. found at least eight trojans sitting on that old drive, which had gotten past all the firewalls, anti-viruses, defenders and malwarebyters. Whether any of them caused the crash, we're not sure. What we are now, though, is much up-to-datier on both operating system and protections of same.
Now to find out if all my old stuff can live with that.
----
Transferring the files from the old c: drive (I copied everything but the Windows folders and told it not to overwrite anything newer that M. had put on) also transferred some programs. Some jumped right into action when I called them up, but the pickier ones insisted on being reinstalled from their original disks. Which, amazingly, I have. What's NOT so amazing is how some of them reacted when they interacted with their copied-over remnants on the new c: drive.
The billing proggie, which had reinstalled beautifully on this old XP machine earlier today (when I test-installed it to be sure the last backup would restore, which it did), loaded just fine on the new drive, but every time I tried to run it, it loaded itself. Twice. And neither version would shut down without crashing both. That led to a system restore, back to just before M's last update earlier today, and the billing install then went fine.
Unfortunately, I now need to re-re-install Office. My cheap old 2000 version, that is, and THAT means, once again, reacquainting myself with Clippy. Damn that thing is annoying. I do like him morphing into a motorcycle and just driving off into the distance when you kill him off.
Just one last windmill to tilt at, to get my archived office email restored and the mail client working again. (Oh, and iTunes, which was in on the damn crash in the first place, but until I need something synched to or from the phone, that's low on my list.) That, and buy Clippy a proper headstone. If only I could think of what to put on it....
You look like you're writing an epitaph. Would you like toGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Date: 2011-01-16 05:58 pm (UTC)A fan of the strip actually made it a reality. Source code is here: http://vigor.sourceforge.net/
Needless to say, it is an abomination unto the Lord.