All Animes: Re: [animeontv] Re: crashes query?

I would have to agree. I have reinstalled a system for much less. Just
be sure you make copies of any files you want to keep to a different
drive or even CD/DVDs if it is not too much data. Files you will want
to make sure you get are Favorites/Bookmarks, any documents, pictures,
video, and music. If you have a full e-mail program you need the data
file (.pst in Microsoft's products). If you use Quicken or Money or a
Tax program look for those data files. Most programs anymore store
there data in your My Documents folder but be sure to check other
places.

Chris Hyche

Quoting Kameusagi <kameusagi@animeontv.com>:

>
> RE: Once upon a time keiman0 shaped the electrons to say... HELP!!!
>
> Whenever I hear so many issues occuring to one person (Hijacked
> email, applications crashing randomly that don't crash for anyone
> else) I have to recommend the worst case solution ...
>
> Scrape the machine and start again.
>
> And I mean reformat the hard drive, install the operating system
> from scratch, install all your applications again from scratch, do
> all the windows updates and just deal with having to waste a day,
> lose some customizations and having to reboot a thousand times.
>
> In the last year I have had to deal with a bunch of clients who have
> caught various viruses, trojans and malware. At first I would try
> and "fix" the system ... in most cases I spent more time trying to
> fix the issues than it would have taken to do a complete reinstall,
> including backing up / restoring thier data.
>
> Malware is becoming so nasty these days that even the best tools
> cannot get rid of all the damage they cause.
>
> A good test to see if you are totally malwared is to attempt to
> download and install the free trial of malwarebytes from
> http://www.malwarebytes.org ... any quality nasty virus tojan
> malware today is going to prevent you from accessing the site ... or
> if you get the files from a CD-ROM even allowing the installer to
> run. I had some malware recently that would let malwarebytes run but
> lock it up half way through. If you cannot run malwarebytes then
> you are too far gone for any simple fix.
>
> My malware support policy is now "If I cannot run malwarebytes to
> fix your computer, we are reinstallng everything. SUCK IT UP!!!"
>
>
> IF you do reinstall, but do not already have some form of backup
> media that can easily backup / restore all your stuff (I usually
> recommend buying a nice 1.5 TB external USB External Hard Drive at
> $150)
> ... The following is what I did for one customer who was "on a budget" ...
>
> 1) buy a USB to Hard Drive adapter cable ($25 or less)
>
> 2) buy a new hard drive for your computer (you can find some as
> cheap as $50, or use this as an opportunity to get A BIG ONE!!!)
>
> 3) install the new hard drive into your computer
>
> 4) install OS, Applications and windows updates from scratch
>
> 5) (optional) make a backup of this beautiful clean system just in
> case restoring your data somehow infects you again. (I usually
> recommend Acronis True Image Home 2009 ($50) and that nice 1.5 TB
> external USB External Hard Drive I mentioned before.)
>
> 6) using the USB to Hard Drive adapter cable attached to your OLD
> hard drive, copy your data from the OLD to the NEW.
>
> 7) keep the OLD hard drive around ... just in case you forgot to
> restore some data from it. Or perhaps use it as a backup hard drive
> if it is not too small.
>
>
> Having said all that ... random crashes in multiple applications
> could also be a hardware problem. Have you run a memory test recently?
>
> Download and run memtest86 http://www.memtest.org/
>
>
> Tim
>
> "No I will NOT fix your computer"
>
>
>