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Yesterday, I got handed an Acer lappy, and asked to update it before the free period runs out tomorrow.
So...I back it up, and start the upgrade. It runs to 99% and stops after 4 hours. Ah. I see. Windows 7 updates...shutdown...27 updates.
Turned it this morning...same thing, 48 updates... followed by an hour to start up.
And now? Yet another 26...
Seriously Eryl? When did you last turn this thing on, 1976?
Sod this...where's that Media Creation Tool?
12 minutes later and it's downloaded the ISO and has started the verification. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Don't you just love acting as (unpaid) tech. support for all your friends and relations? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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It would have taken a lot less time to just install Linux on the computer.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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All Windows 7 SP1 updates from its release through April 2016, in a single rollup[^].
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 So I had a BSOD problem, the hardware guy came over to handle it, and finished with a newly formatted HD!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The obvious method of thanking him would be to reformat (boot, of course) his genitalia.*
* We'd not want him to breed, anyway.
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Aren't you really, really glad you do regular backups! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm hoping against hope that your intentions were just plain cruel.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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It is not my - personal - computer, and the company policy is to backup only personal profile.
What we have are basic images (updated once a year!!!), so I have to install a few million updates, and configure all that are not stored on my personal profile...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The Company wants you to be productive, yes? 
Manager: What have you been doing all day? Playing with your computer!?! We've got a product to finish and ship!!!
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For the purpose of creating graphs of plan-against-done we should report on what we spent our day... Normally I do not do this (the reporting), but for the two days it takes me to restore my productivity I report 'no computer'...Just for fun...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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And yes. At home I do full image backup - weekly...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Wish I would have. Just lost my hard drive and the last backup was a while ago. Have some files from a couple of days ago, but not all.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Aren't you really, really glad you do regular backups!
Aren't you really glad you store everything in The Cloud?
I think that is what you meant, right?.
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But the BSOD is gone, right?
(running, ducking, and hiding)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: running, ducking, and hiding
Bevare! You are in my range!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Commiseration is.
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Use your backup. Wait a moment - you havent one 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Probably did you a favor. Quite often I have to reinstall the OS, and intend to do it, but procrastinate. Unfortunately last time this happened, think it was because of a failing disk. Unfortunately the disk did not tell me it was failing, it was just acting funny. Can't complain though. The disk was a 1TB from 2009, and on my desktop had 5 hard drives, including an 8TB and an SSD. Only reason I was still using the 1TB as my system hard drive was that it was easier than forcing the system to boot off the ssd that I already had set up as a System drive. Just had to update and add some apps to the SSD
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What's the problem?
You get to spend an entire day on CP while waiting for all kinds of stuff to install.
It's not your fault you can't be productive so you still get paid.
Put slightly different, you get paid to wait and be on CP
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You know nothing, Sander Rossel!
I do not care for the payment - I'm just like my job done, and hate when stupid things stand in my way...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: You know nothing
I know the BSOD wouldn't get me down!
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If not...perhaps you ought to![^]
I've had mine for donkeys years, and I'm still not dead, which proves it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I go for the best of both worlds by being clean shaven (so none of the beard-dwelling bacteria) and not shaving often enough (hence much less of the dreaded "micro-trauma" referred to in the article).
This way, I expect I can happily live for centuries without ever being accused of being either a hipster or of being overly groomed. It's a win-win situation.
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