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I feel your pain, and I am commenting at the highest level to catch all of the comments. What I have done and am continuing to do is migrate to virtual machines. Like others have commented, saying something like re-installing indicates they might not understand the pain. Every-time I replace my laptop, it's damn near a week before it's got all of the s/w I use. And I never get rid of the previous one for at least a year.
But with SSDs and higher end processors, move it to a vm... then it's just copy/paste.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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That's what I am doing for the last time too. I have always had a "ready to go" ghost image that got updated once or twice a year, but I didn't overwrite the previous one, I did a new version.
And since two years ago I started to do similar with the VMs. I have one VM with basic stuff that I use for dumb surfing in the internet and one that I only use for serious online staff. I delete and re-copy the "standard" one every month and the serious one 2 or 3 times a year. Currently with 3 versions of each VM for the last 20 months or so.
Only because I won't suffer big consequences, it doesn't mean it doesn't piss me off
M.D.V. 
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Only because I won't suffer big consequences, it doesn't mean it doesn't piss me off
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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If you despise MS product that much, why not use Linux?
If it were me, I'd rather use Linux than Windows 7.. I imagine...
I'd bet Linux+WinE works better than Windows 7 at this stage... (uninformed bet, I confess)
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Super Lloyd wrote: I'd bet Linux+WinE works better than Windows 7 at this stage... (uninformed bet, I confess)
Nah, take a look at the appdb, you'll see that it's no replacement for Windows.
WineHQ - Wine Application Database[^]
ReactOS might be a bit more enjoyable there.
Super Lloyd wrote: If you despise MS product that much, why not use Linux?
The despising is getting boring, yes As if we'd been better of with an OS from IBM. (Or worse, Apple)
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: The despising is getting boring, yes
I can understand it.
There is an easy solution though. Don't continue reading the OP and ignore the rest of thread once you see the topic is related to the topic 
BTW...
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Nah, take a look at the appdb, you'll see that it's no replacement for Windows.
WineHQ - Wine Application Database[^]
Thanks for the link, good to know
M.D.V.
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Super Lloyd wrote: If you despise MS product that much, why not use Linux?
I am already testing things in Linux in a parallel machine.
But I am the "techie" in the family so I will still have to face such problems. My father and parents-in-law won't change to Linux for sure, 3 things that they use can't run in Linux (at least not yet) and Windows already is "complicated" enough for them. I won't say "I don't care, it's your problem" and abandon them to their luck. I will anyways try to move those things to a VM for them, but even though they must learn a new system and that might be not so easy as you think.
M.D.V.
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Nelek wrote: After the last Win 7 Update (two days ago)...
Why would you install the "update" - they've already admitted it'll be loaded with nagware, AND NOTHING USEFUL!
w7 works fine, not broken, "updates" have been unnecessary for 2 (if not) 5 years.
-- Ignore the FUD, NOTHING NEW, NOTHING ADDED, NOTHING WAS FIXED.
Also "you'll have to upgrade sooner or later"
PLEASE PEOPLE: STOP PROMOTING THIS BULLSHIT
1. It will NOT stop working
2. Only thing that WILL make it worse is installing "updates" AS YOU'VE SEEN YOURSELF
There are literally hundreds of thousands of Win XP boxes out there,
a lot embedded in very vital and important manufacturing / safety / control appliances
win7 will be exactly the same
only 1 thing win7 users need to do today: Turn OFF updates.
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the goat in your machine wrote: Why would you install the "update" - they've already admitted it'll be loaded with nagware, AND NOTHING USEFUL!
I didn't... relative did. I just have to make it work again 
M.D.V.
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after the neolithic ... none of my stone axes were sharp 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Is a toaster a tanning bread?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Butter be nice!
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
JaxCoder.com
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Any way you slice it, that was a crumby post. On the whole, wheat do you think we should post?
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I just waffle on, you know that.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Oooh. Burn!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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That popped up out of nowhere. Hope the replies aren't overdone.
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And is a tanning bed toasty?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A toaster might be drunk as well.
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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And I have 19 spares.
Funny though, isn't it? It takes four times as long to disconnect all the wires, open the PC up, close it back up again, and reconnect the keyboard, mouse, monitors, ethernet, host of USB devices, ... than it does to desolder a five pin connector and solder in a new one?
Plus ça change ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I hope you chained yourself to a radiator before frying your mainboard.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I dug a hole in the garden and buried the PC to earth it, then stood there in the rain soldering in bare feet just to be on the safe side.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Did you ever work as a repairman for CRT devices? 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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No way José!
I watched one of our repair guys working on a colour VDT while wearing a St Christopher medal on a gold chain ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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What is black, sits in the corner corner of your living room and smokes?
A bad TV repairman.
OriginalGriff wrote: José!
No... no hablo inglés, señor.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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