Re: Windows registry cleanup tools

[Peter Cassidy pcassidy@xxxxxxxx]

CP/M was, I think, easier to use than DOS in that it never, ever blew
up. DOS, by comparison, was a mess and Windows (until XP SP2) a non-stop
catastrophe. CP/M (at least in the Kaypro flavor I used) had solid,
parsable documentation.


Peter

Phil White wrote:
> Right on! GEM truly was a gem. What it could do on those little 8 and 16-bit
> machines was impressive in comparison with everything else available on that
> hardware at the time.
>
> CP/M, despite being a tiny OS which needed a fair amount of technical
> expertise to install and run, also blew DOS away in many respects. Using
> CP/M actually gave me a leg up into the DEC operating system world when I
> was turning into a computer professional.
>
> People today don't appreciate how far we have come.
>
> 	Phil
>
> Philip D. White,
> Senior Information Architect
> University of Houston, CASA Testing Center
>
>
> Phone: (713) 743-4135
> Fax: (713) 743-8630
> Email: pdwhite@xxxxxxxx
>
>
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> Subject: Re: Windows registry cleanup tools
>
> Y'all,
>
> Putting two and two together here:
>
> ≪From a DR perspective, it is a lot harder to extract data from a
> corrupted /
>
> damaged Hard Disk Drive if it has multiple partitions.
>
> With the price/megabyte as it is, there is no reason why you shouldn't
> have
> a secondary HDD for data and non OS dependant apps. (Unless of course
> you
>
> are using a laptop)≫
>
> +
>
> ≪
>
> > But you SHOULD partition your drive. At the very least,
> > EVERYONE, no matter how much a willing slave of
> > Redmond, should have a separate data partition.
> >  
>
> But I want to back up more than just data files. I want to backup the
> config files, at least, for what I've installed. Even if I can't backup
> the Windows OS, there's a lot of stuff that's neither that nor data (as
> conventionally construed).≫
>
>
> The obvious solution to data and OS backups, including backing up the
> reg is this: make an IMAGE of the whole kit and caboodle, OS, apps,
> data--regardless whether they are on the same or different partitions.
> Once you have a clean-running system, deposit the image on an external
> HD. External HDs are getting cheaper by the minute. Where I am, they
> are down to one Swiss franc per GB. Shucks, a 250 GB HD can even be
> purchased with a fastethernet link now, and you can daisy-chain
> multiple 250s, so every pc and Mac in the LAN can access it/them. Image
> software is readily available. This is a cheap and practical solution
> for the home user, and not overburdened with documenting what you do.
> If your system crashes or the reg gets cluttered beyond repair, just
> copy the image from the external HD and overwite the partiitons
> affected. Image software has the necessary GUI to do this, usually
> including a bootable CD-ROM which gets you underneath the corrupted
> Windows OS so you can communicate with the image source (viz the
> external HD) and locate the image(s) to be copied.
>
>
> Now, just to niggle Patricia a bit, No, not everyone should partition
> your harddrive. (Too many cooks spoil the broth.) YOU should partition
> your harddrive.
>
>
> ≪GEM was actually a more advanced
> graphical interface than Windows was originally. (GEM and Ventura's
> concepts
> can be traced back to the original Xerox crew that dreamed up the whole
> GUI
> thing in the first place.) ≫ Good lord, someone out there remembers
> GEM! I had an Atari 1040F, with a huge 1 MB RAM--huge for those
> days--running GEM. It ran for ten years without one crash. Lovely
> little machine. Changing over to Windows (3.11 and then NT4; I gave
> Win9x a miss) was a degradation I regretted for years. Trouble was,
> fewer and fewer apps were being written for the GEM/Atari as Windows
> gobbled up the market.