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Question (again): Is there some way to backup a computer before installing a program?
Posted on 09/11/2007 10:06:01 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
And we made it to this point without anyone telling you to buy a Mac!
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posted on
09/11/2007 12:14:03 PM PDT
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1rudeboy
To: N3WBI3; Billthedrill
Would a network drive work?
Typing ntbackup or NTBACKUP in the run box brings up a window with: "Windows cannot find 'ntbackup'." and goes on to suggest seeing whether the name was typed properly or using Start and then Search.
This computer is a Toshiba, and in the control panel under the performance section there is a Toshiba Power Saver icon. Is this a Toshiba thing?
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posted on
09/11/2007 12:19:08 PM PDT
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Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: 1rudeboy
That does often happen on these sorts of threads. (And "Are you logged in?").
Now AdAware, Spybot, and G-Zapper (all downloaded and installed after reading about them on FR, incidentally) are installed, apparently without crashing the computer, and hopefully all the bugs and trackers were removed (the scans brought up quite a few).
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09/11/2007 12:22:30 PM PDT
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Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
If you don’t have an Accessories folder in your Start menu, you can click Start -> Run and type “c:\windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe” in the box (without the quotes) and click OK. That will run the System Restore wizard, which gives you the option to create a restore point manually.
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09/11/2007 12:29:34 PM PDT
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Turbopilot
(iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
NTBACKUP is automatically installed with XP Pro; with XP Home, you need to break out your XP disk and install it.
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09/11/2007 1:25:55 PM PDT
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Born Conservative
(Chronic Positivity - http://jsher.livejournal.com/)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Sounds like an interesting and somewhat custom installation. The default is to have an Accessories folder and a path established to NTBACKUP's usual location, which is c:\windows\system32. You might try navigating to that location to see if perhaps it's actually there and you've lost the path to it. My guess is not.
Yes, the Toshiba Power Saver icon is a Toshiba thing, although most other brands have their own front-end for this function.
You might also find the backup utility in an i386 folder if someone has one of those out there on the network (these are install directories). There's also one on the installation media.
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
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09/11/2007 1:27:13 PM PDT
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Born Conservative
(Chronic Positivity - http://jsher.livejournal.com/)
To: Born Conservative; Billthedrill; Turbopilot
Appreciated.
Turbopilot's method seems to have worked.
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09/11/2007 1:38:57 PM PDT
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Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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