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To: SoftballMominVA

It might make you feel better to buy a mac.....but in the “real” world, no one uses that crap except graphics artists and journalists. Real businesses use Windows.

BTW.....If the Windows update “crashed” the system, you might want to boot into safe mode and simply run a restore point. That will restore the computer to its previous configuration. Of course, I’m assuming that you are running Windows XP.


16 posted on 11/14/2008 6:04:37 AM PST by LeoOshkosh (Crazy Leo is right again)
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To: LeoOshkosh

Wont boot to a safe mode, wont boot to a saved point, wont boot at all, just comes up, says the .dll is no longer there or something like that, and then automatically shuts down.

I took mine to a computer repair place and even they could not ‘fix’ the problem. So they just reinstalled windows but every since then the computer is not running well at all.


18 posted on 11/14/2008 6:07:10 AM PST by SoftballMominVA
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To: LeoOshkosh

“It might make you feel better to buy a mac.....but in the “real” world, no one uses that crap except graphics artists and journalists. Real businesses use Windows.”

Love the old tired lines from 15 to 20 years ago. Ironically, today’s Apple Computer can run windoze if one so desired. But after you get the Apple OS, most rarely do.

Who wants to deal with all the crippling spyware, viruses and of course windoze “updates” killing the computer?


44 posted on 11/14/2008 8:13:51 AM PST by romanesq
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To: LeoOshkosh
It might make you feel better to buy a mac.....but in the “real” world, no one uses that crap except graphics artists and journalists. Real businesses use Windows.

I'm going to start a dinosaur computer company death watch for M$... The "real" world you speak of just bought over 10M iphones. Rated recently by JD Powers as the best phone - by far. iPhone just outsold Blackberry last quarter. In the Apple store I frequent 80% of computers are going to PC users that are seeing this same stuff from M$. You can run, but you can't hide from teh truth. More and more people are doing a simple measurement - How Much time do I have to spend on my computer fixing various issues versus doing the things I bought the computer for in the first place.

Fast, Powerful, Solid - NOTHING beats a Mac! (And yes, you can sully these beauties by running - Uggh! - Windoze on them it you need to...

101 posted on 11/14/2008 10:44:25 PM PST by GunnyB (Once a Marine, Always a Marine)
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