[clue-talk] Really OT - Ugg - M$ stuff

[Red Mop]

I "de-louse" windows at least twice a week.  It's the only work I won't guarentee without rebuilding the OS.  Backup, format, install, restore.

I've also had excellent luck with Crossover.  It's a free trial, and all,  Worth a shot.

On Saturday 09 May 2009 09:11:21 pm Silas Martinez wrote:
> First off, you mention wine - does that umbrella include Crossover? I've had
> very good success with getting things to run under crossover (my SO loves
> corel's pait shop pro). It finally enabled me to get my wife to ditch
> windoze.
> As for removing McAfee, I've always had to do that in safe mode. Not quite
> sure why it wouldn't show up in add/remove programs, though - does it have
> an uninstaller in its program files directory, at least?
> 
> As for general de-lousing .... Its been too long since I've had to deal with
> windows support for me to ever have patience for that these days. My
> preference would be the 'nuke it from orbit - its the only way to be sure'
> approach. Backing up data (pictures, music, office docs, etc) first, of
> course. This is made more complicated if you have some hard-to-replace
> applications installed - but its my absolute preference for windows
> (de-lousing is never as effective, and often takes longer than razing and
> rebuilding).
> 
> Of course, that is made easier by having a FreeNAS box here, as well. Most
> of my family's 'critical data' is on an old server's software raided drives,
> on a low maintenance black box. My family has gotten used to a fairly
> typical warning I've heard our windows folks share at work - never keep
> critical data on your local hard drive.
>