Big computer problem

[HomerJSimpson]

For some reason, my computer is not letting me load my primary profile. It says it is corrupt and will only let me load a temp profile that will not save settings. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

[molson]

This happened to me - the easiest solution is to create a new profile, copy your data from the old one to the new one, and then delete the old one:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151

[Franklinnoble]

Yep. Log in as an administrator (with a different account) and then copy the busted profile to a new account.

[HomerJSimpson]

Thanks, but I just dump the whole OS and started once again (I did save the files in the way you described). I was able to put the OS on the drive I wanted on in the first place, so that was the added bonus.

[PackerFanatic]

Stupids Windows...

Go Linux!

[HomerJSimpson]

Stupids Windows...

Go Linux!


Been there, done that, went back to Windows. It may suck, but at least it is user friendly.

[jeff061]

New versions of Linux are pretty damn user friendly and slick looking. Suse and Fedora Core are both pretty dummy proof.

But you are not going to be running FOF or a number of other applications on it.

[HomerJSimpson]

New versions of Linux are pretty damn user friendly and slick looking. Suse and Fedora Core are both pretty dummy proof.

But you are not going to be running FOF or a number of other applications on it.


Have tried both, and they are no where near "user-friendly."

[jeff061]

Well if user friendly for you will always mean identical to Windows, then you are correct I guess. Having seen the progression of Linux distros over the years I am impressed with where they are now.

I am not endorsing them, my main workstations are Windows.

[HomerJSimpson]

Well if user friendly for you will always mean identical to Windows, then you are correct I guess. Having seen the progression of Linux distros over the years I am impressed with where they are now.

I am not endorsing them, my main workstations are Windows.


No, user friendly means "easy to use by user." Very little seems to be to be laid out in a way that makes sense, unless you are a IT professional. It probably looks really "dumb down" for someone who works in Networking, but to the average computer user (and I'm actually an above average user), it is still very far from easy.

[PackerFanatic]

No, Linux is not easy for those looking to replace Windows straight away without much knowledge at all of how they work. It is definitely a learning experience when you use it and not for the light of heart, heh.

The only reason Windows may be "user-friendly" is because EVERYONE knows about it and uses it...yet they still seem to be far behind on things like security and such...

[jeff061]

Windows has changed very little since 95, so anything that is not exactly like Windows is not going to make much sense the first time you use it, since you have one set experience ingrained in you. You are used to something and don't want to learn something different uness you have to(which you don't), fine.

[HomerJSimpson]

Windows has changed very little since 95, so anything that is not exactly like Windows is not going to make much sense the first time you use it, since you have one set experience ingrained in you. You are used to something and don't want to learn something different uness you have to(which you don't), fine.


I wish I could give you specific examples but it has been a couple of months, but it really had little to do with not being "like" windows but much more not being able to get it to do things it was suposed to do, and it being very hard to correct errors. I did spend hours trying to learn it (including taking a class), there is just way too much of it dependent upon the archaic command line system.

[PackerFanatic]

It is a lot different than Windows, that is probably what most people don't like. They are all (myself included) used to the taskbar and the windows and all that jazz...they don't like going to something like Linux.

[Glengoyne]

I wish I could give you specific examples but it has been a couple of months, but it really had little to do with not being "like" windows but much more not being able to get it to do things it was suposed to do, and it being very hard to correct errors. I did spend hours trying to learn it (including taking a class), there is just way too much of it dependent upon the archaic command line system.
Hey for some of us that "archaic" command line system is important. It allows people who know what they are doing to accomplish quite a bit in limited time.

As for coping with that, whenever I'm tinkering around in a Linux GUI, and I need to do call an app from a command line(when I feel the command line environment isn't needed), I just create a windows like shortcut to the item for future use. That of course took me a bit of doing the first time I tried it in Linux.

[jeff061]

If you use the command line Linux makes Windows look totally prehistoric, Windows is pretty much crippled in this reguard. However, this was a point I didn't think needed to be brought up here :).

[HomerJSimpson]

Just for reference on my Linux experience: http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~fof/forums/showthread.php?t=36359&highlight=linux


I, to this date, 1) still couldn't get Linux to recognize drives with file systems it was supoosed to recognize. 2) I never could get many of the apps to work as they were supposed to. 3) Never could get any windows program to work using wine or the other emulator.

As SI said in the thread, it is not just that it is "not windows" but that it is a operating system with a steep learning curve of its own. A good OS is one that for the most part you shouldn't have to think about as a standard user. Linux is not such a OS.

[jeff061]

It may depend on the system and the drivers available. The installations I did were a matter of next, next, next finish, everything you need is setup by default including the partitioning. Installing applications were done with RPM's, which were handled the same way as an executable.

Emulators in general are hit an miss on any platform.

[Franklinnoble]

I still think Microsoft should make the Windows 9x code open source.

People would still buy XP/Longhorn (vista?) for its robustness and Active Directory interoperability, but there would be a nice free alternative for those with less means.

And then we could stop with all this linux desktop nonsense. Linux is a nice server OS, and it's a nice workstation OS for specialists, but most of your applications are still Windows.

[PackerFanatic]

I agree they should make the code open source, but I don't think they EVER would. Bill Gates is too much of a tight ass for that.

[Franklinnoble]

I agree they should make the code open source, but I don't think they EVER would. Bill Gates is too much of a tight ass for that.
Maybe, but he would head off any future anti-trust lawsuits by doing so.