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This is MY rule based on experience over the years with XP...

AVOID doing a repair install unless it is the LAST option, especially
if you have many programs installed, and drivers...

Repairing mostly causes unpredictable trouble and chaos on a machine that
has lots of programs
installed....

The more complex a setup is, the more things can go wrong.

The best way to solve problems is not with nuclear warheads, but to track
down the problems and fix them... if things are too screwed up, I would
personally prefer to format and reinstall than do a repair install.
 
Isn't a complete re-install rather like "killing a fly with a nuclear
warhead"?

Pardon me for using your words.. I know how you guys just love quotes.. :)

kirk jim said:
This is MY rule based on experience over the years with XP...

AVOID doing a repair install unless it is the LAST option, especially
if you have many programs installed, and drivers...

Repairing mostly causes unpredictable trouble and chaos on a machine that
has lots of programs
installed....

The more complex a setup is, the more things can go wrong.

The best way to solve problems is not with nuclear warheads, but to track
down the problems and fix them... if things are too screwed up, I would
personally prefer to format and reinstall than do a repair install.
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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
I said if you had no other solution and too many thing were going wrong..

he said he has a problem with his photo button skipping images...

I would persist and find a solution to that.. not format..
But certainly not do a repair install either!!!

The real problem is vista itself.. I cant use it in a production environment
because
of the myriad of problems and bugs.. as you can see Im still using XP,
and go into Vista only to get used to it for other people who will need my
advice...

IF (and that is a huge if) they fix vista with SP1 then I might think of
migrating for good...
 
I don't see a suggestion from you at all..

a repair install may well cure this and al of the other BUGS that the OP
believes he has..
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Is that an admission that the Vista installer can misinstall Vista?

Curious minds want to know, of course asking a MVP anything rarely
produces any answers worth knowing, but heck, so damn much fun to ask.
 
Another quote.. this is the second part of the OP question..


"There are so many bizarre bugs in this OS that it MUST be early beta.
Search doesn't find JPEGs with the same series name sitting right beside
each other in the same folder and now this."


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
Isn't a complete re-install rather like "killing a fly with a nuclear
warhead"?

Pardon me for using your words.. I know how you guys just love quotes.. :)
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Everybody LOVES smartass MVPs because they're always so helpful.

<wide grin>
 
Another quote.. this is the second part of the OP question..


"There are so many bizarre bugs in this OS that it MUST be early beta.
Search doesn't find JPEGs with the same series name sitting right beside
each other in the same folder and now this."


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
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So? If you spent half as much time answering somebody's question as
you do nitpicking the form of the question or asking why the question
was asked or implying it has been asked and answered before, your
presence here may be of some minimal value besides serving to stroke
your bloated ego.

That's how I see it. ;-)
 
Congratulations on bringing yet another posting to its knees.. you must be
losing count of the posts you have successfully trashed..
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Imagine how many threads smartass MVP's have mucked up.
 
I'm using the forward arrow to look at pictures in the Windows Photo Gallery
and it's skipping pictures right and left, going from 12 to 18 to 26, etc.
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The viewer uses whatever the sort-style of the folder is. You
probably have it on Date Created/Modified/etc.

I guess Microsoft was trying to "help" us here. Sigh.

Austin
<snip>
 
Yes the same way that they refused to use XP at first.

It's very common for the government to wait for a couple years before
adopting an OS.

Even with Linux/Unix variants.
 
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