"Auric__" <not.my.real@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> Actually, I read it to mean that the specific system he mentioned
> ("Intel Core Duo CPUs, SATA and WinXP") didn't work. I've used PB/Win 8
> on everything from Win95 & NT4 up to Win2003 without problems. (PB/Win
> 7 also worked on NT3.51; I haven't tried 8 there... yet.) Of course, I
> don't have a "current" system (Pentium III), but then, I don't *write*
> for "current" systems.
The problem description, and exactly what was done to analyze it,
wasn't that clear to me. Personally, before I jumped on an otherwise
known-to-be-reliable compiler, I would probably try an install of the
compiler on a fresh Windows installation. Use something like Norton
Ghost, backup your boot partition, reload a backup made right after
installing Windows fresh (What? Didn't make one? Tsk, tsk! Then
think next time you install Windows; blank DVDs are < $.40 each in
quantity.), install and test the compiler then. If you back up to another
hard drive (cheap these days) or partition, the whole backup, reload,
install, test, reload process takes maybe two hours; much less time
than has already been frittered away in these rantings. :-)
I am meticulous about my production PC, and install nothing that
isn't needed there. Even so, Windows becomes unstable over time.
The problem subject of this thread could be a symptom of this.
Just a few weeks ago I had to reinstall WinXp Pro, which had
become somewhat flaky and unstable after nearly two years. The
longest I had ever gone without reinstalling. At one point, my
scanner stopped working, and for a time I thought the scanner had
"bit the dust".
How did I do it? When I originally installed everything in August of
2005, I made a backup immediately after installing Windows, then
another after installing additional device drivers, then another after
activation, then several more as I installed all my software (my setup
is fairly complex, it takes me several days to do it from scratch). I
do***ented what was done at each step of the way in a 'setup log',
which was backed up and kept. The last thing I install is dated
software like Norton Antivirus, done after the last 'setup' backup.
Then I copy my latest data files to the target PC and make the first
dated, production backup. It was a simple matter to refer to my
2005 setup log, locate the last original setup backup that did not
include any programs that had changed or been updated since,
reload it, and resume installation from there. Took much less time
than if I had installed Windows from scratch, I didn't have to bother
with Microsoft's flaky activation process, which sometimes requires
you to call in and takes 20 minutes. My system is now rock solid,
and the scanner works perfectly; used it this morning.
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Judson McClendon judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
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