>I know this is off the VFP subject, but I searched the MS Knowledgebase and didn't find the answer I was looking for.
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>Someone called me almost in tears.
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>They loaded Windows 3.1 over the top of Windows 95 in error. I found this out after troubleshooting their Windows 95 problem over the phone for about an hour.
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>They told me when they called that they had only loaded Word for Windows in error. They forgot to mention that they had installed Windows 3.1 also. Yikes!!!
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>I told them to copy their personal documents to floppies and then reinstall Windows 95. Does anybody know an easier solution? Of course, I will have to show them how to copy files in DOS mode and change directories and all that good stuff.
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In addition to their documents, I'd have them boot from a Win95 recovery disk and back up registry and .INI files as well, and do a complete reinstall; the best result you could hope for would be likely to be worse than what you got from upgrading Win3.1 to Win95.
Any purely DOS apps should be backed up entirely; there's a good chance that the DOS app wasn't directly affected by their accident.
I'd also seriously consider a from scratch install of Win98 or ME; both are more stable than 95, and offer major advantages over Win95 if they've enough memory and processor.
It might be a good time to examine replacing the machine entirely; you can pick up an entry-level emachine or the equivalent with a clean OS install, better hardware (with a warranty on it) faster equpment, etc for relatively little money - no need for new monitor, printer, etc, just the main box. You can use LapLink or the equivalent to transfer stuff off the machine; a cable for transferring via the parallel port would mke it easy to move stuff between machines, and there's a lot less chance of forgetting to back up something or screwing things up even worse; you end up with a fallback position in the process as well. And after everything gets set up on the new machine, they have the old machine to take home or harvest for parts.
>And of course they have no backup. Backup? Did someone say backup? What's that? LOL!
