A post regarding Windows 2000.

[reynardo]

A thought that has occurred to me upon the occasion of upgrading the computer to Windows 2000.

FUCK!!!!!!!
SMEG!!!!
NO SOUND NO SCREEN NO FUCKING MODEM FOR HOURS AND THEN THE NERVE TO TRY AND INSTALL SMEGGING AT&T DRIVERS AND DISABLE NORTONS I DON"T THINK SO!!!!!

I curse Bill gates. I curse him with darkness and with blue screens. I curse him with broken fingers and blistered feet. I curse him with a three-metre aura around him within which machines die and electricity itself fails. I curse his mind that he might never increase his fortune, I curse his hands that he might never again call for an upgraded OS, and I curse his feet that they might not rest calmly until he has walked a metre for every hour of the techies' time he has ever ever wasted.

No, I don't really feel better.

Comments

Upgrading?

[ex-cerebrate131.livejournal.com]

Not from Windows 9x/Me, by any chance?

If you're still trying to do that, or even if you've got it working, stop now. Reformat. Install from fresh.

Trust me on this one: that trick never works. If you can get some Microsoft people alone and buy them drinks, they'll even tell you that - the evil internal juggling they have to do to make the old registry resemble the new registry is a very, very long way from reliable. Hell, I wouldn't even try NT4 -> 2000, myself.

Even if it looks like it's working, it *will* go horribly wrong later on, or at the very least be militantly unreliable compared to a fresh install.

*sigh*

I have so felt your pain in the past with this one.

[stilkil.livejournal.com]

Tried a new install of 2000 on a new freshly formatted hard drive last night.
Wouldn't boot after the install. Twice. Didn't even get as _far_ as a blue screen. Gave up at midnight.
No, I don't want to talk about it ;-/