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Re: [OM] OT: Win7 Problem

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Win7 Problem
From: Ralf Loi <ralf_loi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 10:52:28 +0100
<<
No.  This has come to an end.  I've been trying to fix this damned Win7 OS 
ever since it was given to me due to the incompetent fellow who installed 
it, making the machine close to unusable.  It not for AVAST, it might 
still be marginal, but by way of it and then SFC the bulk of the problems 
have been remedied, but only to find that the base problem with Win7 safe 
mode was due to planned obsolesance, writing a PCMCIA driver so that it 
was incompatible with earlier hardware, forcing users to unnecessarily 
replace perfectly good hardware.
>>

Sometimes things cannot be fixed, and is way better to just clean 
reinstall. I have a 2006 laptop, used at work for some 5 years and then 
bought. It had XP installed, I used it that way until the OS was no longer 
supported, and then completely reinstalled (*). For that I just bought for 
a mere 21 Euro a Win7 Professional SP1 32 bit DVD with an original license 
key, so I'm able to update the laptop with the MS fixes (**). It contains 
also a WinXP mode, for the use of the couple of software that don't run on 
Win7. Win7 will receive fixes (at least) until 2020.

Ralf

(*) Just backup first your data, I use also to save installation files
(**) Not installing security updates makes your PC vulnerable to attacks, 
an anti virus alone does very little. 

Final note: if you want to use internet you need to have an up-to-date OS, 
this is the price to pay for the convenience

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