| p.s. If you're running XP, you should be able to skip that drive image saga and just use System Restore. If you're as OS-distrustful as me, you can manually create the restore point before installing SDC |
Restore points do *not* work, they do not restore your registry to it's initial condition. They only *true* restore is to take an image of the boot drive with the OS inert. I boot with a floppy, take the image and if anything goes wrong I'm guaranteed to get back to my original state with no extraneous keys left over in my registry. Backup and System Restore are crap.
If I had my druthers, I’d still be on windows for workgroups 3.11. If it wasn’t for DirectX I’d still be on Windows 95 today. A PC is a “personal computer” there is no reason I should have to log on to my own personal computer. I want my PC to do what I want, when I want and not do anything unless I tell it to. None of this phone home crap or deciding for itself what it should do. I don’t want any pop up messages telling me that there’s no internet connection available and asking me if I want to work offline. I know the internet connection isn’t available because I turned the power off on my router and I don’t need to have a pop up pull me out of my full screen app to tell me about it.
I’ve designed computers, workstations, PC’s and network equipment my entire adult life. In the 30 years that I’ve been an engineer, CPU processing speeds, memory sizes and speeds and pretty much all computer related hardware has increased in performance by at least 1,000 and probably closer to 10,000 times. The net system performance improvement inclusive of software at the most generous assessment has increased by 10 times. Software has wasted hardware performance improvements of at least 100 times. 2 orders of magnitude. Pitiful.
So to answer your question, yes, I’m “old school”.
