To: Robert Proffitt- the expert

Bob was letting you know that posting a problem in the middle of an old thread will probably receive no help.

And he noted that if Bootvis toasted your system, reinstall XP. He didn't have on all CAPS so he wasn;t yelling at you, just used very few words. Bob is a great help here so don't get to excited and read on.

Bootvis can screw up your system, and although I am no expert on it, I think the only way to fix it is to reinstall.

Try doing a repair install if you have a real XP disk.
If you have a retore disk only you might be doing a full restore. I have used an OEM XP disk from other systems to do a repair install on HP and Compaq factory systems and it worked fine. Use your product key that came with the system, should be on a sticker.

You will have to activate it after the reinstall if you use an outside OEM disk but it will activate OK.

To find how to do a repair install:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Good Luck

Merl,
Thanks for your comments. I can see from the number of posts Bob has made and the time he spends in doing so, he is an expert and has tons of experience. I was, neither, expecting handholding and spoon feeding, nor did I expect introductory nicities of the orient. I have learnt that very often it is not what you say but how you say it. Anyway, I am new and learning. I will also be careful about what I read in this forum.
I got a new XP Pro with all updates incl SP2 and installed to overcome startup problem.
Peace, zeeman

Peter,
I have good bedside manners, knowledge and see a lot of people in Africa who cant pay for medical sevices.
zeeman

When you come down from your high horse of benevolences, the people in Africa are a horse of a different colour (no inference on skin colour intended) - I was born and spent some years in Africa, and know the native people to be humble and grateful for what ever help they receive, or in what form the help is delivered - there expectations are low and their gratitude is high - in this type of environment it is easy to have a warm bedside manner as all one gets is praise and accolade
The converse is true in forums such as these, where expectation are selfishly unrealistic and praise is almost non existent - And where 9 out of 10 people dont even respond to your efforts, never mind a simple "thank you" - given this environment, I would like to see you still have your benevolent bedside manner after 38,000 posts in only a 2 year period!!
Besides, your attack on Bob was not consistent with the post and I fail to see how you can justify such personal attacks given the circumstances.
Granted, Bob can appear abrupt and business like, but he is a great source of knowledge, and if you want help, I suggest you get used to it, as you are not dealing with humble african people in this forum.
Peter

'when in Rome' and all that neat stuff.

No wonder I am so tired - it must be all that travelling I do every night lol!!!!!
Beside is Canada part of Nth America??? (not if the French Canadians had there way it wouldn't be)

Peter

i was referring to North America in a contigious sort of way.

No definitely Canadian.

If the French had their way they would seccede to France except that France does not want them.

Visited your fair city twice.

Loved 'the cross'.

I know why you said, "This is North America", because CNET is based in the US, but in reality it isn't.

Many people who read and post in these forums live in other countries, (I'm in the UK for instance), and so these forums are, really, international, with no home.

Just thought I would make that point,

Mark

Pan galactic?

Its a corporative defense in this forum and the argument is allways about money when somebody complains,its really sad, because its a very good forum but think only for reading and learning from other posts and answeres, but beware of posting and then dare to complain, people feel like never posting again. so much anger, I really think its a forum only for people with EEU mentality, where money is the most important, as I can see from all the answeres here.

you can expect your $85-250 an hour personal technician to hold your hand and say "awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, diddums, it'll be alright soon"....

these days there are people who log on at 08:00 to post "why is my computer running slow!" and then at 09:00 are screaming "why haven't i been handed a solution on a silver platter"....


wake up vera, smell the coffee, inhale the good, exhale the bad....


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When people get "something for nothing" there is an association made in the mind of a lack of "worth" not only for the item itself, but also for the person associated with providing that item.
Its a trait of human nature that has mystified psychology students, and therefore many studies have been made into the subject.
It goes against logic, in that, one would expect a person to have more respect and worth for someone that provides an item for a lesser amount, but the converse is true.

and not talking about Mr. Proffit,(we all know he works hard only trying to help) by the way I have never heard him say he is working hard for no pay,I refered to many others that can be very rude when it comes to defend Mr. proffit,and allways one of the arguments is money, and even if you do not pay for some requierments it gives no right to be offensive, only think about human rights, or poor people that get state benefits, no body deserves to be humilliated only because there is no money on between.
Tank you

I was unemployed for a short time during my younger day so I know what you mean - the government employees treat the unemployed like sheep. However, these Gov people are getting paid for what they do and are probably dissatisfied with their job - once again we get back to the point a few of us trying to make, that is, we are not getting $paid$, and we are not dissatisfied with out work, but that doesn't mean we should be treated with contempt - a little bit of respect and the odd "thank you" is all we ask.
Logic, if we were that obsessed with $$$$$ we wouldn't be waisting our time here giving our services away, we would be chasing the mighty $$$$$$$.
Peter

One of my colleagues noted that...

"Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment you've blown up."

Hope you like that one,

Bob

asking because of "hope you like that one"