[RTTY] [YCCC] Windows XP Pro OR Vista?

[Andrei Stchislenok]

Don and all,

When I turned my computer last Friday evening I saw this message on the
monitor:
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Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup using the
original Setup CD-ROM.
Select ' r ' at the first screen to start repair.
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This message sounds to me as a nonsense. I am a user not a programmer, hi
Keyboard is not functioning so I can't select anything... Bought this
computer second hand cheap few years ago from someone, no CD.

Anyway, I was going to upgrade my computer and now I have some excuse to go
and spend hard earned dollars. I also spoke to my MIT guys from the company
I work for, they will check it out tomorrow.
I had there all my LoTW Golden keys, all DXCC and WAS logs and files, ohh,
lots of my Ham Radio stuff was there... Hopefully, I will be able to recover
some of them... Well, things happen...

Placed an order this morning in Tigerdirect, will see what I will get. In
two or three days I should receive their computer - IBM with TWO com ports -
I love DB-9 serial ports. Plus 8 USB ports etc.
Paid $199 plus $2.01 for shipping. Honestly, this deal looks (to me) kinda
too cheap, but maybe this is OK... (keep my fingers crossed)

I will keep you guys informing. And thanks to all for advises, especially to
Jerry, W4UK. I can see that about 70-75% are going for Windows XP; the rest
are using Vista, Linux, Mac...


2008/12/8, DJToman <don at toman.com>:
>
> I wouldn't panic.
>
> First response would be to try to find out what "crashed." Replacement hard
> drives are cheap, and if you have a desktop, it probably has room for a
> second drive. I recently bought a second drive for one of my Dell desktops
> for $25...delivered. If it's your hard drive that failed, there are any
> number of companies that will restore it for a reasonable fee.
>
> Personally, I avoid Windows. I now run various flavors of Linux on all but
> one of my machines ( I have and use six...not counting my Palm TX or my
> wife's Mac notebook or iPod Touch). The one I don't run Linux on is an old
> Dell P-100 that runs Win 98SE. I use it to run CT/DOS, and my logger. It
> also handles Win-Test pretty well. It has two LPT ports, six COM ports, a
> six-port USB hub, and sits on my internal network through an ethernet NIC.
> Sure, it's clunky for surfing the web...but I don't use it for that. It's
> good enough for downloading CTY and SCP files...
>
> My Linux machines are dual-boot, with Win XP Pro...but I hardly ever boot
> into Windows, and usually regret it while waiting for all the Windows
> security software to update, scan, burp and crap out.
>
> Many Windows ham programs run fine under the WINE API emulator under Linux.
> As an example, Echolink runs perfectly that way, and Win-Test does as well.
> I've yet to try running FreeDOS under Linux, but I'll bet it does well.
>
> Previous-generation computers, capable of running Win XP or Linux or both
> are dirt cheap. Last year, I bought a Dell Latitude D-800 laptop off lease
> for $400. It has a 1.7 GHz Pentium M, a super high-res screen, built-in
> wireless, firewire, USB, CD/DVD R/W drive, 200 G hard drive, 1 G RAM,
> ethernet port, modem, PCMCIA slots...AND an LPT port and COM port. I run
> both Linux and Win XP Pro on it...and the battery works.
>
> Have fun...
>
> Don...K2KQ
>
>
> Andrei Stchislenok wrote:
>
>> Hello al:
>>
>> I have bad news and good news.
>>
>> Bad news is my main desktop computer crashed this Friday evening, lost
>> everything there, all stuff. It was running Windows XP Pro.
>>
>> Good news is I can go now and shop around to buy a new one for Christmas
>> gift for myself. Oh, well.
>>
>> Thinking - what OS to purchase? Windows XP Pro or Vista?
>>
>> Saw plenty of inexpensive computers everywhere running Vista, but scared a
>> bit, not familiar.
>>
>> Heard that not all Ham radio programms are operational with Vista.
>> However,
>> progress cannot be stopped; I heard that too.
>>
>> What should I do? XP or Vista?
>>
>> Christmas is coming.
>>
>> Any thoughts/advises will be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>
>


-- 
73's Andrei
EW1AR-NP3D
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