I'm glad you have so many happy things to say. As for all those who thanked me for a correct answer, that I guess was their imagination.
But for those of us who prefer not to "investigate" exactly what went wrong, down to the individual lines of code, repair install and restore works quite well. And we don't need to be scientists to accomplish the solutions.
Yup, that's called "Quick and dirty"
In the interest of time and simplicity, I frequently skip research; that's because 90% of the people who ask how to fix these problems just want to fix it, and not to research, and most of them rarely answer the questions we ask them to start researching.
So in the end, the computer becomes fixed, researched or not.
Have you ever noticed that I rarely answer a post until it has been passed over by the other members of this forum? Why don't you answer them?
A: I do. I have 249 post since 5/29/10. Look around.
B: I've grown weary of cleaning up after you.
Some people just appreciate that any person answered, and took the time to consider a solution.
The reality being, that most of the people asking questions in this forum are not even reading the replies we give them, well maybe 1 out of 10.
Or they just leave in disgust seeing the lame answer they got.
I don't hear many constructive answers from you today, but if you have a better idea, why don't you just say so? What's your solution (besides complaining) to the mouse malfunction?
He's going to have to INVESTIGATE, you know, that thing you never learned to do because you don't think it's necessary. That's how REAL answers get found. He's going to need a voltmeter and an oscilloscope. He'll need to open a mouse (or have a ps2 plug with wires attached) and measure and probe. I don't know that he's up to it or has equipment to perform test. I think he has a defective socket, but only an investigation will prove that to be the true problem. You can keep telling him to keep pressing F2 or do a restore point.
here was the question: "cant seem to finish installing SP2 operating system."
and here was your reply: "Yea..... There's a lot of that going around lately, sad it is I tell you, sad."
Boy oh boy, is that some deep intelligent research, or what?
That person got a response of equal or greater value to the question presented (they didn't ask a question and they also didn't get an answer, only an agreeable statement). They qualify for my earlier statement:
If someone comes along and the best they can say is their machine broke... well, they are too far down the food chain of computer literacy to understand anything we might tell them.
Is there any point of getting into the technicalities of Windows with someone that shows up with no better understanding than that? He didn't even ask a question. If he expected more, he should have said more.
I think you are more cynical than you are helpful, you may know a lot about the technical aspects, but you don't really want to help anybody.
Hold on Dr. Spock... 249 post, 2109 points, 4 badges, 14 "Best Answer" awards, 10 of them in the XP formum, and one sanction, all in less than 45 days.
I didn't do that by misleading people with bunk answers so I wouldn't really be of any help.
I think you just post here to take out your underlying frustrations on people with computer problems. I can see that it's been building up for a long time.
My frustrations?? are seeing someone come here for useful advice, instructions or general help with a particular problem with their computer running Windows XP, and then see the misleading, retarded answers you supply. That's frustrating. How long have you seen it building up? I haven't been here 45 days yet.
I read past post and Falcon* is right, you Don't know what you are talking about.