The following is a plan that can save a lot of time.
1. After you do a fresh install of windows and done all the updates make an
image of the drive in this condition before you install any programs other
than of course your screen reader.
2. Install all the programs you usually use and don't want to have to
reinstall. Now do an image of your drive in this condition.
If you need to reinstall Windows to a clean install without any applications
installed because perhaps you want different applications, Use the first
image.
If you want the system back to a fresh install of Windows along with your
usual applications, do a restore of the second image.
This saves you a lot of work.
Of course, these two images do not include any user documents since you
haven't created them yet such as those contained in My documents. You back
up this information separately and restore it after you do image 2.
Another point to help you backup all your data. Unless there is some good
reason or some application won't allow, always store all your documents in
the "My Documents" folder. The reason for this as follows: you will know
where all your documents are located and won't have to do a search of your
system. Simply, Backup only "MY Documents" and you have everything.
The only items that won't be in your "My Documents" folder are your
contacts and items contained in your e-mail program's in-box.
Of course, you should backup your contacts to your "My Documents"
occasionally, especially if you have a lot of contacts and then they will be
saved.
Sorry for the long post.
73
Howard #3
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Fw: [BlindTech] Sluggishness and Microsoft Security
Essentials ServiceStopped
> To be honest, if you're starting from scratch, that's exactly what I mean,
> reinstall windows from the CD, reinstall all programs from scratch. IF you
> make an image of the hard drive or copy it to another then copy it back,
> that's great if you have a failing drive, want to put in a bigger hard
> drive
> but if you're having problems, that's just going to at least bring the
> problems with you and could make it worse. I don't suggest backing up the
> hard drive if it needs to be formatted and everything reinstalled from
> scratch, I actually advise strongly against. Backing up information is
> something you need to be doing right along, you can't wait until you have
> a
> problem, then decide to back everything up to try to fix it because you
> will
> back up the problem. I backup all my documents I don't want to lose every
> couple weeks, downloaded programs I don't want to lose get backed up
> regularly. I've worked on computers long enough , seen and had enough odd
> failures over the years, I probably have as many as 5 copies of the real
> important stuff between external hard drive that's regularly on my
> computer,
> the one I back everything up on, and a flash drive at least, I have one
> flash drive for all radio stuff, one for everything else, used to have one
> for school when I was in college. Those are backed up as well on the
> backup
> hard drive. I can have a crash tomorrow on my main computer and I won't
> lose
> much if anything, it happened in April and I don't think I lost anything
> but
> the time to get another computer going.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 7:40 AM
> Subject: Re: OT: Fw: [BlindTech] Sluggishness and Microsoft Security
> Essentials ServiceStopped
>
>
>> John, that all sounds very good. But let's say you have another drive to
>> back things up on and you copy everything over to it. Then you reformat
>> your hard drive and recopy everything back over. How do you know you
>> aren't
>> recopying all those fragments, bad files Etc.?
>> Harvey
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 6:14 AM
>> Subject: Re: OT: Fw: [BlindTech] Sluggishness and Microsoft Security
>> Essentials ServiceStopped
>>
>>
>>> If you have multiple antivirus programs on your computer, that's a
>>> problem
>>> in itself and usually ms security essentials will be disabled. Also,
>>> when
>>> do
>>> you get this message? IF it's at start up or while installing updates,
>>> that
>>> happens and once it's done booting up and what not it will run the
>>> program
>>> fine on it's own, if in the middle of just every day use,there's
>>> something
>>> going on. Ms security essentials will update when you get windows
>>> updates
>>> so
>>> you don't need to manually update it, if the system tray thing says the
>>> computer may not be protected, it's time to do a scan. If it's still
>>> running
>>> slow after all those scans, I have to wonder a couple things. 1, have
>>> you
>>> done a defrag on the drive? Also, how long have you run the system since
>>> a
>>> complete reformat and reinstall? After a while, there's just so much
>>> stuff
>>> that builds up, fragments of old programs and what not, even though some
>>> say
>>> with newer systems you don't have that problem but any heavily used
>>> system
>>> I
>>> find will eventually be so weighed down with stuff after a few years it
>>> will
>>> need to be reformatted and started from scratch. If there is a trogen or
>>> something on there and no program is finding it, same thing.
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