What a nightmare this has been... lost everything on my computer,,,don't install explorer eight

[charlie (ky)]

Ten years worth of stuff just vanished.

I was told to install explorer eight to correct a problem I had with my blog. It caused problems with my mail. Two hours with Dell help desk , more problems , two more hours. Called next day,lots of stuff wrong. was told the first one removed a program improperly and I will have to restore back to date of purchase...NNNNOOOOOOOOO

I managed to put all my photos on dvd,but the computer had crashed to the point I could not access any other files or programs.

I spent more that 10 hours this week trying to get this thing fixed. Unless you know how to back up everything, don't keep your pass words on computer. uuhghghhghg,,, now hunting for scraps of paper where I know I wrote something done about passwords.

I miss my old computer,, doesn't feel and look the same. Kinda like the guy in the movie " Cherry 2000".I want my old girl friend back PHOOY

 

[Butch in Colorado]

IE8 is not even out of Beta testing yet. For someone to make a recomendation to you to go to IE8 to fix a problem leads me to believe that they had no clue as to what the initial problem was and swept you into their shortcomings. Sorry to hear that you lost all of your data. Get yourself an external drive and back-up those things that you feel you cannot live without.

I know it is too late now but with XP and Vista you do have restore points you can fall back to. I'm not sure if that would have helped you based on your description.

Western Digital as well as many other hard drive companies have several desktop drives for this very thing. A 1TB back-up system can be had for under $200.00 and even less if you don't need all that drive space. As a matter of fact, I have a 750GB Western Digital My Book Home Edition drive headed my way tomorrow to back up all of my stuff I cannot live without.

Cherry 2000 was HOT!!!

I do like the restore partitions that Dell has come out with on their newer computers. It is nice to be able to reinstall everything without having to find all the danged driver files when I end up having to rebuild a system (Just don't ever delete that partition though.). I just bought a new Dell XPS 420 and gave my XPS 400 to my wife. A couple of clicks later she had a "new" computer. Sweet!

 

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