BSD Question's.

[Gerard Seibert]

On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 8:35:04 AM
Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay at internode.on.net>
Subject: Re: BSD Question's.
Wrote these words of wisdom:

> I would claim that XP is quite capable of screwing up 
> its system without any real help from the user.
> I installed a HP all-in-one scanner-plotter on my 
> a NEC laptop running XP professional and this worked 
> fairly well until HP suggested I should update the 
> software. Thereafter some minor annoyances/bugs appeared.
> 
> I decided that I should go back to the original so I 
> activated the system unistall utility on the HP software.
> After partly removing the software the utility reported 
> errors; that it could not complete the uninstall.
> 
> Nor would the original installation rerun because it thought
> it was already there. 
> 
> So now I don't have access to the all-in-one. Removing
> all the directories on the machine identified as from HP
> and registry entries in identified as HP allowed some 
> reintallation to proceed but it is incomplete and doesn't
> run.
> 
> I have never experienced this sort of lockout on a FreeBSD 
> system.
> 
> It is looking as though I will need to do a completely new
> XP installation -- which I am not looking forward to.
> 
> It has been said before Windows is OK until something goes 
> wrong; but then it is mostly unfixable.
> 
> Malcolm Kay


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On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied:

Get a copy of JV16 Power Tools and run that. Then check the HP site for
specific programs that DO totally uninstall their software. HP is
notorious for this behavior. Even Symantec on occasion pulls this stunt.

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Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net