What a mess with programs
It gets difficult, or impossible, after a system cleaning up, to put all the programs back. Every time we reinstall the Operative System is the same. A little for the OS, and weeks for the programs, at least in my case. From audio and video codecs to watch the films, to the programs for working. Video and Mother Board drivers, MS Office 2003, restoring the mail and contacts data, ActiveSync for the PDA, Firefox, the Firefox bookmarks, Picassa, Google Desktop Search, Java SDK, Flash plugins, QuickTime, WinAmp, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Foobar2000, MSN Messenger, BitTorrent, eMule, Guitar Pro, Skype, and very important, the updates for Windows. Sure that if I take a look in my pc the list will grow more.
It's incredible, but if our computer got broken, we will never be able to put it back exactly as we had it previously, unless we use some backup method. I decline using full backup methods in my system because it requires a lot of memory and, because I keep my system up to date, a backup will be valid only for two weeks. But installing the programs is the less of our problems. The worst is to reconfigure the applications.
Firefox, in my case, require reinstalling plug-ins, extensions, configuring each extension, and reorganizing the buttons. In outlook I have to organize emails accounts and the folders. In the system, user accounts, net configurations, wallpaper (not essential, but it's cool). And here it is where all programs fail. You can configure them but they are no that easy to make a backup of the configuration. So for our applications list, the amount of work is multiplied.
No operative system, at the moment, offers solutions to this problem. There are programs that help us to make a backup. There are for Firefox and Thunderbird. Outlook can make its own backup copies of mails and contacts, but not the email accounts. So we have a backup program for each we have installed.
In the end I understand why people are so lazy to clean up and reinstall the system. It's better to not have to reconfigure anything. ^_^U
It's incredible, but if our computer got broken, we will never be able to put it back exactly as we had it previously, unless we use some backup method. I decline using full backup methods in my system because it requires a lot of memory and, because I keep my system up to date, a backup will be valid only for two weeks. But installing the programs is the less of our problems. The worst is to reconfigure the applications.
Firefox, in my case, require reinstalling plug-ins, extensions, configuring each extension, and reorganizing the buttons. In outlook I have to organize emails accounts and the folders. In the system, user accounts, net configurations, wallpaper (not essential, but it's cool). And here it is where all programs fail. You can configure them but they are no that easy to make a backup of the configuration. So for our applications list, the amount of work is multiplied.
No operative system, at the moment, offers solutions to this problem. There are programs that help us to make a backup. There are for Firefox and Thunderbird. Outlook can make its own backup copies of mails and contacts, but not the email accounts. So we have a backup program for each we have installed.
In the end I understand why people are so lazy to clean up and reinstall the system. It's better to not have to reconfigure anything. ^_^U
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