Die*wrek*show
16th November 2003, 09:35
My computer is crashing so much now this was my only hope. I posted this question on another forum which I am a long time member, they could not help at all.
If I click start, the right click on my computer, then follow the path:
properties>advanced>startup and recovery settings in the default operating system field it says<"Microsoft Windows Whistler Personal" /fastdetect>
I have a Hewlitt Packard computer. I talked to a computer tech that said sometimes they sell an os that looks like xp but is actually some beta between win2000 and xp. This computer is fairly unstable, even after different formats of the hard drive. Besides right clicking on my computer and looking at general properties, is there another way to tell if you've got a patched os that is really not xp 5.1 2600? There was a thread about an OS with the code named Odyssey?? Please anyone with some knowledge about OS's post some facts about 2000 or XP or any OS's between them and their "code names". I'm lost here, and the crashes are happening more often. I cannot reformat, this computer is shared and I'm about to lose privelages altogether. I would not have time to re-install everything. One last thing, I ran JV16power tools registry cleaner and it found like 600+ bad entries. Is it safe to delete all of them? I wish there was an option to do a "light" registry clean.
Edit: I don't know if its relevant but I recently installed a bunch of patches(about 1 week) on top of sp1a(installed that about2 months ago). There are 4 patches that worry me because they are pre sp4 or something. They are q814033,q810565,q329115,q329390. Should I uninstall those 4?
If I click start, the right click on my computer, then follow the path:
properties>advanced>startup and recovery settings in the default operating system field it says<"Microsoft Windows Whistler Personal" /fastdetect>
I have a Hewlitt Packard computer. I talked to a computer tech that said sometimes they sell an os that looks like xp but is actually some beta between win2000 and xp. This computer is fairly unstable, even after different formats of the hard drive. Besides right clicking on my computer and looking at general properties, is there another way to tell if you've got a patched os that is really not xp 5.1 2600? There was a thread about an OS with the code named Odyssey?? Please anyone with some knowledge about OS's post some facts about 2000 or XP or any OS's between them and their "code names". I'm lost here, and the crashes are happening more often. I cannot reformat, this computer is shared and I'm about to lose privelages altogether. I would not have time to re-install everything. One last thing, I ran JV16power tools registry cleaner and it found like 600+ bad entries. Is it safe to delete all of them? I wish there was an option to do a "light" registry clean.
Edit: I don't know if its relevant but I recently installed a bunch of patches(about 1 week) on top of sp1a(installed that about2 months ago). There are 4 patches that worry me because they are pre sp4 or something. They are q814033,q810565,q329115,q329390. Should I uninstall those 4?