Subj : Re: XP's Shutdown File
To : Ed Vance
From : Nick Andre
Date : Wed Dec 28 2016 08:14 pm
On 09 Dec 16 21:05:00, Ed Vance said the following to All:
EV> Does anyone know where XP stores the file it makes when either choosing
EV> the Turn Off or Hibernate options and it says "Savings Settings....."?
EV>
EV> I would like to Delete that file using a Ubuntu Live CD so hopefully
EV> the next time I turn the XP pc Off it will make a new file without any
EV> settings in it that was held over from times when I was having troubles
EV> when XP wasn't behaving as it should.
As someone who has worked in the trenches in IT, fixing hundreds if not
thousands of computers over a now-20-year span of time... I can tell you that
deleting or modifying Windows system files in the way you are suggesting is
asking for trouble.
Why not just set a system restore point, or do an image of the Windows
partition when it is "behaving as it should". When it doesn't work, revert
back accordingly.
Every Windows computer worth my time has been properly imaged; so any
"problems" are easily corrected by restoring from the image media.
No more Ubuntu, no more hackery.
Nick
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