If it Ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT! or How to screw your pc in one easy step!
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So I get a regular email newsletter from ZDNet/Cnet, a well known & reputable tech outfit. This week's newsletter talks about a program that they have that scans your pc for drivers & lists which of them may/may not need updating. It then gives you active links to the manufacturers sites to download the needed drivers. So far so good! I run the scanner, find 8 or so drivers that apparantly need updating (mind you my pc IS working just fine up to this point). So I download them (confirming that they are all from the manufacturers), and install them. Reboot & VOILA instant and continual BSOD on every reboot. Safe mode you say? Heck no... more BSOD's. System restore... NAH! No good AND to add to my displeasure, now I'm missing data as well!! I go back a couple system restore points... STILL missing data... but at least I can now boot into safe mode (where i'm at now, desperately backing what's left, to my external HD). Data recovery program to find the missing data you suggest? Well partially successful, but my email apparantly is TOTALLY lost back to 2004.
Tto add insult to injury, one of our 2 dvd players died a horrible death, AND I scratched the screen on our brand new LCD TV (which of course isn't covered under the warranty), ALL TODAY!
This is NOT my idea of an enjoyable Saturday.
So I get a regular email newsletter from ZDNet/Cnet, a well known & reputable tech outfit. This week's newsletter talks about a program that they have that scans your pc for drivers & lists which of them may/may not need updating. It then gives you active links to the manufacturers sites to download the needed drivers. So far so good! I run the scanner, find 8 or so drivers that apparantly need updating (mind you my pc IS working just fine up to this point). So I download them (confirming that they are all from the manufacturers), and install them. Reboot & VOILA instant and continual BSOD on every reboot. Safe mode you say? Heck no... more BSOD's. System restore... NAH! No good AND to add to my displeasure, now I'm missing data as well!! I go back a couple system restore points... STILL missing data... but at least I can now boot into safe mode (where i'm at now, desperately backing what's left, to my external HD). Data recovery program to find the missing data you suggest? Well partially successful, but my email apparantly is TOTALLY lost back to 2004.
Tto add insult to injury, one of our 2 dvd players died a horrible death, AND I scratched the screen on our brand new LCD TV (which of course isn't covered under the warranty), ALL TODAY!
This is NOT my idea of an enjoyable Saturday.