[WT-support] I'm Back.... Wintest Cluster Success !

[Andrew O'Brien]

Rudy.  I used to be scared but after    doing it once some years ago
with no option, I found that there is not much on my PC that I
actually HAVE to have.  The really important stuff was...

1.  My ham logbook
2. Purchased Itunes music (for the kid's Ipods)
3. Photographs


That was it, all the rest I can download again from the Internet ,
since most ham software is free.  And things like drivers for the
soundcard and printer were on CD but also downloadable ,  if I lost
the CD.
For software licenses , like Wintest, I use web email so I do not
erase, so after the reformat I just search my gmail account for the
4-5 items that I need to re-enter a registration key.

As long as you have a CD with you OS on it, it is not as bad as it used to be.

I am looking forward to getting to know Wintest even more this weekend,

Andy K3UK



On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Rudolf Schwenger
<rudolf.schwenger at t-online.de> wrote:
> Congrats, Andy! I wished I would be as brave as you. It scares me to death
>  to reformat the hard disk and reload everything from scratch.... I rather
>  buy a new computer....
>
>  vy 73 de Rudy, DJ3WE
>
>
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Andrew O'Brien" <andrewobrie at gmail.com>
>  To: <support at win-test.com>
>  Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 1:10 PM
>  Subject: [WT-support] I'm Back.... Wintest Cluster Success !
>
>
>  > Thanks to all that gave suggestions.  I spent a week trouble shooting.
>  > I got a weird firewall problem fixed after two days of searching for
>  > a fix and felt that would do it, but no luck. I thought my sytem was
>  > working OK but, accidentally, I discovered I could not update system
>  > time via the various internet time servers.  So, I figured it was time
>  > to reformat the HD, it has been used for 3 years and was time anyway.
>  > I backed up everything, reformatted and reinstalled Windows XP.
>  > Wintest was the first program I installed and the DX Cluster monitor
>  > worked on the first attempt !
>  >
>  >
>  > So now I have a fully featured WT and a faster PC , no malware (for now).
>  > --
>  > Andy K3UK
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>  > (QSL via N2RJ)
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Andy K3UK
www.obriensweb.com
(QSL via N2RJ)