Re: I think it might be time ...

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"Neal" <nbrown12@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> ?Where is this automatic update?
>
> Neal
>
>
> VickieHerndonCMT wrote:
>> Well, someone here had the same problem with the Microsoft download of a
>> couple of weeks ago. The ease of usability of XP made it so you could
>> just go to system restore and choose the date that you wanted it to go
>> back to. That did the trick and then I turned off the automatic update
>> thing.
>>
>> <bigapple2005@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1129077380.396691.34390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>>Wow, it's unanimous! I guess I've got my answer. Vickie, I downloaded
>>>an update from Microsoft one time (with Windows 98), and it rendered my
>>>system completely useless ... I had to reformat the entire hard drive
>>>while waiting for my trans company's IT department to set me up again.
>>>What a nightmare. That should have been my answer there. My roommate
>>>and I are on a network, and she has Win XP, and I sooooooo hate it, but
>>>I guess it's time to get with it. I'll be saying hello to 2005 here
>>>pretty soon.
>>>
>>>
>>>"Do you know what happens when you slice a golf ball in half? Someone
>>>gets mad at you. I found this out the hard way." Jack Handey
>>>
>>
>>

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