Computer breakdown again

[Goldseeker]

Yesterday evening, my computer went dead for the second time in about five months.   Luckily I only lost all the programs that operate the thing.   I am now in the middle of rebuilding/reinstalling everything but the problem I have now is that I have lost all tthe email addresses that everyone has given me.

Can those persons who have communicated with me by email please retrans your email to me by a PM message please.  I shall acknowledge all the addresses i get.

It will take several days before I am fully functional again so I am asking for a bit of patience if you email me and for me to respond.

Thanks.

[trout]

Yesterday evening, my computer went dead for the second time in about five months.   Luckily I only lost all the programs that operate the thing.   I am now in the middle of rebuilding/reinstalling everything but the problem I have now is that I have lost all tthe email addresses that everyone has given me.

Can those persons who have communicated with me by email please retrans your email to me by a PM message please.  I shall acknowledge all the addresses i get.

It will take several days before I am fully functional again so I am asking for a bit of patience if you email me and for me to respond.

Thanks.

Windows 8 allows you to back up using Ecloud similar to the backup with iPhones :good:

[Fulvio]

Oh dear... didn't we have a discussion about nine million years ago about Macs vs PC's, in which meltdowns like this featured prominently?

Feel free to add my new email addy, fulvio55@icloud.com, which goes well with my new iPod.

[trout]

Oh dear... didn't we have a discussion about nine million years ago about Macs vs PC's, in which meltdowns like this featured prominently

Microsoft have addressed this problem with win8, Why the agro about the average PC ? we all know that Mac's are more reliable due to their Unix platform.
But the cost factor for these machines is beyond most people.
IMHO a standard pc running a free version of Linux is just as good as a Mac:yahoo:
Anyway I am sticking to Blindows because it is dos based and is what I know :good:.

[Fulvio]

Win8??? Ewwwww... even more universally hated than Vista ever was, and that's the MS lemmings saying that.

As for cost factor, any halfway-decent machine is going to cost a grand. Macs are no dearer than PC's unless they come from Aldi or some backyard chop shop.

Yes, Linux is a good way to go, but novices are not going to go there. They're going to hop down to Hardly Normal, wave money around and walk out with whatever M$ box the salesman flogs them, and then go through hell over the next few years as it melts down repeatedly. I spent many years rescuing such people from their poor decisions, and they always ended up blowing far more than they would have spent if they'd bought a Mac in the first place and skipped the grief.

[Goldseeker]

All done now.  Fixed and back up and running.   Hope it doesn't happen again.