Sad week for me

[JosephH]

LOL bad stuff followed me this week

well some bad happen and some good anyways

got my back up computer fixed the motherboard crapped out and so it was in the shop and the guy fixed it free of charge as it was used but i got it from him and only had it abt 2 weeks before it screwed up so he basically just built me a new system with new parts he had and its better than the old one.

my system that went down on me this week i had him look at and no viruses or malware on it but something with an update messed up the operating system and so cost me 120 bucks to have it cleaned and new os put on.

unfortunately just repairing wasn't working so he had to wipe the drive and totally reinstall os. good thing is my system is cleaned up of old junk in registry etc bad is I lost all the work I did tracing all the parts for the galley Washington and the Swan Class Sloop as well as latest on the Southampton tutorial I had done.

I got the original stuff but none the recent cad stuff as it was on the drive and hadn't got to back it up yet as I do that usually once a month. and some guy had just sent me a really really nice set of cad drawings for a privateer that was done in solidworks and so all the parts were perfect and just got my cherry wood order in from crown timber works for it.

the bad part is the guy sent them out of the blue from one my posts and so lost his info in the redo of my drive. i'm in such a bum mood I was wanting to start building something and i wouldn't have had to do any work on that one.

oh well cest la vie this mail address is not bad most is all saved on line so i didn't lose much of the old stuff ppl sent

at least today got Solidworks 2017 and all my other software installed on this and a new backup image made and recover disk

so ready to get back to doing some drawing

 

[Donnie]

Yep,
I hate it when stuff like this happens. I know (at least from my experience) that Hard Drives have about a 5 year life and then you need to get another and transfer data. I have my PC at home set up that my OS and programs only live on the C: drive. All of my data lives on another drive.
I have also found that after about a year and a half, Windows OS's just go nuts and have to reinstall or buy the next version. My thoughts are that all the adding and deleting "programs" really screws up the registry. I have yet to find the perfect registry cleaner that truly cleans it and removes all orphaned files.
I think that REVO uninstaller is the only one that I know of that can do this.

 

[Aussie048]

Donnie

I use Malwarebytes and have for quite a few years. I had problems with my work pC and I finally made a call to the IT section. The antivirus would not run on my PC was one issue. H installed Malwarebytes. It cleans the Melware as well as cleaning up the registry.

I've run it after my antivirus program has run which also looks at registry entries and Malwarebytes has always picked up something.

I now run it on my home PC

Run your cleaner and then down load and run the trial version of Malwarebytes. I bet it will find issues as well as registry entries.

I have run it after a fresh instll of windows and it finds issues.

Cheers
Geoff

 

[JosephH]

yea i am like you run malware bytes love it but this wasnt a malware it was just something in the operating system got screwed up but this at least is a good warning thread ot other people to back up every night files you may work on just in case

 

[Aussie048]

Another function on computer is back up.

Who has not done a backup of there operating system at all. I have not. I have only had the PC 6 months is my excuse. I think I am 6 months overdue for doing that backup.

Data also should be backed up. USB memory sticks, DVD's. I have a hard drive that is sitting in a USB case. I should use that more often instead of mainly file transfers.

 

[Aussie048]

Another good one is how clean is the inside of your PC. You would be surprised how much crap gets stuck in the fins around a CPU. That makes the CPU run hotter.

A clean PC runs a lot happier PC

 

[JosephH]

lol geoff I just keep a portable drive handy I plug it on and turn it on once in a while to backup then unplug etc so it dont have probs. I use a passport drive for daily weekly backups of files and when its full i put it on my portable drive

 

[Aussie048]

Well Joe

I think we have just about covered how to protect your computer.

One last thing is spam emails which can be dangerous to a system. A Spam blocker program is also a good idea.

No one should click on a spam email but just delete it. What does that email contain. Maybe to a web page that is going to destroy your system.

I have now created my original installation DVD's which I should have done 6 months ago.

I have:-

Backup of original configuration installation
Anti Virus software
Malware software
Spam Blocker email Software
Data Backup.

There is not much more I could do, If I have a hardware or software failure, I should be able to recover,

Cheers
Geoff

 

[JosephH]

yea after my system was wiped and I reinstalled everything I ran virus scan and malware bytes then I did a recover disk and a backup image of my system with all my software installed