Dont ever try to upgrade an archaic old-arse P866 machine running your server directories to Win 2000 server. If you have to pay through your nose to outsource it...do it. Its 8:42 pm and I'm still here.
Step 1. Reformat a spare PC to WINNT, 2 hours
Step 2: move user database and pointers to that machine from old-arse machine. 2hours
Step 3: Buy more cigarettes. 15 mins
Step 4. Call for help
Step 5: Kick yourself for not remembering WINNT serial key: 10 mins...and so on and so fifth.
Step 1001: Go the f***K home. 20 mins
I've gotten a new meaning for NT...The list included: Nice Try, Neat Toy, Not Today, Nearly There, Next Time (maybe), Nothing but Trouble, and NoT and some others that I shouldn't type here cuz maybe my future children might read this. One has to keep up appearances.
Windows and lots of other applications leave detritus and junk all around the place as they butcher and fudge their way through installation and configuration. Certain components are ignored or overwritten according to invisible and unfathomable rules. Reinstalling and even uninstalling components rarely removes all related files. It is possible in many instances to reinstall components and still have them read flawed configuration files or registry entries.
But...alas, there is only one way to successfully resolve software problems. The hardest possible way. Usually you know this the second you realize you have a problem, but the denial stage is very tenacious. Hard-won experience is the only way to avoid countless hours of installing and re-installing when it comes to Windows NT. This is a true story. As Ralph Grabowski would say... "serves you right!"
For the ultimate time...I'm switching to Linux.
Step 1. Reformat a spare PC to WINNT, 2 hours
Step 2: move user database and pointers to that machine from old-arse machine. 2hours
Step 3: Buy more cigarettes. 15 mins
Step 4. Call for help
Step 5: Kick yourself for not remembering WINNT serial key: 10 mins...and so on and so fifth.
Step 1001: Go the f***K home. 20 mins
I've gotten a new meaning for NT...The list included: Nice Try, Neat Toy, Not Today, Nearly There, Next Time (maybe), Nothing but Trouble, and NoT and some others that I shouldn't type here cuz maybe my future children might read this. One has to keep up appearances.
Windows and lots of other applications leave detritus and junk all around the place as they butcher and fudge their way through installation and configuration. Certain components are ignored or overwritten according to invisible and unfathomable rules. Reinstalling and even uninstalling components rarely removes all related files. It is possible in many instances to reinstall components and still have them read flawed configuration files or registry entries.
But...alas, there is only one way to successfully resolve software problems. The hardest possible way. Usually you know this the second you realize you have a problem, but the denial stage is very tenacious. Hard-won experience is the only way to avoid countless hours of installing and re-installing when it comes to Windows NT. This is a true story. As Ralph Grabowski would say... "serves you right!"
For the ultimate time...I'm switching to Linux.
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