Ghost upset PC !

[Guest RJK]

Stayed up most of the night, installing Aunties XP Home SP2 OEM PC, and all

went swimmingly.

....and I was impressed, particularly with hardware, in that after everything

I installed and changed and tweaked, and after every reboot - within two to

three seconds of XP Homes' classic theme blue screen "WELCOME" ....WALLOP !

....desktop and icons were there in a flash. After all this work I decided

to Norton Ghost 9 | full backup C:\ onto 2nd hd D:\ ...ready for when

Auntie gets her hands on it, (just kidding - she's very good on a PC).

 

Knowing that a PC is bever quite the same after Nortons' been in there - I

diligintly made a Restore Point and labelled it "Before installing Ghost"

, ...then installed Ghost | backed C:\ into a folder on d:\

.....uninstalled Ghost | and "Restored my PC to an earlier time" i.e. the

above mentioned Restore Point !! Ist boot after choosing a restore point

is a bit long-winded of course, but, the next reboot, and then after the 3rd

and fourth reboots, ... Did I get that lovely fast startup time back ?

Did the Desktop ever appear just two to three seconds after XP's "WELCOME"

screen, ever again ? ? ? ?

 

No, it f*****g well did not, ...we are now talking 40 seconds, and then a

blue rectangle appears for several seconds on the left side of the taskbar,

and then in a few seconds more the desktop icons appear, and then across the

next 20 seconds or so the system tray fills up with its' 9 icons !!

 

Any ideas and tips as to what Symantec Norton Ghost 9.0 did to this system,

that survived Ghost being uninstalled and system restored to above mentioned

restore point prior to installing it - would be gratefully received.

 

TIA

 

regards, Richard

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Ghost upset PC !

 

 

"RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> Stayed up most of the night, installing Aunties XP Home SP2 OEM PC, and

> all went swimmingly.

> ...and I was impressed, particularly with hardware, in that after

> everything I installed and changed and tweaked, and after every reboot -

> within two to three seconds of XP Homes' classic theme blue screen

> "WELCOME" ....WALLOP ! ...desktop and icons were there in a flash.

> After all this work I decided to Norton Ghost 9 | full backup C:\ onto 2nd

> hd D:\ ...ready for when Auntie gets her hands on it, (just kidding -

> she's very good on a PC).

>

> Knowing that a PC is bever quite the same after Nortons' been in there - I

> diligintly made a Restore Point and labelled it "Before installing Ghost"

> , ...then installed Ghost | backed C:\ into a folder on d:\

> ....uninstalled Ghost | and "Restored my PC to an earlier time" i.e. the

> above mentioned Restore Point !! Ist boot after choosing a restore

> point is a bit long-winded of course, but, the next reboot, and then after

> the 3rd and fourth reboots, ... Did I get that lovely fast startup time

> back ? Did the Desktop ever appear just two to three seconds after XP's

> "WELCOME" screen, ever again ? ? ? ?

>

> No, it f*****g well did not, ...we are now talking 40 seconds, and then a

> blue rectangle appears for several seconds on the left side of the

> taskbar, and then in a few seconds more the desktop icons appear, and then

> across the next 20 seconds or so the system tray fills up with its' 9

> icons !!

>

> Any ideas and tips as to what Symantec Norton Ghost 9.0 did to this

> system, that survived Ghost being uninstalled and system restored to above

> mentioned restore point prior to installing it - would be gratefully

> received.

>

> TIA

>

> regards, Richard

 

Since this appears to be mainly a Ghost rather than a Windows issue, the

Ghost FAQs or a Ghost newsgroup might point you in the right direction.

[Guest jd]

Re: Ghost upset PC !

 

Since you have a ghost copy, have you tried restoring from the ghost?

 

When I've used Ghost, I didn't need to install the software - I just booted it from a floppy. Maybe

you can boot it from a CD in the newer versions of Ghost.

 

 

"RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OppvDMlDJHA.2612@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

Stayed up most of the night, installing Aunties XP Home SP2 OEM PC, and all

went swimmingly.

....and I was impressed, particularly with hardware, in that after everything

I installed and changed and tweaked, and after every reboot - within two to

three seconds of XP Homes' classic theme blue screen "WELCOME" ....WALLOP !

....desktop and icons were there in a flash. After all this work I decided

to Norton Ghost 9 | full backup C:\ onto 2nd hd D:\ ...ready for when

Auntie gets her hands on it, (just kidding - she's very good on a PC).

 

Knowing that a PC is bever quite the same after Nortons' been in there - I

diligintly made a Restore Point and labelled it "Before installing Ghost"

, ...then installed Ghost | backed C:\ into a folder on d:\

.....uninstalled Ghost | and "Restored my PC to an earlier time" i.e. the

above mentioned Restore Point !! Ist boot after choosing a restore point

is a bit long-winded of course, but, the next reboot, and then after the 3rd

and fourth reboots, ... Did I get that lovely fast startup time back ?

Did the Desktop ever appear just two to three seconds after XP's "WELCOME"

screen, ever again ? ? ? ?

 

No, it f*****g well did not, ...we are now talking 40 seconds, and then a

blue rectangle appears for several seconds on the left side of the taskbar,

and then in a few seconds more the desktop icons appear, and then across the

next 20 seconds or so the system tray fills up with its' 9 icons !!

 

Any ideas and tips as to what Symantec Norton Ghost 9.0 did to this system,

that survived Ghost being uninstalled and system restored to above mentioned

restore point prior to installing it - would be gratefully received.

 

TIA

 

regards, Richard

[Guest RJK]

Re: Ghost upset PC !

 

uuuuh ? but, it made XP go slow, so now it's a Windows problem ! (just

kidding :-),

 

....it just occurred to me, I should have tried to try running the Norton

Cleanup utilities - though in theory they may have nothing to do but, you

never know, ...I've got a stash of them somewhere !

....and it crossed my mind that Ghost may not like it that, when I install

it, I immediately stop the Norton Ghost service running and set it to manual

| remove the reg. key that plants a Ghost icon in system tray, ...mmm maybe

reg. key scheduling - -can't remember now | and I delete the Liveupdate

directory.

e.g. on my own machine, if I want to Ghost a drive, I either start the

service myself, or start the program two times in a row to bring it to life.

 

regards, Richard

 

 

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message

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>

> "RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> news:OppvDMlDJHA.2612@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>> Stayed up most of the night, installing Aunties XP Home SP2 OEM PC, and

>> all went swimmingly.

>> ...and I was impressed, particularly with hardware, in that after

>> everything I installed and changed and tweaked, and after every reboot -

>> within two to three seconds of XP Homes' classic theme blue screen

>> "WELCOME" ....WALLOP ! ...desktop and icons were there in a flash. After

>> all this work I decided to Norton Ghost 9 | full backup C:\ onto 2nd hd

>> D:\ ...ready for when Auntie gets her hands on it, (just kidding - she's

>> very good on a PC).

>>

>> Knowing that a PC is bever quite the same after Nortons' been in there -

>> I diligintly made a Restore Point and labelled it "Before installing

>> Ghost"

>> , ...then installed Ghost | backed C:\ into a folder on d:\

>> ....uninstalled Ghost | and "Restored my PC to an earlier time" i.e. the

>> above mentioned Restore Point !! Ist boot after choosing a restore

>> point is a bit long-winded of course, but, the next reboot, and then

>> after the 3rd and fourth reboots, ... Did I get that lovely fast

>> startup time back ? Did the Desktop ever appear just two to three seconds

>> after XP's "WELCOME" screen, ever again ? ? ? ?

>>

>> No, it f*****g well did not, ...we are now talking 40 seconds, and then a

>> blue rectangle appears for several seconds on the left side of the

>> taskbar, and then in a few seconds more the desktop icons appear, and

>> then across the next 20 seconds or so the system tray fills up with its'

>> 9 icons !!

>>

>> Any ideas and tips as to what Symantec Norton Ghost 9.0 did to this

>> system, that survived Ghost being uninstalled and system restored to

>> above mentioned restore point prior to installing it - would be

>> gratefully received.

>>

>> TIA

>>

>> regards, Richard

>

> Since this appears to be mainly a Ghost rather than a Windows issue, the

> Ghost FAQs or a Ghost newsgroup might point you in the right direction.

>

[Guest RJK]

Re: Ghost upset PC !

 

Ahah ! ...that's maybe not such a bad idea, ...though I've done a fair bit

more to it since.

.....maybe too much to try it but, thanks that was a good one - i.e. addled

brain at this end didn't even think of that !

I shall bear it in mind :-)

 

regards, Richard

 

 

"jd" <www.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Since you have a ghost copy, have you tried restoring from the ghost?

>

> When I've used Ghost, I didn't need to install the software - I just

> booted it from a floppy. Maybe

> you can boot it from a CD in the newer versions of Ghost.

>

>

> "RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> news:OppvDMlDJHA.2612@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> Stayed up most of the night, installing Aunties XP Home SP2 OEM PC, and

> all

> went swimmingly.

> ...and I was impressed, particularly with hardware, in that after

> everything

> I installed and changed and tweaked, and after every reboot - within two

> to

> three seconds of XP Homes' classic theme blue screen "WELCOME" ....WALLOP

> !

> ...desktop and icons were there in a flash. After all this work I

> decided

> to Norton Ghost 9 | full backup C:\ onto 2nd hd D:\ ...ready for when

> Auntie gets her hands on it, (just kidding - she's very good on a PC).

>

> Knowing that a PC is bever quite the same after Nortons' been in there - I

> diligintly made a Restore Point and labelled it "Before installing Ghost"

> , ...then installed Ghost | backed C:\ into a folder on d:\

> ....uninstalled Ghost | and "Restored my PC to an earlier time" i.e. the

> above mentioned Restore Point !! Ist boot after choosing a restore

> point

> is a bit long-winded of course, but, the next reboot, and then after the

> 3rd

> and fourth reboots, ... Did I get that lovely fast startup time back ?

> Did the Desktop ever appear just two to three seconds after XP's "WELCOME"

> screen, ever again ? ? ? ?

>

> No, it f*****g well did not, ...we are now talking 40 seconds, and then a

> blue rectangle appears for several seconds on the left side of the

> taskbar,

> and then in a few seconds more the desktop icons appear, and then across

> the

> next 20 seconds or so the system tray fills up with its' 9 icons !!

>

> Any ideas and tips as to what Symantec Norton Ghost 9.0 did to this

> system,

> that survived Ghost being uninstalled and system restored to above

> mentioned

> restore point prior to installing it - would be gratefully received.

>

> TIA

>

> regards, Richard

>

>

>

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Ghost upset PC !

 

 

"RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:eoSQgqmDJHA.5316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> uuuuh ? but, it made XP go slow, so now it's a Windows problem ! (just

> kidding :-),

>

 

Last weekend I hitched a 2-ton trailer to my VW and it made it go really,

really slow. Must be something wrong with my VW engine . . . (just kidding)