Good morning -
A co-worker asked for help. When I got to his house, he was already in the process of compressing C:\ with the XP compression utility. I'm pretty sure I remember reading that this creates more problems than it's worth, and told him so, but of course it was too late to do anything about it. My concern deepened when XP stopped several times and said "Could not find attributes..." He had to tell it to ignore a bunch of files, then it would continue.
It finished and the monitor looked horrible. Got an error message saying ATI couldn't find files. I'm running W2K so not familiar w/ System Restore. We found a restore point from that morning and used it. The graphics recovered.
So, question #1: did using that restore point reverse the compression? I don't think it did.
I suggested we just un-compress C:\, but when we went back to the compress utility it said that it would take 6 days and several hours to reverse. Quickly backed out of that.
It's been a week now and he's found that Works isn't working either. I don't know how many other things are broke. He doesn't have the original XP CD, nor the Works CD. (The PC was bought from a former employer as-is). I don't know what we should do next. I'm looking into just re-installing XP and trying to find alternatives (such as OpenOffice) but maybe just reversing the stupid compression should be the first thing we try?
Any suggestions would be super. Thanks
A co-worker asked for help. When I got to his house, he was already in the process of compressing C:\ with the XP compression utility. I'm pretty sure I remember reading that this creates more problems than it's worth, and told him so, but of course it was too late to do anything about it. My concern deepened when XP stopped several times and said "Could not find attributes..." He had to tell it to ignore a bunch of files, then it would continue.
It finished and the monitor looked horrible. Got an error message saying ATI couldn't find files. I'm running W2K so not familiar w/ System Restore. We found a restore point from that morning and used it. The graphics recovered.
So, question #1: did using that restore point reverse the compression? I don't think it did.
I suggested we just un-compress C:\, but when we went back to the compress utility it said that it would take 6 days and several hours to reverse. Quickly backed out of that.
It's been a week now and he's found that Works isn't working either. I don't know how many other things are broke. He doesn't have the original XP CD, nor the Works CD. (The PC was bought from a former employer as-is). I don't know what we should do next. I'm looking into just re-installing XP and trying to find alternatives (such as OpenOffice) but maybe just reversing the stupid compression should be the first thing we try?
Any suggestions would be super. Thanks
