jerliz

So, are you saying you can not access your profile using your initial sign up name and password?

Did you sign up with a different name than your online user name--you need to use the sign up name--not the online user name....?

I found out years ago, that the best way to keep track of names, passwords and other various info, was to keep it all on Index Cards.
(Write it down!)

Also, never put spaces in your screen names and then you don't have to worry about did you or didn't you.

Then for non-sensitive sites, always use the same password, and make it a combination of both letters and numbers.

For sensitive sites, like your personal bank account, NEVER use the same password for more than one site. 
Again, write it down.  Don't trust your memory! 

Good Luck,
Shadow 

ATTENTION MODERATORS:
My password, username/id got so screwed up that I had to re-register under my full name and a different email address.    I was formerly registered as (display name) jerliz. NightOwl offered to go into your server and try and straighten it out. He asked me to send him a Personal Note if I wanted him to do so. However, I was totally locked out, I could not even reply to his last message. I tried for hours to get this straightened out ... to no avail. Re-registering was my only alternative. If anyone has additional suggestions i'm open for advice. Or if this is going to create any problems, please let me know. However, I am now     happy that I was finally able to get back in, even if I had to use my other email address.

Jerry

 Jerry

I saw you online using your old account--formerly *jerliz*--I had to change it to *jer of jerliz* in order for the forum software to allow me to reset your password and save it--it would not let the *display name* be the same as the *login name*.

You can go to the *User CP* (ControlPanel), and change your display name--doesn't have to be *jer of jerliz*, and you can change your password to whatever you wish.

 Jerry

I don't know exactly what happens when you use a thumb drive to boot to DOS and load Ghost 2003--does it create a virtual drive A: that it has booted from like the bootable optical disc does?

I do know that when you boot from a bootable optical disc with Ghost on it, and you reach the point where Ghost 2003 asks if you have the boot floppy in drive A: if you are making a bootable optical disc--you simply click *Yes*--and Ghost 2003 will read the files created and loaded into the *virtual boot drive A:* .

What happens if you do that from the booted thumb drive?

Jerry,
I'm glad to oblige.  It's good to see you back on-line again.

When I'm doing a clone, or a partition image to another drive, I can use any media I want to boot up with, including a Flash Drive, SD Flash memory card, CD, etc.

But, when I'm intending to make a bootable DVD, I always boot to Ghost 2003 with a floppy disk in A:.  That makes Ghost real happy and everything works as it was written.

On systems with NO floppy disk drive (internal) I've had real good luck using a USB Floppy Drive.  Both the BIOS, DOS and Ghost accept that as drive A:.
That's the only way I've been able to fool Ghost.

I've said it many times....."Ghost Knows".
So, even if your boot Flash Drive or boot CD can fool Dos into pasting an A: on the screen,,,,,Ghost knows by going right to the floppy port on the mobo and looking for the boot disk and if its not there.....
well you know the rest of the story.  It ain't purty!

I just did my first clean install of XP for the first time in several years.
(After I slipstreamed XP-Pro together with SP3.)

As soon as I got my ISP and email set up, I made my first Ghost Image to a DVD, booting from a floppy disk, and using HIGH compression.  Ghost reported that it would take two DVD's, but as always it scrunched it down to one.  GOD, I love that program!!!!

So Jer, how else can I be of assistance?



The Shadow  

Jerry,
It sounds like we're on parallel paths.
I too am running from my first clean install of XP in many years.  
So far I've only installed the bare minimum of software.
I ran the first few days with only my UPS monitor running in the background.....no AV or AS running.  
Then last night I finally installed AVG 8.0 PRO and saw absolutely NO difference in performance.  Of course my OS is tweaked and tuned with my standard package of tweaks, so it runs at optimum performance.  
That's about 100% better than XP right out of the box.

I found a long time back, that after I've tweaked my OS I can run five scanners at the same time and see no appreciable downgrade in performance.   People spend countless dollars to get more performance out of their PC's, when I do the same with just a few minutes at the keyboard.  It's pitiful.

Most of the info on how to do that is on my website, but since very few people believe that it will work, they won't even try it.

I went to a local computer tech's home recently and showed him how I tune up a PC and he was literally blown away by how much better his computer ran afterward.  Now he wants me to teach him how to tune up a computer....my way.

Back on topic, , ,
Since reformatting my C: drive and reinstalling XP/SP3, I've been making Ghost backups almost daily.
As I've said before, and will probably have to say a hundred times more, there is NO replacement for the System Restore feature.
It's so handy to just do a System Restore when something scrambles up your desktop, or some new program goes haywire on you.
When I first got XP, I reinstalled the OS at least six times to fix things before someone told me how to use System Restore.  
Since then I no longer have to reinstall the OS every time some little thing goes wrong.  I so seldom have to rely on a Ghost backup.

To push things to the max,,,,I run a script in my startup folder to Force a Restore Point on every system boot.
I may get half a dozen restore points in any one day, but hey.....that's OK, because when I need a restore point, I don't have to rely on one that's weeks old.

I really hate it, when I go on a service call knowing that all I'm going to have to do is reload a restore point and fix the problem,,,,then I get there and find out some dolt (idiot in training) turned the System Restore feature OFF.  
( urge to KILL )  
That can turn a five minute fix into hours of work.

So make darn'd sure that your System Restore feature is ON and working.  It should be making a new restore point every day, to be really effective.  
Now when I go on a service call on a PC that I've never worked on before, the first thing I do is make sure that System Restore is on and working.  If not, I turn it on and make an immediate restore point and then install my little script in the startup folder.

Restore points won't build up forever on your HD, like they did with Windows ME.  Windows XP only saves just so many restore points and then starts dropping the oldest one in the bit bucket.
If you have administrative rights, you can manually delete all the old restore points, except the current days, before you do a Ghost backup.  That will save you some space in your Ghost Image File.
You must also have Windows Explorer set to show you all files, even system and hidden.   With my FAT-32 file system, I can do that from my Ghost boot disk, with a little batch file, but on an NTFS system, you'll have to do it in windows, with Windows Explorer.

Dang!...Only two cups of coffee and I'm ranting again.

Happy Thanksgiving!
The Shadow