Giving Thanks for System Restore & cursing ......

[navychop]

Setting up new workstation. Added to domain. Loaded Corporate Trend Micro. Loaded accounting program. All is well with the world.

Well, let's see here- let's add the basic version of a not to be named spyware detection program. Big mistake. As a "free gift" it downloaded and installed an anti-virus program without telling me until after it was all over. Two incompatible AV programs brought the system to a halt. I couldn't even get the PC to run long enough to uninstall this stuff, either thru their own uninstall or remove programs. Wasted a couple hours trying, letting it grind away while I was doing other things.

Then I came halfway to my senses and I booted in SAFE mode and removed part of the offending programs. THEN, brain cells kicked into gear and somewhat sheepishly I did a system restore. Reinstalled the accounting system and all is right with the world.

Don't have to do that often, but I sure should have remembered it first.

 

[Neutron]

I hear ya! The company I worked at before the one I'm at now I was partially responsible for getting a corporate Windows 7 image set up, which we did successfully.

Where I'm working at now I wish we had that, and I brought it up to my boss but he said that since we are still being acquired and haven't fully integrated, our parent company would be getting a corporate image going. Right now we just use what comes on the factory image from Lenovo. All of the bloatware sucks!

 

[navychop]

Oh yes, the fun removing all the "free" games and other nonsense. And McAfee fights back in removal. That damned Bing Bar .............

Sigh. Deep breath. Move along.

 

[Neutron]

Our Lenovos from the factory come with the Bing Bar, Norton 360, Office 2010 icon to purchase Office 2010, and the most annoying of all is the Lenovo Toolbox!

When I create an image I install the base OS, Office, and any other programs that don't depend on the Machine SID. Antivirus I have to install afterwards as if it's a managed AV like Symantec or Sophos it requires unique Machine SIDs.

The images I have created are hardware agnostic as I inject the drivers for every model we have during the image creation process.

 

[vodad]

I just got a new dell computer, took it out of the box, hooked it to the domain, took about 2 minutes. started to install office 2010. power goes out.

Lets just say office did not like the partial install, and it took me two days to get the machine to let me get it installed, after wiping everything and starting from scratch.

I guess the good thing in all this was, all the bloatware was gone from the machine.

 

[yourbeliefs]

System Restore is great. I remember my dad was browsing on some websites he shouldn't have (read porn) and got infected with a malware antivirus (it disables all your stuff and makes it near impossible to remove and demands you buy it's POS fake antivirus.) I couldn't get it disabled but luckily a restore point had been made recently and I told it to jump back and then all was right with the world. I also gave him a nice smack across the head (the one above his neck.)