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[mgibbs]

Matt: 30 years in I.T. We'll just have to disagree about whether a "shortcut" is necessarily a bad thing. In most installations I think its a valid approach. For life critical systems I'd not use Windows anyway

Fidget: Forums are all about discussion which inevitably leads to differing opinions. It'd be boring if everyone agreed all the time

Mark

[Matt Quinn]

:rolleyes::biggrin:

Not really arguing as far as I'm concerned... :biggrin: My view is simply that it needs to be remembered we're dealing with the means by which people earn their living here - not living room toys or units that can be swapped out in a corporate environment.

- Yes simply uninstalling and re-installing drivers in order can often help; I take it the lazer went in first? There are also often odd settings you can 'tweak' and a few other shortcuts that might have been worth trying.

But there is an old saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

I'm not sitting in front of the machine, I don't reallly know how much you know or what support you have to hand. - If I was to advise you to try something that might throw up other odd effects I risk causing you to waste more valuable time and stock. And possibly make your problems worse in that respect. I'd also risk causing you to put other fauts on the system that might be harder to track down.

With no disrespect intended I've no way of knowing if you have the knowledge to work through some of the more complex solutions. As don't have the machine in front of me I don't know its history it could have taken days for questions and answers to shuttle back-and-forth via a forum...

And there's the added complication that with the machine in front of me I may spot something critical that I wouldn't necessarily be prompted to ask about via the forum. - Without it I possibly wouldn't think to ask and you wouldn't know to tell me!

This is a machine used for work and not some silly toy for playing daft games on. As this is (or was) affecting your business,costing you money and taking the food off your table that's not a direction I'm happy to see someone steered.

As you had yourself suggested doing a reformat/reinstall - and that remains the most sure way of getting an almost guaranteed result... :rolleyes:

Anyway - glad it's worked out and the presses are rolling again.

[Matt Quinn]

For life critical systems I'd not use Windows anyway

Ideally I'd not use windows period :biggrin: Oh how I wish someone could break the IP stranglehold and produce something that ran the windows programs we need efficiently!

Not really saying a short cut is a bad thing - Just inappropriate sometimes. 'Life Critical' is a relative term

[Fidget242]

I'm not sure which printer he installed first, I just let him get on with it. If I have problems I generally go to a forum first, then if unsuccessful I'll quiz the brother-in-law - usually he's too busy to help but will try his best to guide me over the phone, but the odd time he can spare a sunday and he comes and works his magic for me

The rare occasions forums dont work and he isn't available I get a local IT tech from a shop in town to call out, he can sometimes be expensive but as you've both already said better to get the problems fixed than be stuck with no income!

Don't get me wrong I wasn't saying neither of your suggestions were helpful as they really were, and if I couldnt get hold of him I would have tried them without a doubt. I understand your points but I wasn't accusing anybody of giving me wrong information. I am grateful for all your help

[Matt Quinn]

I understand your points but I wasn't accusing anybody of giving me wrong information. I am grateful for all your help

No no of course not... I'm sure no-one imagines that to be the case.

Forums, and online communication generally , rob us of many of the visual cues we normally depend on... If this exchange had taken in a pub it would plainly have been two blokes bantering... Nothing to get upset about or troubled by; thorough debate is empassioned debate...

Main thing is everything's working now and you can get on with the vital business of putting tonight's dinner on the table.