Windows 7 Shortfalls

[pbolduc]

Hi Green_Eyed,

In reply to your post, Windows Defrag worked extremely well in Windows XP. Infact a third party defrag program wasn't needed it was just a little bit harder to schedule the defrag as it required a vbs script to call the defrag.exe to automate the process. Yes I was happy with the quality and speed of the XP Defrag. Far superior than any other Microsoft Defrag but I believe it was because Microsoft purchased the defrag utility from Diskeeper Corporation. Who the hell knows where they dug up this windows 7 defrag from?

About your second post regarding .NET Framework. Yes it's a terrible thing that they implemented this into XP. All it does is slow down Windows XP and create lots of problems when installing Windows Update on a fresh install. Of course once there are problems with .NET framework you have to un-install the most recent version all the way back to the oldest version of Microsoft .NET Framework. Followed by a re-install from the oldest versions to the newest in sequential order on a Windows XP PC.

Everyone knows it's a time sync. But at least Microsoft .NET Framework has an uninstall feature in the add/remove programs in Windows XP. Even though the uninstall rarely works properly the ability is still there.

Here is the tool I use for windows XP PC's that have a messed up .NET framework causing all sorts of problems. This tool will remove all version of .NET from the computer and clean up installations which fail to be removed properly so you can re-install them correcting any previous problems you have been experiencing.

However, this tool is not designed for Windows 7. The tool is called: cleanup_tool.exe and it can be found here for Windows XP only:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/arc...30/611355.aspx

Typically I run this tool after attemping to uninstall all versions of Microsoft .NET first through the add/remove programs in the XP Control Panel. Then I reboot and run this tool which cleans up all the crap that was missed during the MSI uninstall.

The domain is called windrivers which serves more than just WinDrivers. It is an entire community of support professionals who assist victims with common computer headaches. Which is why the forms are here and the topic in this form happens to be Windows 7 just incase you missed that. Therefore I'm still on topic Green Eyed.

I'm also still looking for a Windows 7 Microsoft .NET third party repair tool if anyone has found such a beast. I know Microsoft probably already has some sort of repair tool but getting a hold of their tools is next to impossible as they are intended for the internal Microsoft staff and not the general public.