Never fiddle with installed programs.

[Lorem-Ipsum]

As I like to keep my system stable when I heard about a fix for a firefox bug I jumped on it, sadly without reading the instructions. It wanted me uninstall firefox then install it manually then link the install up with installed plugins and install a patch.

I simply installed one version on top of the other. It left me with a huge mess of unusable ****.

4 hours later of tedious work fixing plug ins one by one, finding out java was suddenly missing, fixing that, fixing flash (harder than it sounds when your install is ******.)

Anyway all fixed now and I have learned my lesson. Always read the instructions and don't fiddle with software. It should be at least a week before I forget and do somthing just as stupid again. lol

[Ammok]

Your just proving your a real man.

1. Open box
2. Chuck away anything made of paper
3. Assembly using only one hammer, screwdriver and blutac
4. After five hours, switch on pc to download instructions you just lit the bbq with half an hour ago
5. Proudly state "of course", waving copy of said instructions, when the missus asks if you have read them.(hoping she won't notice the wet ink)

Result, you are a real man!! Only wimpos read instructions (or women). :)

[Mr. Lime]

Your just proving your a real man.

1. Open box
2. Chuck away anything made of paper
3. Assembly using only one hammer, screwdriver and blutac
4. After five hours, switch on pc to download instructions you just lit the bbq with half an hour ago
5. Proudly state "of course", waving copy of said instructions, when the missus asks if you have read them.(hoping she won't notice the wet ink)

Result, you are a real man!! Only wimpos read instructions (or women). :)

Or people who dont want to have to call someone out and shell out £200 to fix what they broke?

[Lorem-Ipsum]

Or people who dont want to have to call someone out and shell out £200 to fix what they broke?

lol. You mean what a 'real' man would fix with a hammer??

[Mr. Lime]

lol. You mean what a 'real' man would fix with a hammer??

Even if the "fixing it with a hammer" is what broke it in a first place? :)

[Lorem-Ipsum]

Even if the "fixing it with a hammer" is what broke it in a first place? :)

Of course. Every real man knows everything can be fixed with a hammer and brute force!!!

[sniperdude]

As I like to keep my system stable when I heard about a fix for a firefox bug I jumped on it, sadly without reading the instructions. It wanted me uninstall firefox then install it manually then link the install up with installed plugins and install a patch.

I simply installed one version on top of the other. It left me with a huge mess of unusable ****.

4 hours later of tedious work fixing plug ins one by one, finding out java was suddenly missing, fixing that, fixing flash (harder than it sounds when your install is ******.)

Anyway all fixed now and I have learned my lesson. Always read the instructions and don't fiddle with software. It should be at least a week before I forget and do somthing just as stupid again. lol



yup someone at firefox needs a good slap

installed minefield firefox beta ( someone posted it here) when i removed i and went into proper firefox all my bookmarks and saved passwords were all gone

no profiles remainig so all was lost

tried system restore (i should know better) and almost had to format and reinstall
due to that messing everything up LOL

managed to sort it out without reinstalling win7 but still lost mypasswords and book marks

[Lorem-Ipsum]

yup someone at firefox needs a good slap

installed minefield firefox beta ( someone posted it here) when i removed i and went into proper firefox all my bookmarks and saved passwords were all gone

no profiles remainig so all was lost

tried system restore (i should know better) and almost had to format and reinstall
due to that messing everything up LOL

managed to sort it out without reinstalling win7 but still lost mypasswords and book marks

ouch. I use linux on everything and have a script to back up all my preferences from time to time. It must be even harder to fix in windows.

[waba]

urg i alays do this and mess up. not because i think i know howw everything works, but i always thought that installing an update just means you install it...without fiddlingh around with previous installations. sadly no. i have to start reading the instructions....

[Ammok]

lol, I always read em after to find out what to do with the extra bits.