Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

["Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

Well, to get KaZaA and other such garbage off of the computer, there is
a spyware/adware remover called Ad-aware (www.lavasoftusa.com) that is
quite good. Download it, install it, run it, uninstall it, crap will be
gone. If you're going to get a CD-R, you could also pick up a copy of
Symantec Ghost for not too much. That software will make an image of
whatever is loaded so you can reload it whenever you want, and the more
recent versions have a capability of writing an image directly to CD-R.
Not sure off the top of my head if it also works with parallel cable,
but that's worth looking into.

Good Luck!

- Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Childers.Paula AT epamail.epa.gov 
> [mailto:Childers.Paula AT epamail.epa.gov] 
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:26 PM
> To: InterNetWorkers
> Subject: [internetworkers] removing stuff / backups question
> 
> 
> 
> Hey gang;
> 
> I recently bought a "new-to-me" laptop computer with some 
> great software loaded on it I don't want to lose, but also 
> some stuff I want gone, like, right away 
> (*cough*KaZaA*cough*). I need some advice from those who 
> might have dealt with a similar situation as to how best to 
> handle this.
> 
> Background: It's running Windows 98, vendor-tweaked edition. 
> It's a Sony. It doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, just a floppy. 
> It does have a port replicator with parallel port, USB 
> connect, and some other stuff, too. It has a built-in modem.
> 
> I want to remove some software, but I don't want to wipe it, 
> and I'm a-feared of doing much tinkering without a backup. 
> Heck, without a CD-ROM drive, I couldn't reinstall if I 
> wanted to, even if I had all the disks, which I don't.  I 
> intend to buy a CDR for it ASAP, but in the 
> meantime........I'm wondering if any of you know of any 
> utilities to, say, make a compressed total backup of the 
> entire drive, that I could
> then use a parallel direct-cable-connect to transfer to my 
> home PC?   Do
> such things exist? Is this the best way, given the rest? What 
> other options do I have?
> 
> I feel like such a loser. I can make your UNIX-based 
> webserver sing (well, almost) but Windows PC's still make me 
> gabber nonsense. Such is life.
> 
> Paula the (semi-) lurker
> 
> 
> ---
> Come and play at the InterNetWorkers Web site!  
> http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> You are currently 
> subscribed to internetworkers as: geschwin AT email.unc.edu To 
> unsubscribe send a blank email to 
> $subst('Email.Unsub')
>