Anyone done a system restore...?
Sunday, 6 May 2018 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
byslantedlightI have a post half-written that is not this post, but it occurs to me that this might be a good place to ask something, before my world implodes just a little bit further.
So - there were a shedload of Windows updates on Friday and Saturday, and suddenly I don't have any wireless connectivity on my laptop. This is a bit of a disaster, cos it means it won't talk to my printer for printing (although I think I do have my cable with me here) or talk to my phone for Dropbox/camera transfers (although again I could stop Dropbox and work out the cable, I suspect), but most importantly I can't work anywhere but at home where I have an ethernet cable connection available. Which is a the real disaster, because I'll need to use it for various exam meetings which all kick off next weekend...
I tried reinstalling various drivers from the Vaio website, but no luck. It occurs to me this morning that I could do a system restore - but when I scanned the possibly affected programmes that might not restore, one of them was my MS Office (2010, not the online-based 365). Now this, having gone back to proofeading, I cannot live without - and not tomorrow, when I have proofreading deadlines. And I can't use Libre/Open Office for it, it just doesn't work consistently with the great variety of document/types I'm sent.
I checked online, and MS assured someone that reinstalling Office won't use up another registration key, which is fine - but of course my Office box with the key is somewhere in my storage. It might be easy to find, but it might not...
Before I start all this - has anyone ever done a system restore? Did it wipe out any of your programmes/MS Office if you had it/anything else? It's not supposed to affect documents and files and photos and so on, but it'd be a bugger if my mouse stopped working (especially since I've disabled the trackpad!), or my keyboard or anything else basic... but also good to know that MS Office won't necessarily be wiped out!
Any experience/advice/wisdom would be gratefully received!
So - there were a shedload of Windows updates on Friday and Saturday, and suddenly I don't have any wireless connectivity on my laptop. This is a bit of a disaster, cos it means it won't talk to my printer for printing (although I think I do have my cable with me here) or talk to my phone for Dropbox/camera transfers (although again I could stop Dropbox and work out the cable, I suspect), but most importantly I can't work anywhere but at home where I have an ethernet cable connection available. Which is a the real disaster, because I'll need to use it for various exam meetings which all kick off next weekend...
I tried reinstalling various drivers from the Vaio website, but no luck. It occurs to me this morning that I could do a system restore - but when I scanned the possibly affected programmes that might not restore, one of them was my MS Office (2010, not the online-based 365). Now this, having gone back to proofeading, I cannot live without - and not tomorrow, when I have proofreading deadlines. And I can't use Libre/Open Office for it, it just doesn't work consistently with the great variety of document/types I'm sent.
I checked online, and MS assured someone that reinstalling Office won't use up another registration key, which is fine - but of course my Office box with the key is somewhere in my storage. It might be easy to find, but it might not...
Before I start all this - has anyone ever done a system restore? Did it wipe out any of your programmes/MS Office if you had it/anything else? It's not supposed to affect documents and files and photos and so on, but it'd be a bugger if my mouse stopped working (especially since I've disabled the trackpad!), or my keyboard or anything else basic... but also good to know that MS Office won't necessarily be wiped out!
Any experience/advice/wisdom would be gratefully received!
