This comment made me laugth

[The PIT]

Mark B. has a hot one for ya. Yea, I know "you'll never need it" but just when you think you don't, trust me, you will.

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It's great when it works but quite a lot of times it doesn't.

[SteveC]

Re: This comment made me laugth

Originally posted by The PIT
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It's great when it works but quite a lot of times it doesn't.

Change that to 'it rarely works - it just makes inexperienced server admins feel safer'.

[The PIT]

Well I was going to say rarely but then I'd get a volley of friendly abuse from people who managed to get it done.

[rugger]

Hey,

It's never worked for me,

so preach on

[The PIT]

Has it ever worked for anyone ???

[SteveC]

Once for me, back in NT4 pre-SP3 days. Tried it about 30 times since - Not even slightly useful.

[Sasq]

I think it falls into the more damaging area - I have had success with selecting intall, then when it finds the existing install and it asks if I would like to repair that installation I choose yes.
Sadly it means your re-installing the SP's tho

[The PIT]

This probably because it's not a system file thats screwed up but a file installed by a program that gets loaded via the registry during startup. Last know config has saved the screwed up install so your stuffed.