Never (never never) ever trust Windows system messages...
Today we ran out of disk space on a server in the Test Lab. It's running Windows 2000 Server so I dutifully (as one does) went into Disk Cleanup and let it do it's thang. After pondering the universe for 30 minutes Windows reported a message along the lines of (paraphrasing as I forgot to write it down): "the following files have not been used recently and may safely be compacted or deleted".
Oh goody thinks me - Windows has for once done something helpful...
...then everything goes a bit Pete Tong. After allowing Windows to compact and delete the files that IT says are NO longer needed I get a System pop-up message from Windows File Protection:
"Files that are required for Windows to run properly have been replaced by unrecognized versions. To maintain system stability, Windows must restore the original versions of these files. Insert your Windows 2000 Server CD now."
This made me laugh, then cry, then laugh some more, and finally shrug with indifference - I guess I should have expected Windows to mess up like this.
Moral of the story (and one I should have learned already ;) - never ever trust anything that Windows tells you.
-C
Oh goody thinks me - Windows has for once done something helpful...
...then everything goes a bit Pete Tong. After allowing Windows to compact and delete the files that IT says are NO longer needed I get a System pop-up message from Windows File Protection:
"Files that are required for Windows to run properly have been replaced by unrecognized versions. To maintain system stability, Windows must restore the original versions of these files. Insert your Windows 2000 Server CD now."
This made me laugh, then cry, then laugh some more, and finally shrug with indifference - I guess I should have expected Windows to mess up like this.
Moral of the story (and one I should have learned already ;) - never ever trust anything that Windows tells you.
-C
