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replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/

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edited Mar 20, 2017 at 10:32

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Joel's recently blogged regarding wikifying question on several recurring topics where users keep asking new versions of the same problem.

Some of these are:

anti-virus software and cleaning them up,
solving boot problems, _{^{(<--- This has answers for BIOS phase and Windows. Anyone want to do linux and osx?)}}
freezing computers,
troubleshooting hardware,
benchmarking hardware,
backup software,
finding drivers,

Many topics would benefit from having a great up-to-date source of information, a Community Wiki Community Wiki. If a user tried most of those steps and still is having problems, then there might be something new going on.

This isn't a goal to create one "perfect" mega-answer, that we can use to close all the others as dupes, but rather to have a more general guide for users to follow and catch all the lowest hanging fruit.

The purpose of this question is:

to keep track of the progress,
to get suggestions for topics that could use such a question,
to manage some 'meta-ish' discussion, so we don't abuse the comments on the wiki questions,
requests from users for including certain information or sharing useful information to include

Joel's recently blogged regarding wikifying question on several recurring topics where users keep asking new versions of the same problem.

Some of these are:

anti-virus software and cleaning them up,
solving boot problems, _{^{(<--- This has answers for BIOS phase and Windows. Anyone want to do linux and osx?)}}
freezing computers,
troubleshooting hardware,
benchmarking hardware,
backup software,
finding drivers,

Many topics would benefit from having a great up-to-date source of information, a Community Wiki. If a user tried most of those steps and still is having problems, then there might be something new going on.

This isn't a goal to create one "perfect" mega-answer, that we can use to close all the others as dupes, but rather to have a more general guide for users to follow and catch all the lowest hanging fruit.

The purpose of this question is:

to keep track of the progress,
to get suggestions for topics that could use such a question,
to manage some 'meta-ish' discussion, so we don't abuse the comments on the wiki questions,
requests from users for including certain information or sharing useful information to include

Joel's recently blogged regarding wikifying question on several recurring topics where users keep asking new versions of the same problem.

Some of these are:

anti-virus software and cleaning them up,
solving boot problems, _{^{(<--- This has answers for BIOS phase and Windows. Anyone want to do linux and osx?)}}
freezing computers,
troubleshooting hardware,
benchmarking hardware,
backup software,
finding drivers,

Many topics would benefit from having a great up-to-date source of information, a Community Wiki. If a user tried most of those steps and still is having problems, then there might be something new going on.

This isn't a goal to create one "perfect" mega-answer, that we can use to close all the others as dupes, but rather to have a more general guide for users to follow and catch all the lowest hanging fruit.

The purpose of this question is:

to keep track of the progress,
to get suggestions for topics that could use such a question,
to manage some 'meta-ish' discussion, so we don't abuse the comments on the wiki questions,
requests from users for including certain information or sharing useful information to include

replaced http://superuser.com/ with https://superuser.com/

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edited Mar 20, 2017 at 10:18

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Joel's recently blogged regarding wikifying question on several recurring topics where users keep asking new versions of the same problem.

Some of these are:

anti-virus software and cleaning them up anti-virus software and cleaning them up,
solving boot problems solving boot problems, _{^{(<--- This has answers for BIOS phase and Windows. Anyone want to do linux and osx?)}}
freezing computers freezing computers,
troubleshooting hardware,
benchmarking hardware,
backup software,
finding drivers finding drivers,

Many topics would benefit from having a great up-to-date source of information, a Community Wiki. If a user tried most of those steps and still is having problems, then there might be something new going on.

This isn't a goal to create one "perfect" mega-answer, that we can use to close all the others as dupes, but rather to have a more general guide for users to follow and catch all the lowest hanging fruit.

The purpose of this question is:

to keep track of the progress,
to get suggestions for topics that could use such a question,
to manage some 'meta-ish' discussion, so we don't abuse the comments on the wiki questions,
requests from users for including certain information or sharing useful information to include

Joel's recently blogged regarding wikifying question on several recurring topics where users keep asking new versions of the same problem.

Some of these are:

anti-virus software and cleaning them up,
solving boot problems, _{^{(<--- This has answers for BIOS phase and Windows. Anyone want to do linux and osx?)}}
freezing computers,
troubleshooting hardware,
benchmarking hardware,
backup software,
finding drivers,

Many topics would benefit from having a great up-to-date source of information, a Community Wiki. If a user tried most of those steps and still is having problems, then there might be something new going on.

This isn't a goal to create one "perfect" mega-answer, that we can use to close all the others as dupes, but rather to have a more general guide for users to follow and catch all the lowest hanging fruit.

The purpose of this question is:

to keep track of the progress,
to get suggestions for topics that could use such a question,
to manage some 'meta-ish' discussion, so we don't abuse the comments on the wiki questions,
requests from users for including certain information or sharing useful information to include

Joel's recently blogged regarding wikifying question on several recurring topics where users keep asking new versions of the same problem.

Some of these are:

anti-virus software and cleaning them up,
solving boot problems, _{^{(<--- This has answers for BIOS phase and Windows. Anyone want to do linux and osx?)}}
freezing computers,
troubleshooting hardware,
benchmarking hardware,
backup software,
finding drivers,

Many topics would benefit from having a great up-to-date source of information, a Community Wiki. If a user tried most of those steps and still is having problems, then there might be something new going on.

This isn't a goal to create one "perfect" mega-answer, that we can use to close all the others as dupes, but rather to have a more general guide for users to follow and catch all the lowest hanging fruit.

The purpose of this question is:

to keep track of the progress,
to get suggestions for topics that could use such a question,
to manage some 'meta-ish' discussion, so we don't abuse the comments on the wiki questions,
requests from users for including certain information or sharing useful information to include

Fixup of bad MSO links to MSE links migration

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edited Apr 23, 2014 at 13:35

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Joel's recently blogged regardingJoel's recently blogged regarding wikifying question on several recurring topics where users keep asking new versions of the same problem.

Some of these are:

anti-virus software and cleaning them up,
solving boot problems, _{^{(<--- This has answers for BIOS phase and Windows. Anyone want to do linux and osx?)}}
freezing computers,
troubleshooting hardware,
benchmarking hardware,
backup software,
finding drivers,

Many topics would benefit from having a great up-to-date source of information, a Community Wiki. If a user tried most of those steps and still is having problems, then there might be something new going on.

This isn't a goal to create one "perfect""perfect" mega-answer, that we can use to close all the others as dupes, but rather to have a more general guide for users to follow and catch all the lowest hanging fruit.

The purpose of this question is:

to keep track of the progress,
to get suggestions for topics that could use such a question,
to manage some 'meta-ish' discussion, so we don't abuse the comments on the wiki questions,
requests from users for including certain information or sharing useful information to include

Joel's recently blogged regarding wikifying question on several recurring topics where users keep asking new versions of the same problem.

Some of these are:

anti-virus software and cleaning them up,
solving boot problems, _{^{(<--- This has answers for BIOS phase and Windows. Anyone want to do linux and osx?)}}
freezing computers,
troubleshooting hardware,
benchmarking hardware,
backup software,
finding drivers,

Many topics would benefit from having a great up-to-date source of information, a Community Wiki. If a user tried most of those steps and still is having problems, then there might be something new going on.

This isn't a goal to create one "perfect" mega-answer, that we can use to close all the others as dupes, but rather to have a more general guide for users to follow and catch all the lowest hanging fruit.

The purpose of this question is:

to keep track of the progress,
to get suggestions for topics that could use such a question,
to manage some 'meta-ish' discussion, so we don't abuse the comments on the wiki questions,
requests from users for including certain information or sharing useful information to include

Joel's recently blogged regarding wikifying question on several recurring topics where users keep asking new versions of the same problem.

Some of these are:

anti-virus software and cleaning them up,
solving boot problems, _{^{(<--- This has answers for BIOS phase and Windows. Anyone want to do linux and osx?)}}
freezing computers,
troubleshooting hardware,
benchmarking hardware,
backup software,
finding drivers,

Many topics would benefit from having a great up-to-date source of information, a Community Wiki. If a user tried most of those steps and still is having problems, then there might be something new going on.

This isn't a goal to create one "perfect" mega-answer, that we can use to close all the others as dupes, but rather to have a more general guide for users to follow and catch all the lowest hanging fruit.

The purpose of this question is:

to keep track of the progress,
to get suggestions for topics that could use such a question,
to manage some 'meta-ish' discussion, so we don't abuse the comments on the wiki questions,
requests from users for including certain information or sharing useful information to include

Migration of MSO links to MSE links

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edited Apr 23, 2014 at 9:11

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edited Jan 10, 2011 at 18:36

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Added link to my generic-answer finding drivers question

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edited Jan 10, 2011 at 17:11

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Post Made Community Wiki by Ivo FlipseMod

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edited Jan 10, 2011 at 5:31

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Added a link to an explanation about what a CW is, for users that haven't seen them before. From a TL;DR perspective most users would read the first reason "having a great up-to-date source of information", hence I gave "a more general guide" more attention. Reformatted purpose list...

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Inserting the "canonical" word there clashes with the alinea of Jeff Atwood's blog post: "... Help us build a great library of canonical answers. ... write a great, canonical answer, once and for all. ..."

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Adjusted link to point to the actual troubleshooting question and not the boot phase explanation. Small corrections...

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