> Concerning those who want to use win9x for web browsing, since arachne > is java and javascript unfriendly and lots of websites are jave crazy:
> I read of one fellow who created a minimal win9x distribution, including > a browser and stores a clean copy on a spare small hard drive. He duplicates > this win9x distribution on an equally small partition of his main drive. > If believe, he boots to win from the spare drive. If anything goes wrong, > not just a virus that can infect his MBR, but any of that list of window > risky troubles -corruptions of the registry, etc. - he simply copies his > win installation from the partition to the spare drive, and, if needed, > reinstalls a new MBR. He claims this is MUCH faster than any win9x > reinstallation. And he is up again. I guess we all have our own ways of coping with windows. Mine is simmilar to the above: At any given time I have three bootable copies of W98 on my machine, spread over two different disks: one is for testing new software, the second is for tested and aproved software, and the third is a backup of the second. Naturaly, BG made it difficult to either backup or restore from/to a running copy of windows, but by having a third copy, I can always insure that a trouble free backup of can be made between the other two. Isn't that nice? It takes me three copies of windows to guarantee that one of them will remain uncorrupted ... plus CD backups, of course ... thank you Bill. Ray -- Arachne V1.66, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
