On 15 Jul 2001, at 11:16, Joshua Bell wrote:
yay! pick apart the reasons time. Don't take it personally...it's just
that I spent a LOT of time getting my PC how I want it.
> The OS is humming along just fine, and it's nice to have NT under it.
I dual boot NT4 for when I need NT (3d modeling!), so that's kinda
moot for me...
> The login screen for the shared computer is nice - single click on an
No-one else uses my PC...
> comes to visit. The OS visuals are all updated and soothing without
> being a jarring departure from what came before.
I use an entirely different shell anyway...
> - Still no "I'd like to repartition my drives without losing the data"
> support in the OS, even after converting almost everything to NTFS.
> Bleah. Oh well, gotta keep Partition Magic in business. :) - I did an
Heh...yeah :) PMagic is a wonderful thing (especially when you
have 3 OS (98SE, NT4, LINUX) on your system)
> Basically, the desktop is
> empty except for the Recycle bin. Since I upgraded it kept all of my
> existing mess.
Ah yeh, that..I don't like the start menu, never have. My desktop is
littered with icons, folders and text files which I much prefer to
use...
>Some middle-aged games don't appear to be working: Duke Nukem
>3D, and Quake 1.0.
WinQuake? That IS what WinQuake is meant for after all :P (Been
running WinQuake under NT4 for ages..) And Duke is kinda old now.
Nothing more than you ex[ect from a NT kernal, really...it's why I still
FAR prefer 98SE for games...
Andy
Dawn Falcon
