On Mon Feb 03, 2003 at 08:44:59PM -0800, Jack Coates wrote: [...] > > My point is that Win 98 does this. Plainly, or fortuitously, it was an > > important > > requirement and goal of installer implementation. > > That may be the intention, but a reinstall of Windows over the same > partition has never actually solved a problem for me -- and let me tell > you, I've tried more than once :-)
Agreed. The only way to rescue Windows from itself, in my experience, is to make backups, format and reinstall on a clean partition. Installing Windows overtop of itself has always created more problems than what it "fixed". > Let's take a moment to re-evaluate the hardware decisions that we've all > made... Anyone using hardware-protected-memory big iron for a desktop or > laptop, raise your hand! Personally, I'm gonna trade in my Vaio for an > AS/400 (or whatever it's call this week) because it just raises eyebrows > when you roll that big black box into a meeting :-) Seriously, the old hehehe... no doubt! I think I need one of those as well.. just not sure how I'd fit it in the cat... =) -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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