On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 03:40:40 UTC, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined:
> Graham wrote: > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > > > Anyone who uses both windoze and OS/2 ever find instructions for > > > installing a new build to W2K? I can't find any. > > > Uninstall the previous one, > > Once you've deleted the uninstall.log file among the rest of the bin > directory, that option vanishes. > > > then install the new one. Your individual > > settings should be preserved. Hacking things out instead of uninstalling > > them is one of the best ways of messing up Windoze in my experience, > > leading to all sorts of orphaned junk in the registry, files Windows' > > own directories which shouldn't be there etc.. In short, do it Bill's > > way, or no way! > > Which Bill's way? > > I downloaded not the exe, but the zip, which includes no such > instructions, nor any instructions at all. The whole MS approach is predicated on keeping the user out of the "works", so that the entire system (OS and applications) looks like a black box -- much like a toaster. This is what is so annoying to users of OS/2. MS doesn't want you to know where you are putting things, because that will cause you to try to manipulate them in your own way, thereby interfering with Bill's way. Don't bother to look for instructions, because there aren't any. What MS wants you to do is to keep your sticky fingers out of anything other than the desktop. Thus the advice of others here, that the ONLY recommended way to remove an application is to UNINSTALL it, else you will be, as you report yourself to be, UTC without a P. Wondering why they put in a command window at all? Think of it as something like the ashtrays that one finds in places where smoking is prohibited. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel Please replace "SPAM-FOILER" with "sgoodman". The Terrorist Credo: You can make friends by exploding bombs in public places, and the more people you kill, the better they will like you. 200 years of European fecklessness in the face of Arab terror: Tripoli Pirates (1814); OPEC Oil (1973); Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat (1990 et seq.) -- but actually financing it is a 21st-century European wrinkle.
