Don't know about the Norton thing... I switched from Win 98 to NT4.0, and
haven't had the problem. It seemd as though Win98 wanted complete control
over the entire computer, whereas Windows NT, having been born a bit
earlier, and the product of a slghtly less greed-infested OS, did not quite
understand how to get that accomplished.
In all, I've felt safer with WinNT's lack of adventurist rants and tantrums;
and it's predisposition torward being a bit fussier 'bout the many
un-identified individuals to whom it simply hands my closely guarded
information is a minor plus as well.
Damn it! If only I could get everything at work converted to Linux, I
wouldn't have to worry about these things! :-)
--Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Not to be defending windows but it was most likly the way your
> anti-virus was configured that keep changing your boot record back to its
> orig. state.
>
> Bill just thinks he's all powerful. Norton knows He Is. (-:
>
> Charles
>
> > > I had a bizarre thought today. What would happen if Mickeysoft
> > > decided that a nice feature of their operating system would be to
> > > rewrite the boot record every time you booted Windows. This could be
> > > referred to as part of the "maintenance" cycle.
> >
> > In a few words: I thought they already did that! :-)
> >
> > I had a windows 98 installation that consistently re-wrote the
> > disk-signature of my dual boot system's 2nd hard drive, and kept
rendering
> > that damned drive's partitions hidden... so , I couldn't boot from it
> until
> > I went into partition magic, and made than active again!
> >
> > Need I say that I formatted the win98 partition very soon after that?
And,
> I
> > haven't touched Win98 since!
> >
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