Kristyne McDaniel <> wrote: > Malcolm, > >> I do 95% of my work on laptops which have a 'built-in' UPS<g>. > > I've been doing a lot of my work on a laptop lately, too. I have a > newer machine and discovered that when I had a power outage and it > switched to battery it would disable my NIC and then refuse to > reconnect it when the power came back on. What a pain! > > Why on EARTH would Microsoft decide that was a good default setting > for a new laptop computer?
I have a laptop running XP and that doesn’t happen with me. I'll guess that it's the laptop and not the OS. YMMV Stephen Russell DBA / .Net Developer Memphis TN 38115 901.246-0159 "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. http://spaces.msn.com/members/srussell/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.14/547 - Release Date: 11/22/2006 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
