Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 02:29:08 04/08/01
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On April 07, 2001 at 00:42:37, Paul wrote: >On April 06, 2001 at 22:11:55, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On April 06, 2001 at 19:13:37, Scott Gasch wrote: >> >>>As Benny says, you can't "boot into DOS" as easily as you can with win9x. Why >>>do you need to boot into a pathetic program loader that calls itself an >>>operating system and should have died 15 years ago anyway? >> >>Believe it or not, some of us like Dos (really), but I don't however have any >>respect for this Windows ME that's loaded on this computer. > >Well ... I'm using Win98 on both my computers, and that went pretty smooth >overal ... this week however disaster struck! Just by changing some network >settings in Control Panel, both computers didn't want to even boot normally >anymore ... so I'm back to Dos! Noooo ... just kidding! I somehow managed to get >one of them working again, but will have to reinstall windows completely on the >other one, and that's not pleasant with all these application settings stored in >that d@#$*&rned registry. I'm back to square one so to speak. go here and use Winrescue 98: http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/search.html it saved my life many X's, it saves ALL settings , files etc and restore flawlessly, it works! :.) > >>There's a lot to be said for multitasking, but this thing is like having a >>medicine ball for an operating system. But I can work around not being able to >>boot into dos through a boot manager (long as my floppy drive holds out), I'm >>more interested in moving away from ME which probably should have been labaled >>Windows POS, but I hear good things about 2000. > >Ahh ... you should wait for Whistler, seems to combine 2k & ME ... now if that's >a good thing? Also there seems to be some kind of forced registration in that >one, so that when you have to reinstall it, you also have to register again ... >and again ... :) > >Groetjes, >Paul
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