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Subject: Re: Is Windows 2000 Professional a good choice for Computer-Chess? (OT)

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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