In your signature line... do you know the correct phrase of the
one born every minute? Do you know the rest of the phrase?
Gary Sielaff IS Manager
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT [Friday Humor???] Bought a copy of XP yester day
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> In that vein, I've considered documenting a procedure to guarantee safety
> from boot sector viruses on Win9x/ME, so long as no one then changes this
> configuration.
>
> Basically, it's a simple matter of:
> 1) Boot to a command prompt
> 2) run FDISK
> 3) delete the primary partition
> 4) exit FDISK
>
> Remarkably, one can then type Win to run Windows, and continue running,
with
> the confidence that one is now safe from boot sector viruses. Well, one
can
> keep running, until the next reboot. Unfortunately, conscience will not
> allow me to do something, even in jest, which has the potential to be
taken
> seriously by someone, to their own detriment. Equally unfortunate is that
> conscience does little for the temptation to do so.
>
> Greg Stigers
> http://www.cgiusa.com
> there's one born every minute - [log in to unmask]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Wuerth [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 11:59 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OT [Friday Humor???] Bought a copy of XP yester day
>
>
> See??? Truth to M$'s claims that XP will not crash as much!
>
> "If it the software don't load, you can't crash the XP code!"
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: KENT WALLACE [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 11:01 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] OT Bought a copy of XP yesterday
>
>
> I bought the upgrade from WIN98.
>
> First I took a winNT PC and loaded win98 on it.
>
> XP told me it found the box had once had NT on the PC and would not load.
> In addition it reported my HP printer, NIC card and several other software
> products would not work with XP. Same problem I had with WIN2000, no
> drivers.
>
> It did not load and therefore did not crash. I guess I need to reformat
the
> disc drive.
>
> Sorry for the waste of bandwidth.
>
> Kent Wallace
> Boise, ID
>
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