Windows XP Book Disk? Bah. Dualing Network? No way.
Windows XP is quickly disappointing me. I've traded features for stability.
#1 - Windows ME allowed me to plug in my webcam, and through explorer snap picture. Pretty fun. No dice with Windows XP. Just a big fat picture of what my webcam was looking at.
#2. fDisk.exe...that's kinda dangerous, we better not ship it... SYS.exe?? O no, that just might be OS compatible, UNLIKE the "Create an MS-DOS Bootable Disk" the formatter allows me to create. (Yet this silly thing ships with Command.com and CMD.com..both different, and this is clean install.)
#3. Recovery Disk (that's gotta have fdisk..) ...that's NOT EVEN IN THE FRIGGEN CONTROL PANEL!! The Windows help is no help. Online sources say there's a way to create a password recovery disk. (That option isn't even displayed when you don't have passwords. Good thinkin'. I expect it had nothing to offer either.)
#4. (This is the dual network crap) So, off to see if the bootdisk.com have these files. Ahh, 3/4 of the way to downloading, I notice a dial-up connection dialog offering to dial. No bother, I see that the downloads are coming, in/total is rising, I'll just X that window back to where it came from. *BRING!* "File bootme.exe is unable to download as the network connection has suddenly closed" WHA?T?!@ Grrr...Grumpy User whistle's whistle's for his horse and takes it to the blogosphere.
This post wouldn't even POST until I opened another window and was prompted to Connect.
Maybe I'm just grumpy because neither http://pycs.net/sqr NOR http://sqr.pycs.net is the #1 google hit for Dean Goodmanson.
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