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To: H Peterson who wrote (4417)	7/13/1999 11:37:00 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (3) of 110631

Hi folks, I'm baaaaaaack! I was exiled for not keeping my SI subscription current. Now I'm in for life so I'll have to do something really bad to get exiled again (or die...). Anyway, it was really nice of some of you to miss me. Seems that folks are still getting their problems solved without me. Let's see, where's that monkey wrench... HP, Couple extra suggestions: Get someone to email you the files from the Win98 Startup Disk. It has the CD drivers which will eliminate the hassle of having to configure the win95 disk to enable your cd. I'll send them if you like. All you'll have to do is copy them to a floppy and then "sys" the disk from win95. When you go to your b-i-l's, bring the computer back with you. It'll take the pressure off and you'll be on-line while you're working on it. You might consider installing win98 rather than win95. One reason not to do this would be if the computer has an older (slower) processor. OTOH, for a couple hundred bucks (or less) you could add some memory and a faster processor. Stuff is real cheap now. Check PriceWatch for AMD chips that will fit on a socket 7 board (K6-2). You won't want to go over 64 MB of RAM though without getting a super 7 mobo. HDD's are cheap too. 8 GB for $125 or less. It's easy to add a HDD if you know how to format and install an OS. And finally, you might want to consider getting Drive Image from PowerQuest (or Ghost from Symantec -- I don't know how this compares in functionality). It's the best thing... w

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