Alex ...
here is the clickstream, as you suggested, that I used to eliminate the initial 30 sec delay on boot
with Win2k open and running
Start
Settings
Control Panel
System
Advanced
Startup and Recovery
unchecked the menu item "display list of operating system for .... seconds"
ok
thanks for reminding me
as to your question
>>>>>having separate partitions instead of separate HD's for email wouldn't be sufficient? Do I miss something?
I'm paranoid
waaaaaaay back, when I first started posting on the CL thread, I was using a separate machine for email .. all my other boxes had NO email capability, so I basically had NO fear of infection from viruses.......
later, as I became more lackadasical (lazy) I did have one box that contained a bit of internet stuff along with email and I got hacked/virused/whatever ....
well ... down went the machine and damaged the HD
and
I lost that small bit
swore that I'd not get lazy again ...
so, for perhaps ten years now (other than that small journey into partitioned HD) I have been running separate boxes ...
if email can't get in, it can't infect
well, what precipitated this latest removable HD episode is two fold
one
my wife had several instances at her office that the entire school system was adversely affected by viruses
and
she has a bunch of stuff on her two machines downtown that were luckily NOT affected (due to her being out of town) when the rest of the school district suffered some problems
two
I've become a full time nanny for my newest granddaughter whilst her daddy finishes up his degree (he's taking 19hrs this semester) and her mom teaches school...
the baby was just toooooo precious for me to let her go to daycare, so, I was lucky enough that the kids allowed me to keep the baby .....
my boxes are all in my upstairs home office
and
my wife's machine is in her downstairs home office
so, as the baby is only five+ months old, and I keep and eye on her ALL day four days a week (even have a 900mz camera/monitor for when I'm out of the room ... <gggg>)
and
I wanted to occasionally get on line, yet not be all the way upstairs, I decided to rig up the downstairs box with removable HDs
so
in a longwinded manner ....
I don't feel that partitioned HDs provided enough protection
and
like I said
I'm paranoid ..... lol
thanks again for the tip
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