>>As the backup nt is a utilited OS web access might be considered essential. I don't see a word processor and spreadsheet as utility apps.
My feeling exactly. Backup requires essential tools to recover
data and recover primary. Web access is a heavy duty tool for
this. Notepad works for editing configuration files and comes
with the territory.
ZP has a back up environment in mind, it looks like. Sort
of a summer place, fitted out sparsely, maybe, but fitted out.
I have a place I don't wanna be unless I hafta in mind. More
like the tool shed way out back. It's all in your point of
view, I guess.
I can even argue against your favorite video driver, mouse
driver, sound driver. Among other things, if you change
your configuration, having these things will cause more
trouble than their absence in the long run. I'd maybe
make an exception for the video driver (he says, with
a flaming headache, having stared at VGA at 640x480 @ 60hz
all day long).
But you have to have your modem/nic/whatever configured
and your web connection parameters configured, AND your
bookmarks and all your site logons and passwords,
or you better have all this in a nice safe place where
it's available, and that's NOT in the dead OSs
registry unless you want to become an instant expert. |
