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To: Rambi who wrote (26495)	4/2/2002 4:50:28 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110618

Rambi I am hoping it will just get better miraculously Sometimes a reboot does exactly that! Let us know where you run into problems trying to fix it yourself and we'll be glad to walk you through step by step. tc :-)

To: Rambi who wrote (26495)	4/6/2002 11:54:22 AM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110618

computers, grrrrrrr! first and foremost I am technically brain dead, so understand I barely know what I'm doing even when being told I did all the steps suggested by CL thread somehow it lost or corrupted a file and I couldn't even reboot so I called Microsoft support [$35.00 till your problem is solved - very cheap in the world of support] they had me re-install Windows 98 and IE [4 hours with them on the phone] - ran into wrinkles and they helped me through it - but then I could not get online, so MSFT support let me go and had me call my cable company to come out and 'fix' the problem they did get me up and running [one day wait and 3 hours time], but then IE wasn't working right so I again called MSFT support, gave them my case number, got a new tech guy who said the earlier MSFT support man had me re-install IE over the existing IE - wrong way to do it - sooooo - he had me re-install Windows 98, again, and this time we eliminated the old IE and re-installed a brand new IE, version 5 is the only one available when you do it that way [took 3.5 hours] naturally, my cable [I use road runner] wouldn't work, so out the cable guys came again [another day, another 3 hours] bottom line? I am up and running, yes, but with lots of glitches - such as my trading room doesn't work like it did before, I have to refresh every time I press 'enter' or the latest line I wrote will continually re-enter itself and I still can't download a damn thing from the net - same goofy little blank page with a little box containing a circle, triangle and a square and NO download sigh..... now, the new plan [god help me] I have been given a promotional copy of Windows XP Professional and I have asked about it from every source I can, all with varying answers from love to hate to it will use your RAM better to no existing known programs use RAM to capacity some swear by Windows 2000 others XP, others NT - most don't have XP Professional so I haven't heard much on it - grrrrrrr - I have no clue, but I do have this shiny new XP Professional CD sitting there staring at me, whispering, I am bug free problem is, I have heard the new family of Windows operating systems aren't always compatible with programs you already have on the old Win98 system so......I would like to have XP Pro installed and keep Win 98 and am told it can be done - by partitioning my drive - and then maybe one by one, seeing if a program can be moved over to XP and works [also there is supposed a program you can DOWNLOAD to check for compatibility, grrrrr] BBY, where I bought my Micron, tells me they can do all the installation, partitioning, ect I am leaving for Florida Thursday and will probably drop the Micron off at Best Buy and let them have at it on a feminist note, I am grateful mother nature gave me a thick head of hair, for at the rate I have pulled it out over all this, I still have some left