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To: Alex Molnar who wrote (39467)	2/15/2004 6:22:03 PM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

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 n

To: Alex Molnar who wrote (39467)	2/16/2004 10:00:47 PM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110652

Alex, A person that just switched from Windows 3.1 into a used pc with Windows 98 is having a hard time adjusting to the different look to do the same functionality. - The pc has only one harddrive C: and I'am trying to figure out a way to either have Win98 or Win3.1 run on C: without me having to dump onto Omega 100 Zips and break up the huge 2Gs C: (80% unused) into two bootable logical hard drives. - While the DOS system under Win98 and Win3.1 are of the same type, WIN.EXE from a loaded Win3.1 directory does not recognize the DOS on a Win98 loaded harddrive. - I can see that the DOS on Win98 is gutted down into a COMMAND.COM in the root, and has no C:\DOS. - At this point on the Win98 C: I have loaded from the Win3.1 C:\WIN31 C:\DOS and I'am gonna try the following after I make a bootable floppy. - Load the COMMAND.COM from theWin3.1 pc into a directory on the Win98 C: and make two version of CONFIG.SYS where the one that runs the pc as now in the root will do the bringing up Win98, and the other version to execute the COMMAND.COM from the Win3.1 pc that puts you into DOS after the AUTOEXEC.BAT finishes unless you add the extra command line to start a Windows 3.1 which I would like C:\WIN31\WIN.EXE - Dangerous I know, and just so I have a bootable floppy and the file system does not get corrupted, then I think this may work. - Any comments will be greatly welcomed. I'll not do this until I search Google for any hits on others doing something like this. thanks Doug