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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (10976)	9/24/1998 3:19:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Dan - on the PnP - it is shaky. There are some quirks in PnP and from what I've seen it usually gets wrapped around the axle when the install process encounters device conflicts, and the deinstall isn't able to complete the removal because there was no trace file created that gives it a path to go through to finish the removal of the junk. You end up with a registry that just grows forever. Network Associates and Symantec have some pretty good tools that can go in and really uninstall things, and make those pesky (dangerous) modifications to the registry for you. (Symantec just pulled one of their's off the market due to a legal ruling - NETA bought Cybermedia and a judge ruled in favor of Cybermedia's filing to halt the continuing sale of the Symantec product! - More legal fun, eh?) Anyway, if you don't have one, take a look at www.nai.com. They've bundled the Cybermedia stuff into a suite of products, and retailers should have the new packages soon (a lot of what may be on the shelves is still the old stocks of Nuts & Bolts, etc.). Not sure if that helps, but I wouldn't run a PC without it anymore. BTW - have you had the same kind of problem with W98? I haven't taken the plunge yet. Mr. K.