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To: Benny Baga who wrote (678)	12/14/1998 7:32:00 PM
From: TLindt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20297

Well this is an example of how...pissed off a guy can get at MicroSoft. I just recently got the parts to Build an AMD K6-2 3D 350MHZ Box. So I did Brain Surgery on my almost new AMD 233 MMX, removed all the portable hardware, and put it in the new 350 Box. That went fine, absolutely...as I moved up a couple generations of Motherboard with a faster BUS & AGP. Then I took the Kids P5100, gutted all the portable harware and moved it into my old AMD 233 MMX enabled box with an AGP. Windows could not understand the move...so I formated and reinstalled everything...OK Fine. Then...I get from my ISP...a need for Speed Internet Explorer 4.01 something. I put it on my 350 Box, no problemo....then the Kids. A-OK-Dokie. Until they go to play their favorite game, Big Game Hunter II...gets wave sound, except for when you talk to the guides to find out what is going on. So I screw...with this this setting in Media Player 6 & the Active Movie Player which has taken control of these wave files vs direct control from the Sound Blaster 16 card in their computer(software control vs hardware)......off and on I go.....I tried unstalling it, I formated it a couple times...and rebuilt it....layer by layer, day after day. Something a little different....Come to the conclusion it was that 4.01 Internet Explorer from my ISP which installed the this extra batch of garbage and restrictions within the kids system, so I went to MicroSofts Download site and down loaded all the latest drivers, patches for every piece of harware in each system. Still nadda.... So I tried to edit, diagnose and remove IE 4.01, using Norton. No way. What finally worked was to FDISK the kids computer, format it and re-install the operating system...and then put a year old version of Internet Explorer which came with my Quicken last year 3.02. That made it work. Moral...I spent about $3000 of my time on a $19.99 dollar program...Why? My 7 year old Son bought it with his own money....otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. But it took me hours of time to track down this glitch, I didn't even bother with customer support, even though the game manufacture did have a direct x6 fix at their web site...tried that too...and it didn't work...I tried that at least 4 to 8 different ways in various combinations. That's how I've always learned, to do it...and I come to this conclusion. Windows is un stable. And I'm not an expert, this is just an observation if you will from a guy...who is a shade tree mechanic on this stuff. I've run Novell servers since the late 80's and have yet to experience a Novell failure in 10 years, if every there was a problem...it was never with Novell...generation after generation. In fact I don't even know Novell...just put it on and it works...never have to screw with it, so I don't know much about it, as I have never had to learn it. Every Problem I've ever had to run down was to do with Windows OS, Dos was great... You couldn't give me an NT Server. I figure it this way...one computer could go down on an OS software glitch, we'd survive...but if the Network went down we are out of Business. I don't know anything at all about NT, but I'm glad they are building their system on it. I just envision them sending a billion billings...then the customer history gets scrambled and sent across the nation to the wrong parties...and payments posted by the wrong customer, to the wrong biller, by the wrong bank. Go For It. Maybe in 30 Years! Kinda like what happened on FreeRealTime a month or so back...wonder what kinda server they had? But I could see everybody elses portfolios and stock lists, but my own.