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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7393)	5/5/1999 6:22:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14778

>>how can I run the apps on scsita without an OS on scsita? Is this the option your refering to? If by scsita you mean a scsi hard drive, uh, why could you not run the aps there? I suspect a reason in your case; you installed them while running an OS located on scsita. If that guess is correct, the answer's simple. Reinstall them to the same location(s) on scsita while running the other os you'd like to run them from. The result of that will be that the registries in both OSs will reflect the install to the same location. IF these aps update the registry and/or ini files in the Windows directory, you're two os's will get out of synch. That's exactly why running the same app from multiple OSs makes a mad man under the bleachers with a sharp stick feel like your buddy by comparison. As Sean would put it (I know, I've heard him say it), no REAL os pulls this kind of crap on it's users. Only Windows. In truth, though, windows applications developers could avoid this if they took the trouble, it's all part of what professional software developers call the "selfish culture" of the windows environment and the apps that run there: Every one of them believe they own you and your machine, that it only exists so you can run THEIR ap, and anything they do to it is just ducky. Microsoft apps are among the most egregious offenders, but They Are Not Alone. I will spare you my personal catalog of prime miscreants, but I assure you it is long and contains many (most) industry software leaders. That's why swapping OSs back and forth becomes too painful to maintain. Spots