"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:23:36 -0600, "John Stricker"
wrote:

Or, perhaps you should just learn how to use it.. 7 machines here
running
everything from 98SE, ME, XP home, XP Pro. Almost never have a
problem.
Then again, I don't intentionally try to do things to create
myself
problems.

First, I am not a booster of MS and I don't even like them and
their
ethics, but:


It was the rise in the use of sound cards that gave me a lot of work
re-installing windows, some of the cards would blow resulting in
corrupting the HDD. This was great from my point of view as there was
no data to recover onto floppies or my much used ZIP drive, so it
only required a new card and a clean install; we blamed the client
over his lost data, we did train them in backing up everything.

For some years, CD drives gone bad cause the system to grind to a
halt, thankfully that's not too common now.

My pet hates are, anything a client may use to install any new
applications, games or updated printer drivers etc, floppy drives,
zip drives, cd rom drives and the worst of all that annoying modem
thingy. Provided none of these attachements are on your clients
computer then they cannot do too much damage to their own system
other than formatting the hard drive.

I only have 4 here on a P to P network that run 24 X 7 with the
CPUs
staying at nearly 100% utilization.

I have 7 machines, 4 are working. one is in the lounge with it's own
printer, setup for the wife to use. Three are in my 'office', why so
many for my own use, that's because I split up functions between the
three machines. 1 is used for most of my work, printing, internet, 2
is used for testing all those annoying broken printers people keep
sending me for repair, running my scanner and burning CD's etc, 3 is
em, now just why do I have a third machine connected to my network,
can't think of any good reason, Oh yeh, because it's there.

My wife's system stayed on 98 and then 98 SE for a longggg time
before
going to XP Pro. She wouldn't let me change it as it always worked
and
she kept hearing horror stories about other people's crashing.

My wife did try to use a computer, however, she is still worried
about all the harm you can do to a computer by doing something wrong;
we all know that, well really, what harm can you do to a computer
just writing a letter.

Like you John, I had no problems with ME.


me is a desease that Microsoft created for the PC just to prove they
could do it too.

The only problems I've had have been related to line noise,
application conflicts such as Roxio and Nero being unwilling to run
on
the same machine and those of my own making.


Anything a client can update themselves is the worst application, had
a job on a machine that the client tried to update to IE-6 from ver
5.5 and screwed it up.


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Cheers,
Jonathan Lowe.
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