"Ryan Ferguson" wrote:
First, I have to comment and say that the Bendix King "Wingman" site
needs some serious help. (Anyone listening over there?) I've built
websites for a living in the past and this one exhibited just about
every user interface flaw known to man. It took me some time to
understand how and why I needed to create an account in order to
download products, then more time to actually find the correct product I
needed, and then it got a lot worse - trying to actually buy and
download subscription updates. That website is in BAD shape!

Yes, it exerts an extreme negative static pressure. My company is a customer
of Honeywell's Commercial Division, whose web site is just as bad. At a
customers' roundtable in Minneapolis last week we all bitched mightily about
it. The Honeywell guys acted surprised.

But I got to that point where I was downloading the product and
installing the GPS loader software. Then something bad happened -
somehow some .DLLs in my Windows 98 OS got mangled by the install.
(Somehow, I knew that would happen.) And of all things, it trashed my
email, which I use for both work and personal communication. The GPS
loader in conjunction with the data uplink cable successfully updated
the GPS, which is a GOOD thing, but now I want my computer back to its
original state. Has anyone else gone through this? Is it just me? Why
the heck is my computer all screwed up just from installing the Bendix
King GPS Loader?

I can't explain that, Ryan. I've installed and run it on two different
laptops with no problems. One is a W95 Compaq, the other is a W98 IBM.
However, neither of these machines is used for email.
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Dan
C172RG at BFM