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Dear Tek, thanks for your reply! >> two primary partitions is part of the problem. >> You can do it, but it throws the order of logical partitions off when Windows reads the MBR at bootup. I have all the four primaries the architecture allows. One (the 3rd) is an extended partition with...

On my trusted, battle-scarred laptop I have had a lot of partitions for several years: C: Primary, 3GB, Windows 98 + apps D: Primary, 50MB, DOS (bootable with some tricks, FAT16) E: Logical, 500MB, temporary files F: Logical, 400MB, Windows swap (FAT16) G: Logical, 1500MB, hot work files +...

If you decide to keep at least 2 partitions, you can set Win98 up to keep the "My Documents" and "Desktop" folders on another drive. Even better, assuming the 4 partitions are the same size and that the PC can manage 1 partition twice as large as the ones have now, you could do like this: 1)...

Thank you Daniel! So associations are just recorded as ascii userid strings, w/o any additional obfuscation, right? Simpler than I feared. Filippo / spamhog Computer Victim (as in "fashion victim") - Milan, North Poldavia - http://filippo.ru.ru 40% WinME, 40% Linux (Debian...

Perhaps you want a lower-level-of-abstraction reply. All distros nowadays recognize existing partitions. DO BACK EVERYTHING UP. But if you are sure you can tell where your user data is (i.e. in which partition /home is), you can define the mountpoint of that partition as /home again, tell the...

I am definitely not an expert on this, but I am afraid you're barking under the wrong tree. X is a "server" but you have to consider that its clients are the applications. You are "sitting" in front of the "server" and apps (local or remote) use the X server on...

Letting a user hack registry is courting trouble, even through layers of *.bat and read-only *.reg.... Consider this thingie: IP Switcher http://www.softmate.co.kr/UK/ipswitcher/product-basic.htm or http://leader.linkexchange.com/X1703135/showiframe? Filippo / spamhog Computer Victim...

Forgot to mention... I might have eradicated IE, but I reckon I need it to do Windows Update. I know of no other browser that can trick the WU site into believing it's a genuine MSIE. I just use IE as a dedicated WU utility. This is another concern regarding alternative shells. How deep...

Thanks! I had heard about that one. I never use the Internet Explorer infrastructure, neither directrly through the IE interface nor through IE-based "alternative" browsers. Right now I am using Opera, which I strongly recommend and just selected as default browser - relatively fast...

I see there is a good number of windowing shells that replace the original windowing infrastructure of Windows. I think they are related to both the old X-windows of the DOS era and to today's X server used in Unix. I have the impression that very few people use them, and just for the hell of...

Don't waste perfectly good hard disks!!! Wiping data off electronically is very easy. You can reach an NSA lever of unrecoverability with just a bit of running time (multiple presudorandom overwrites), but just a couple of random passes + a good scrub of the partition table will be enough to...

I see that some solid state IDE "hard drives" [smallish, expensive, shockproof] are available. Does anyone have experience with them? Price? Speed? Boot times? (On what OS/comp?) Just curious. - Investigating static RAM market. - Wonder if HD substitution is any closer now than 15...