02-10-14 19:04 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about System Properties

 ml> {at}MSGID: 
 ml> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Ed Vance wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> MyComputer is the system so it should show the system's
 ml> properties ;)

 EV> I just thought XP's My Computer desktop icon was a Shortcut for
 EV> Explorer.

 ml> all of the system type icons, mycomputer, documents, network
 ml> neighborhood, and similar, are shortcuts to explorer which is
 ml> little more (or less) than IE... they are just focused on local
 ml> resources instead of WAN (aka internet) resources... this is
 ml> why IE can't be removed from winwhatever like it used to be...
 ml> they are all using the same DLLs to render the data... this is
 ml> also why you get deutrius in the IE temporary internet files
 ml> areas even when you don't use IE for web browsing... other apps
 ml> use those system DLLs and they use the data from those cache
 ml> dirs...

Thanks Mark for explaining things to me,

Windows OS sounds very convoluted, at least you can understand it
better than I can. 

 EV> I just had a thought, I will try right clicking on My Computer and
 EV> selecting Run As... (if the option is there) and see if I can reset
 EV> the Network Card for the SyQuest drive if I've forgotten to turn on
 EV> that drive before I power up the XP box.   Thanks for the idea.

 ml> network card for a syquest drive? perhaps you mean the
 ml> controller card? ;)

You are correct again! It is a SCSI Controler Card.  DUH!
In XPs Device Manager it is under SCSI and RAID controllers and called
Advansys SCSI Host Adapter.
It is made by Advanced System Products, Inc.

It's the first SCSI thingy I've used on this XP box.
The HP ScanJet 4c I used to use on the 486 box was SCSI too, it came
with its own 8-bit ISA Card.
I never had any urge to try any other SCSI devices while I used the 4c.
I probably just thought SCSI was for the more knowledgable folks who
I figured had the $$$.$$ to purchase the stuff. ???

I'd suppose you used a lot of SCSI things either on the job or at home?

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