MIKE POWELL wrote to TOM WALKER

MP>I am a little leary of XP simply because I know I will become the
MP>"support contact person" on this family-members PC, and I am not very
MP>familiar with it.  We use it at work, and it seems to work fine, but
MP>when something goes wrong, it seems to me to be a lot more
MP>unforgiving than Win9x.

No question about it being more "unforgiving".  Just about 99% of all 
new pre-installations of XP are formatted using NTFS primarily because 
of the very large hard drives that come with the systems.  This makes it 
very difficult if not impossible for the average PC user to recover from 
errors.

MS brags about the recovery console and so forth, but again most users 
don't know how to use it.  Consequently, they wind up re-installing the 
OS even though the error(s) may be easy to resolve.

Regards.

cscag{at}charter.net

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