CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ALL:

 CA> I rebooted the machine and although NERO _seemed_ to install InCD I
 CA> found that InCD was not working. The previous partial install had
 CA> messed things up. I went to the NERO website and found two utility
 CA> programs. One to cleanup after a partial install of InCD (this 
 CA> must happen often) and another to cleanup the registry after an 
 CA> uninstall of _any_ NERO software. I download both, executed both, 
 CA> and after rebooting tried to install InCD again. This time it 
 CA> worked. :-)

 CA> It seems that as an added bonus the computer is multitasking with a
 CA> bit more vigor than before. I think the HP DLA was
 CA> 'overkill' with it's 300 or so registry entries and was slowing my
 CA> machine even when it wasn't being used? Maybe it was all the
 CA> registry 'cleaning'? 

 CA> At least I've been somewhat compensated for my 'efforts' which
 CA> means the time wasn't wasted after all. :-) 

This is one of the things that bothers me a lot about later stuff, 
anything windows 3.1 and beyond...

What all of that install software is doing is not apparent.  And what needs
to be done to fix things when it messes up is not apparent either,  unless
I want to spend some nontrivial amount of time getting to know how to mess
around in the registry and other such stuff.

The one time I tried to do that sort of thing I ended up making such a mess
out of it that the machine was hardly usable when I was done.  I ended up
wiping that installation completely,  probably a good thing anyhow,  and
re-installing from scratch.  The original install on that box was 95 with a
bunch of "corporate legacy" in there from its original home in
some office somewhere.  It was way better after that.

It's getting less than stable these days,  though.  I'm thinking that it's
time for me to build another box,  that the hardware in that one is aging
to the point where I might want to get something else going.  And when I do
that it'll be a dual-boot setup,  with linux on there as well.  The box
that's getting replaced is that compaq I've mentioned in here before,  lots
of proprietary stuff and only a P66 w/32M of ram,  it's about time to
replace it with something newer...

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