->  BB> My only reason to play with it at all was to see if I could do
->  BB> something for my son who runs a small plastics company.  His heart
->  BB> and soul are tied to "Peachtree' as it does all his inventory,
->  BB> books, mailing labels etc.  No app even close out there in Lx
->  BB> world.

->  RJT> You're looking for _one_ app to do all this stuff?  That's not the
->  RJT> right approach,  no wonder you're not finding it...

-> Peachtree does it. :)

That is another point I have bveen Ignoring. Except for the "Office"
stuff there is littlew ot NO integrated softwware you need many small
programs to do what one big one does under Windows. 
That will come but at the present pace I don't see it in our Lifetime.
:-)

->  RJT> Yep.  Tons of bloat,  tons of bugs,  tons of files installed whether
->  RJT> you need them or not,  tons of options in there but not where I'd put
->  RJT> 'em,  tons of features that I'll never use,  tons of BS to come along
->  RJT> with it...

-> But as I said above, you can pare it down.  :)

 That is right, keep Windows Lean and Mean and it works quite well.
I have an excelent object lessio nlooking at the Wwifes Win 98 instal
land Mine. 
Hers bhoots up wuickly and does it job almost flawlwssly and shuts down
smoothly. Mine in contrast mine chokes and hacks on Startup becaue it
han endlessly been tweeked and has has so many cute you useless
programs added.
And before anyone says wipe the HD clean and start over I have too much
invested to start over. In fact I'll bet I couldn't even find half of my
CD's!!  :-)
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