From: Randall Parker 

Gary Britt wrote:
> My wife was given a new computer with XP Pro for Christmas by one of her
> sisters.  It took me about 30 seconds to add the network printer to her
> win98 laptop.  About 15 to 30 minutes to do the same when forced to sit down
> at her XP machine.  The "helpers" didn't want to let me connect the xp
> machine to the network and the internet the way "I" wanted,
and I had to
> literally stumble around trying to get past the crazy stupid help stuff to
> try and configure it the way "I" wanted.

Gary,

The wizards are dangerous. You choose the wrong one and it will wipe out
your settings for some part of the networking that you already had working
properly.

If you want to truly add something and you go thru a wizard there are situations
where if you want more than one of whatever it is then doing that wipes out the one
you already had in there.

I thought it was just me that made the mistake of using inappropriate wizards. But I
watched another engineer I work with make the same mistake and lose stuff he already
had working right. I figure if software developers can't figure out the menus then
the regular people ougt there must be having an even worse time.

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