From: "Gary Britt" 

Thanks for the tip about the wizards.  When I was trying to work around the
wizards it was quite difficult to get the damn XP machine to display the
options that are quite easy to display on Win9x or Win2K.

My wife is an example of non-programmer non-engineer types.  XP doesn't
bother her, because she didn't understand how to do the slightest bit of
system setup stuff before, so the fact that XP makes this 10 times harder
is not noticeable to her.  I don't think XP is any easier for her to use,
just isn't harder since she didn't know what she was doing regarding setup
anyway. 

Cheers,

Gary

"Randall Parker"
 wrote in
message news:401de454$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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