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Hello Bill - 

>> I don't use XP myself but am told the backup/restore
>> 'goback' functions work well. :-) 

BB> I've already had evidence of that this morning. Windows
BB> update put a modem update out for me to download -
BB> presumably because of the external modem on Com1: Did that,
BB> and then the system went haywire. Kept rebooting and dying
BB> in quick succession. Took me a couple of minutes to
BB> remember that there was a "safe mode", and to use that. Did
BB> that and restored to the point immediately before the
BB> update. 

Windows update trashed my W2K here after a 60meg download of
updates and I've not tried again since then. 

I use W2K with no 'goback' function but a third party program
that I use makes image copies of the entire OS partition for me
and I have a third party registry save/restore that also works
for NTFSv5. :-) 

There is a 'recovery console' located on the WXP CDs that I
have heard about but never used it myself.  A mini-XP OS that
can get you access to your NTFSv5 partitions if the machine
won't boot up at all (even in safe mode).

BB> Now it's back to normal and it can live without that
BB> particular modem update. Reported it manually to Microsoft,
BB> and after that the system itself did an error report,
BB> reporting an unsafe driver. 

I went to report the problem to Microsoft and the procedure was
so very tedious I gave up on that too. 

BB> I suspect that this computer is now fairly stable, and I'm
BB> off for an early night. Just had some chicken with fries
BB> and garlic mushrooms washed down with Liebfraumilch, so
BB> I'll sleep tonight. :-) 

Sounds good to me. :-) 

BB> I was configuring Argus ( which also works happiy on XM)
BB> before the driver download. I'll have to do that all over
BB> again, but that's a small price to pay for recovering from
BB> a near fatal error. 

BB> I now have C, C++, Basic, Fortran, Pascal, COBOL and Java
BB> loaded, and I've tried them out just to check that they
BB> work. I'll think about an assembler later. 

I've more than one machine going here and have not installed
any programming languages on this machine as yet unless you
count AWK. I was originally waiting to cleanup the installed OS
and get it stable then haven't had the desire to do any major
programming since that time. The other machine is 'loaded' and
I can program on that one if the spirit moves me. ;-) 

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