Here's 1 I bet you can't answer

[MaPomme]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

@MaPomme. Just curious as to why you even bother with ME? The other 2 i can understand.

I agree that ME is the worst of the three . On my HD, it's a very small partition, which I can restore very fast (one minute ! ). I use it only to avoid the traps of the installers : I install the software under Me, but put the software in another partition. I see and note what has been installed (registry and so on) and... I restore immediately the ME Partition as it was before the installation. Then I use the new software (but without the traps of the installers) on 98 and/or XP.

Bonjour chez vous,

Ma Pomme

[Grumpy]

Thanks Mapomme, thats sounds like a mighty fine idea! Not that I am going to do it but it does sound very logical indeed.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hey fixr,

Windows XP is based on Windows NT technology which is _completely different_ from the Windows 9X series, even if, starting Windows NT 3.51 I think, the operating system looks like the Windows 9X series and has a remarkably similar API (programming interface for applications)! So, making native Windows NT softwares to run under the Windows 9X series is completely out of question!

Just for the record, I have MS-DOS 5.0 (!!! ), Windows 98 (Gold Edition) and Windows XP Professional SP1, all on different partitions.

Joe

[MaPomme]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

making native Windows NT softwares to run under the Windows 9X series is completely out of question!

But making native Windows 9x softwares to run under the Windows NT series was very well done by MS with Windows XP. Amazing, a programming tour de force.

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

Just for the record, I have MS-DOS 5.0 (!!! ), Windows 98 (Gold Edition) and Windows XP Professional SP1, all on different partitions.

I'm also curious : why MS-DOS if you have 98 ? You can go from 98 to DOS at boot time (98 is booting under DOS).

Bonjour chez vous,

Ma Pomme

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hey Ma Pomme,

Whenever something really goes wrong, nothing else than plain DOS will help you. (Sometimes, even Linux might not boot. And I don't know where its disk editor is and how to use it anyway. ) Also, I was raised on DOS (having had a PC now for a decade) and I code DOS softwares (small and large ones, as well), so I sometimes need real DOS to test them. E.g. how could you code a long file name emulator for DOS when you don't run DOS?

Ahhh, anyway, off topic! Drop me an E-mail if you wanna chat. Also, have a look at my software collection on my homepage. Bye,

Joe