In message , Steve Swift
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
What _was_ Blueblack.bmp - the company logo you didn't like? It seems
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It's an IBM branded bitmap (as in Big Blue). It appeared early in the
boot process, and may well have been the default wallpaper, but since I
always chose my own desktop bitmap, it doesn't persist long, and
doesn't appear at all now. I can't explain my motive for wanting to
remove it; it just irritates me for some reason.

IBM doesn't actually lock down much at all on the systems that it ships
to us, just stuff like antivirus settings, and some firewall stuff.

Ah - I thought you had meant it was something your employer had put on,
rather than the computer supplier.

It's a pleasant environment for the technically competent. And fiddlers
like me. There's nearly always a way around the restrictions anyway, if
you try hard enough. I even like the fact that we are still mostly on
XP. At my age, I like things that don't change. I got my new PC on

Likewise, at my employer.

January 6th, to replace my previous 5-year old one, and was instantly
right at home, with all the skills/tricks that I've learned still
working (not to mention software that I'd purchased). I can now look
forward to another 5 years honing those skills. It will be interesting
to see what happens when XP goes out of support. We purchased an

Indeed!

extension to Win95 support the last time we were in this situation.

Sounds expensive.
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** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

"Anything else you'd like me to do while I'm at it? Paint the sky green? Bury
the odd elephant I find lying around ..." - Tidy, the Android - Earthsearch II,
part 2. (1982-5-2)