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Bill, in this scenario you describe, are you saying you
attribute running the Linux Live CD to causing the Windows
Installer pop-up when you started Windows? Are you implying that
the Linux CD boot caused the execution of a Windows Installer
executable, even though Linux can't run a Windows Installer
file? How do you figure that?

Windows Installer pop-ups like that are due to an incomplete or
faulty install of a program that uses Windows Installer. How do
you reconcile that with your claim?

No Glen... what I am saying that this Windows XP runs fine and
dandy for years. No problems whatsoever. I don't know if
iband.dll involves the Windows Installer every time it boots? I
might, but you never see the window. Anyway no problems
whatsoever. Now you just boot up Ubuntu Live and do nothing with
it. Don't peek into the Windows partition or anything. And just
shut Linux down. Totally harmless I would think.

Now if you boot Windows XP, it locks up. What gives? It was Linux
Live, plain and simple. I have demonstrated this a number of
times and it happened every single time. There is no excuse,
Linux is doing something to Windows. Sure whatever it is doing,
most users wouldn't know a thing. I truly believe that. But
whatever it is doing it can make some Windows unbootable.

As far as I am concern, whether Linux Live leaves Windows
bootable or not. That isn't the point. The most important point
is that it shouldn't be doing anything to Windows at all without
your permission. But it does and I caught it with my XP system
(and it is reproducible).

...yet no one else seems to have repro'd it or documented it. That
tends to point to an issue on your system, not with Linux
Live CD. As I said, we'll have to agree to disagree.

You can't be serious? It is documented for one. It is documented
when you compile the source. And how do you explain it is my
system? You can't come up with one single working theory how it can
be my system! This isn't rocket science. Any five year old can
figure this out. But you can't? Why is that?

You apparently don't understand the meaning of "documented" in this
dialog. It has nothing to do with compiling, that statement doesn't
make sense. I stated no one else has reproduced your issue, it is
not documented as being an issue anywhere I have seen other than in
your posts about it.

The people who you claim has never seen my issue, also has never
compiled Linux either. People who has compiled Linux before knows
exactly what I am talking about. You can compile it many different
ways. If it can use the Windows swapfile or not, how much RAM can it
use, whether it uses a swapfile at all, etc.
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There you go with "compiling" again.
If you made your Ubuntu Live CD from the downloaded ISO they made
available, it is already compiled, you didn't compile it.....

Yes I used the same ISO and no I didn't compile it myself. But somebody
else did it for us. Presumably someone from Ubuntu.

and it does not by default use the swap file or mount the hard drive
when the CD is made from the ISO available from Ubuntu's site.

If you say so. But I have my doubts about that. As you don't know what
the person who compiled it actually did. Or do you?

If you compiled it yourself from source, then it is no longer the
standard Live CD, you modified it.

Yes, and those I don't have a single problem with. As I tell Linux to
leave Windows alone and it does.

You claim you used the standard ISO, so you didn't compile it. If you
compiled it, you didn't use the standard ISO. So which is it?

I only compiled Xandros. I never compiled any Ubuntu ones and those are
the one that I have had problems with.

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Bill
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