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glee wrote:
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).

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Bill
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