Hello folks

As you were saying John:

(not 320? 160G seems to be a boilerplate for netbooks!)
[why have you got two?]
received wisdom seemed to be that XP was much happier
with 2G than 1, so I bought a 2G module;

You are right on there John, my speed got ahead of my attention to
detail. I have 2
because I've taken on a horse training job far from home and want to
be able to use
a satelite skype video connection to keep in touch.
Is it possible the Ram usage of XP is a consequence of some XP
applications ram requirements?
Personally I go for the faster lighter breeds though I keep
msWorks4.5, softmaker2007, and open office3.2
on hand, they all do the same jobs only progressively more
ponderously, and sometimes
I really do need a heavier tool for a particular job. I'm beginning a
big new writing and
want to run Zotero which requires Firefox 3, so need XP's horsepower.
I will have to look
0up ERUNT. Isn't the built in restore accessable from DOS? can you
not run regrestore etc?


(Though keeping the left pane in Explorer showing the tree has taken some cuffing,
and still doesn't always work, such as when opening a .zip file.)

Exactly why I installed XYPlorer and made it default shell..

(As a rough rule, I've often found that old friends whose
latest version will work with XP, but will still work with '9x, tend to
have remained speedy and simple to use.)

Now that is a great tip, thanks

I fear that's limited to the 56k ,,,
'phone line I would say that, to a first approximation, a large part
[probably 50%
of the 'net is, for practical purposes, now unusable on dialup.

Big downloads can be problematic for me but I don't use the machines
as a surogate
TV or entertainment centre, well, I do try out a lot of software, I
suppose that's
playing with machines isn't it? I do hard core research when I'm on
line and
write when I'm not.

I've used a "dot matrix" [impact] printer with XP

I rue the day I came home to find my landscape wide epson dotmatrix
had
been relegated to a dump. run by a short term overly enthusiastic
bunkmate.

There's a thing around called something like kernelx
Yes, it works wonderfully though it can create DLL hell on some 98
configurations,
I have a nice toshiba techra 8000 that belches and moans still after
a month of messing
with library version numbers.

progress is in general good.
I turned 65 a while back, you just blew your covers young fellow.

You used DOS, and survived without XTree? (For those that don't know,
it's a - character-mode - utility that gives a file/disc access
interface not that dissimilar to Windows Explorer.) In almost any old
publicity shot from my old department in which a monitor screen was
visible, the familiar blue of the XTree/XTGold screen.

I used PCTools, it had 3 windows, a directories, a files, and an
ASCII, dB, or Hex
rendering of the file itself. Then I "rented" a copy of GeoWorks which
somehow
stayed on my little 286's hard drive, 16 Mb ?
(that I ran off a solar panel, 3 car batteries, +backup honda for
winter)
That worked better than any windows till
w3.11 for workgroups I think it was. So no, I never did use norton
commander type
tools You might like some of the things XYPlorer does. It shows hex/
binary/ascii/
simple dB in a little screen at the bottom , and has a pretty good
super grep type search/replace function.

Have you run across a russian affair called Connect, or sometimes the
IBM handshaker?
It's outrageous, does everything, has a built in html reader writer,
dB, csv reader, I
can't remember all it does. Thing is though the help files and ini's
and configs are all
in flipping russian cyrilics and all. I live in the bush and have
never had help
fixing my computers when they gibble, which windows always seems to
do. (and I'm seldom rich)
You wouldn't believe the endless hours I've spent with Connect, in
DOS, trying
to recover some long file named creative work of genius (so I always
told myself)
so I could plug away at it using Qedit.

Well thanks for replying to my post you guys and good luck to you with
your netbook John
Now the cow is bawling.

yours

douglas

If only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.