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glee wrote:
"BillW50" wrote in message
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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).

...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?

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Bill
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