Can "System Restore Points" be locked?

That IS interesting - that Bart's PE Creator handles the creation of partitions on a
hard-drive as well!

Concerning your comments about the delimiter above my sig. I was TOLD (in no
uncertain terms) that having
"--" as the delimiter negatively affects some newsreaders - cutting the rest of the
text off at that point.
So I specifically changed it (it's not automatic - I have to do this manually EVERY
time I post a reply) to "==" to avoid problems with these newsreaders.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
...
In message , Tim Meddick
writes:
That's interesting as I don't have a CD/DVD writer - just a cd-rom

(This - a netbook - doesn't have either, though it works fine with an external
one.)

drive, but I do have two hard-drives installed and might look into doing something
along those lines, now that I know it's possible.

I _don't_ have two hard drives; the boot menu that offers me the two choices,
BartPE and Windows, is on the same drive (and, I think, partition) as Windows is.
And I didn't do anything special - I'm not that good at such things; it was all set
up for me as part of the BartPE installation.

BTW changing the "time-out" of the OS choices menu is as simple as text-editing the
root-file "boot.ini" and changing the very first lines:

[boot loader]
timeout=1

You may have to change the file's attributes in order to see / save the file.
Alternatively, there's a built-in editor for the "boot.ini" file.

I probably used one of those options.
[]
==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
[]
There is a good reason for having your .sig delimiter as "-- " (note the space)
rather than "==".
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

I'm getting pretty enough for radio now (Desmond Lynam in Radio Times, 1998)

In message , Tim Meddick
writes:
That IS interesting - that Bart's PE Creator handles the creation of
partitions on a hard-drive as well!

Hmm. I'm not sure it does anything about partitions: I think it just
hooks into the menu system that is part of Windows (isn't it a .ini file
somewhere?).

Concerning your comments about the delimiter above my sig. I was TOLD
(in no uncertain terms) that having
"--" as the delimiter negatively affects some newsreaders - cutting the
rest of the text off at that point.
So I specifically changed it (it's not automatic - I have to do this
manually EVERY time I post a reply) to "==" to avoid problems with
these newsreaders.

Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that you top-post. Yes, when I reply to a posting
(or an email), my news/mail software (by default - I can override) snips
at the delimiter, so that I don't post/mail people's signatures back to
them or to the newsgroup. If the post/email being responded to hasn't
placed his/her text below the points he/she is responding to (as I've
done here), but leaves all of the original post below, then yes it will
get snipped (by default).

I'll leave the rest of your post this time (-:
==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
...
In message , Tim Meddick
writes:
That's interesting as I don't have a CD/DVD writer - just a cd-rom

(This - a netbook - doesn't have either, though it works fine with an
external one.)

drive, but I do have two hard-drives installed and might look into
doing something along those lines, now that I know it's possible.

I _don't_ have two hard drives; the boot menu that offers me the two
choices, BartPE and Windows, is on the same drive (and, I think,
partition) as Windows is. And I didn't do anything special - I'm not
that good at such things; it was all set up for me as part of the
BartPE installation.

BTW changing the "time-out" of the OS choices menu is as simple as
text-editing the root-file "boot.ini" and changing the very first lines:

[boot loader]
timeout=1

You may have to change the file's attributes in order to see / save
the file. Alternatively, there's a built-in editor for the "boot.ini"


I probably used one of those options.
[]
==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
[]
There is a good reason for having your .sig delimiter as "-- " (note
the space) rather than "==".
-- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985
MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

I'm getting pretty enough for radio now (Desmond Lynam in Radio
Times, 1998)


--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -e.e. cummings, poet
(1894-1962)

In message , Tim Meddick
writes:
That IS interesting - that Bart's PE Creator handles the creation of
partitions on a hard-drive as well!

Hmm. I'm not sure it does anything about partitions: I think it just
hooks into the menu system that is part of Windows (isn't it a .ini file
somewhere?).

Concerning your comments about the delimiter above my sig. I was TOLD
(in no uncertain terms) that having
"--" as the delimiter negatively affects some newsreaders - cutting the
rest of the text off at that point.
So I specifically changed it (it's not automatic - I have to do this
manually EVERY time I post a reply) to "==" to avoid problems with
these newsreaders.

Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that you top-post. Yes, when I reply to a posting
(or an email), my news/mail software (by default - I can override) snips
at the delimiter, so that I don't post/mail people's signatures back to
them or to the newsgroup. If the post/email being responded to hasn't
placed his/her text below the points he/she is responding to (as I've
done here), but leaves all of the original post below, then yes it will
get snipped (by default).

I'll leave the rest of your post this time (-:
==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
...
In message , Tim Meddick
writes:
That's interesting as I don't have a CD/DVD writer - just a cd-rom

(This - a netbook - doesn't have either, though it works fine with an
external one.)

drive, but I do have two hard-drives installed and might look into
doing something along those lines, now that I know it's possible.

I _don't_ have two hard drives; the boot menu that offers me the two
choices, BartPE and Windows, is on the same drive (and, I think,
partition) as Windows is. And I didn't do anything special - I'm not
that good at such things; it was all set up for me as part of the
BartPE installation.

BTW changing the "time-out" of the OS choices menu is as simple as
text-editing the root-file "boot.ini" and changing the very first lines:

[boot loader]
timeout=1

You may have to change the file's attributes in order to see / save
the file. Alternatively, there's a built-in editor for the "boot.ini"


I probably used one of those options.
[]
==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
[]
There is a good reason for having your .sig delimiter as "-- " (note
the space) rather than "==".
-- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985
MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

I'm getting pretty enough for radio now (Desmond Lynam in Radio
Times, 1998)


--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -e.e. cummings, poet
(1894-1962)