home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   WIN95      Chat about Windows 95, 98, ME systems      13,597 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 10,998 of 13,597   
   Sean Dennis to TOM WALKER   
   XP Backup   
   30 Jul 14 13:08:39   
   
   Hello, TOM.   
      
   29 Jul 14 at 06:56, you wrote to me:   
      
    TW> There is a Registry edit one can do to change it if one needs or wants   
    TW> to do so and no reinstall is necessary.   
      
   From experience, messing with that low level of a setting on a functioning    
   Windows installation is like throwing a hand grenade in a car: there's going    
   to be damage.  Just because you CAN do it doesn't mean you should.   
      
    TW> It is not for the typical Win user though as you can really mess   
    TW> things up   
      
   Yeah, it's not for the atypical Windows user either.  As has been said before,    
   just because you can do something like that doesn't mean it will work.     
   Windows will break.  I've had customers who didn't listen to me then paid me    
   $65 an hour to undo the damage they did, generally by having to reinstall    
   Windows and wipe their hard drive completely.   
      
   It's amazing how much money you can make off of Windows users who think they    
   know how Windows works...and then break it irrevocably. :)   
      
   Later,   
   Sean   
      
   ... There is no limit to how bad things can get.   
   --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20130910   
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN, USA (1:18/200)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca