Bill Sanderson MVP said:
We could mention that XP starts with the NT code base--i.e. it is descended
from Windows 2000--rather than the code base which ended with Millennium.
Putting David Cutler's OS out there on every consumer desktop (except my
Mother-in-law, who I just visited on the occasion of her 90th birthday, who
is with you--Windows 2000)--is a pretty significant accomplishment in my
view.
I'll give you points on David Cutler's OS. VMS worked very well.<g>
I wonder what we would have today if the OS2/Windows program in Boca had
survived.
Personally, I could do without Restore Points. XP insists on putting a
"System Information Volume" in every partition. You can turn it off for
individual partitions, but should you ever disable all and re-enable, every
partition get a new "System Information Volume. That's a real pain when
you're trying to set up Linux. I'd be much happier if I could enable it only
on the XP partition and make it stick.
To this day I consider Windows 2000 to be the most stable system I've run. I
guess I'm just an old stick-in-the-mud, but I prefer an all business OS
without the eye candy, just do the job and stay out of my way while giving
me all the system utilities I need to set up and run the system *my* way.
If I seem a little cranky, it may be due to a recent all-nighter I pulled
fighting the Microsoft way of doing things. I have XP and 2000 on my second
HD. While using gpart, a Linux related utility to set up my first HD for a
Linux install, I hurt myself badly by totally wiping my first HD. Getting
back to operation wasn't easy. I used Bart-PE to clean the partitions. Then
I did a partial install of Windows 98 to run fdisk and format. That was
followed by a partial install of XP to get to the recovery console to use
bootcfg /rebuild. Now I could edit boot.ini on the first partition of the
first HD.
There has *got* to be a better way!
I feel better now. Thank you. <bEg>
Bob Vanderveen