When a newbie (on Apple) is ""assisted"" by a pre-newbie but willful SO in er 'configuring' stuff.. a One who Foolishly Clicks On, "Set Up Your [AOL, MSN Compuserve??] Internet" - and one apparently gets just the same viral spread of unremovable wormlets throughout, as in #@$&* Beastware! - well, you know.

Time for an RRR. This Mac turned into a wineSap.. kinda like runnin yer Hemi on kerosene (to use the technical definitions).

So I haven't had time Yet to view your (it better be) Masterpiece.

But can you believe that #%^^%@# Dell installed W98 on her laptop originally, in '98 (the one with bad memory - now good memory) with 16-bit FAT + default "no-DMA" on the CD, 2 GB partition size etc. The lazy bastards musta just erased the W-95 install and loaded the W98 'upgrade'; w/o #@$%& OSR-2. 32 KB CLUSTERS !!

Anyway Two Busted machines, one Muslim t'other Catholic, in one week.

(Now she says the Dell works better than it ever has == well yeah, too: it has 144 MB instead of 80 and 32-bit FAT and a clean install + dejunking. Also because I Am A God.)


Cheers,

I, Reboot

The Microsloth frog says reboot reboot reboot