What happens if I just delete the registry files, are they regenerated? At 01:13 PM 12/6/01 -0000, you wrote: >Hi > >Oh well, I was only trying to prevent someone having a lot of hard work. So >I guess that it is format c: /s. > >Pity it wasn't Linux, the solution would have been a lot simpler. > >-----Original Message----- >From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com >[mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Brent Harding >Sent: 06 December 2001 04:11 >To: blinux-list@redhat.com >Subject: RE: Hello! > > >Yes, I've just run sfc, no errors. >At 08:56 PM 12/5/01 -0000, you wrote: >>Hi >> >>In answer to your question there's a nice little utility call Batch 98, you >>should find it on your 98 CD. However, have you tried running sfc? >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com >>[mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Brent Harding >>Sent: 05 December 2001 18:57 >>To: blinux-list@redhat.com >>Subject: Re: Hello! >> >> >>How did you install windows without sighted help? I think this system >>almost needs a reinstall, getting registry problems that a demo of norton >>utils won't fix. I'm getting illegal ops with kernel32. Is there a way of >>doing it easy, or do you just know the install that well to tell what the >>sequence is? By the way I use win-98 and rh 7.1. I do have a double talk pc >>available, and an external dectalk express in my laptop case. >>At 11:35 AM 12/5/01 -0500, you wrote: >>>I have not been watching this thread but just tuned in and have some >>>passages I want to respond to below with responses marked with dp: >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "John G. Heim (26 2-9887)" <jheim@doit.wisc.edu> >>>To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> >>>Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:14 AM >>>Subject: Re: Hello! >>> >>> >>>At 04:41 PM 12/3/01 -0500, you wrote: >>>>install. >>>>May I now simply suggest that you are wrong if for no other reason than >>>>that I blind person will be very hard pressed to install Windows at all >>>>without assistance? >>> >>>I'm not sure what I said that you think this disproves. My point is that >>>it >>>takes more knowledge to run a linux machine than a Windows machine. I >>>never >>>said windows can be installed without sighted assistance. The original >>>questioner doesn't have a speech synthesizer so he can't install either >>>linux or windows without sighted assistance. >>>dp: it is possible to install windows without sighted assistance but you >>>need to know how to do it. I am not certain that this is the case with >>>linux but would wager that if the propper planning were done and the >>>propper scripts available, it could be. >>> >>>About six months ago, I had a lightning strike at my home and lost the >>>hard >>>drive on both my Windows 95 and linux 5.2 machines. I bought 2 new hard >>>drives and got Windows millenium and red hat 7.1 from the university. >>>Since >>>I don't have a synthesizer, I needed sighted assistance for both >>>installs. >>>The linux install took a lot longer and took much more technical >>>knowledge. >>> >>>But that's okay. Of course it takes more knowledge to install linux than >>>windows millenium. Linux is way more powerful than windows millenium. >>> >>>dp: I take it that you mean that linux out of the box is way more >>>powerful than windows millennium or any windows system for that matter >>>and I won't take issue with that. I would say though that again, with >>>propper nknow how, you can do anything in windows that you can do in >>>linux I am a windows user but a linux fan by the way so I am not >>>bashing linux but want to keep the record streight. >>> >>>Windows is "easier" mailnly because doesn't do as much as linux. A good >>>example of this point is file permissions. Can you even set file >>>permissions in windows millenium? It doesn't really matter because you >>>don't need them anyway. >>>dp: you can set file permissions but not in the way you think of file >>>permissions. you can tell windows that you want files to behave in >>>certain ways such as be hidden, system or read only files if you know >>>how to do it. >>> >>>If you're going to use linux, you probably need to learn about file >>>permissions. How hard is that? Well, for some people it might be hard. >>> >>>Comparing apples to oranges? Yes! In fact, that's partly my point. Linux >>>does bzillions of things windows doesn't. That's why it takes so much >>>more >>>knowledge to use. If you're going to use linux, you should be prepared >>>to >>>go through the process of acquiring that knowledge. Not everybody is >>>going >>>to want to do that. >>>dp: I'd like a list of things that windows does not do that linux does. >>>I can find a way to do them. >>> >>>Note too that my own example is rather esoteric. Most machines come with >>>Windows pre-installed. Even if you replace the hard drive, you can >>>usually >>>boot from the old one, install windows on the new one, and then reboot >>>from >>>the new one -- all without sighted assistance. >>> >>>dp: none the less, I have started from an oss less hd and installed >>>windows from scratch with little to no sighted assistance and no screen >>>reader. >>> >>>-- >>>John G. 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