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Skriven 2005-12-12 22:57:00 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av TOM WALKER
Ärende: Re: XP does it again
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Hello Tom - 

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TW> Yuo are missing my Point. MS recomenbds that theri Wizard
TW> be used fro setting up the LAN when in Reality many SHOULD
TW> NOT USE IT. Where is the Cautionary NOTe i nthe Process.
TW> THAT IS A SERIOUS FLAW i nWinXP. 

The XP wizard tells you it can write a 'setup floppy' for the
W98SE machine. That is apparently not entirely true. It did not
work for me after several repeated attempts. 

What we can all agree to is that WinXP _will_ network with
W98SE. The XP OS has that capability as does the W98SE OS. 

Where the disagreement comes into play is what the probability
is that this will work if you follow Microsoft's instructions.
My experience would lead me to believe the answer is "No, it
will not work". 

Many people can do complex tasks but are unable to explain
_how_ they do it so that others can read their explanation(s)
and suceed. I suspect that this inability to communicate at the
level of a first-time attempt to network is a part of the
problem and this seems to apply to Microsoft as much as to
anyone here reading this. 

For instance, I can't remember if I turned off the firewall or
not. I am thinking this first 'step' is important but seldom
mentioned. 

As I have followed many printed instructions to setup this
networking I have noticed variations in each one. Never the
same steps and often steps are omitted. A person who has
networked _many_ machines would probably assume that certain
steps are 'obvious' but to a person doing this for the first
time _nothing_ is really obvious and everything seems just a
bit 'goofy' IMO but maybe that's just me? 

The other problem for _me_ is that neither machine was a virgin
install. Having never attempted to network Windows machines
before I had no idea if what I was seeing in the various menus
were standard default installed parameters or altered
parameters that the owner of the machines had put there in a
_previous_ failed attempt to network the machines. In all
fairness to those of us who have never read these menus as a
standard default install I would think somewhere there should
be a listing of what parameters you should find _before_ you
attempt to configure networking so that any extraneous or
harmful parameters can be changed back to default or removed
entirely? 

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