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BoLt 
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 Posted: 30 April 2004 at 11:43am |
I guess this is a case of Microsoft having a good idea on starting off then lost it LOL.
I do sympathize with you -boRg- big time.
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BoLt (Computer Engineer)
I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick.
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the boss
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Posted: 30 April 2004 at 1:24pm |
 BoLt wrote:
I guess all we can do is inform them that having no upto date virus software is like standing in the middle of a busy road, It won’t be long until your hit, big time.
Maybe one day IPS’s will take responsibility to kick users off that are not using upto date virus software or ISPs will include virus software when registering with an ISP.
I would not be suppressed if B Gates combines this into windows and crate another monopoly and court battel.
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some isp's here have a system to detect if u r contribuing to spread of viruses and they will temporary suspend ur account , i seriously wish that an antivirus software should be built into windows.. even if it drives the OS cost a little bit or even if the AV software is thirdparty 
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BoLt
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Posted: 30 April 2004 at 3:33pm |
All I can say is top marks to the ISPs that do suspend ur accounts for this. This seams the only way to get the point over to PC users. I have seen solicitors, accountants and doctors PCs all with no virus software and yes loads of viruses, no backup and also connected to DSL the open hackers gateway to your PC. This Internet needs a big shake up against spam, hackers, viruses and the only ones that can help in this is the ISPs and operating system creators.
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BoLt (Computer Engineer)
I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick.
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Posted: 03 May 2004 at 1:15pm |
Yeah, I remember "Disk Doctor" that came with 3.11. There was also a way to salvage files off the hard disc even after you have deleted them. As long as they weren't overwritten by another file, you could recover them.
Windows 3.11 was the best version of Windows ever. It was all downhill after that.
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Posted: 03 May 2004 at 2:01pm |
Win 3.1 was before I knew what a computer was all I can remember is Win95
BTW, new  virus out. It's called Sasser and it's quite similar to Blaster/MSBlast..
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Posted: 04 May 2004 at 6:19am |
One of the computer buffs I work with remember it, It only shows you win 3.1 was advanced for it’s time and loads of good thinking behind it. What happened????
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BoLt (Computer Engineer)
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Posted: 04 May 2004 at 10:26am |
I remember 3.1 as being a real PITA to get installed, and then crashing a lot it you ran more than a couple of apps. Used task switching instead of multi-tasking. Couple of DOS things did a better job of task switching.
Also, there were 3 memory models - standard, advanced, and something else. Needed a phd in config.sys/auto exec to get anything to run - provided you could find drivers that worked on your hardware.
Once it was set up for your hardware though, it didn't change a whole lot. Of course that was pre-internet. Seems like 90% of the issues with 2000/XP are internet security related.
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Posted: 04 May 2004 at 12:07pm |
The main thing I remember about 3.1 is having for some strange reason to copy it to a cd disk and copy it back to the pc. I then got course if it would run off the CD disk it did slow at booting up but run as if still on the hard drive.
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BoLt (Computer Engineer)
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www.welshlens.co.uk
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