What do folks here see as the merits and limitations of these two OS, as
compared and contrasted with each other.
Has anyone used both?
DSH

For convenience resaons I would like a specific directory to appear at
two locations.
The fsutil help only talks about files, not directories. Is it possible
to set hard links to directories, too?

I have used the folder properties menu to assign a single picture to given
folders but have found that the image is now automatically assigned to many
other folders as well. Some of these can no longer be changed by selecting
restore default in their individual folder properties ...

Sorry to bother you all...
just a quickie.. I would like to add the Calculator to my toolbar.. (the one
at the bottom of the screen so to speak)...
I how do i go about it....

here is the situation
Win XP was installed on my hard disk D drive, then i installed win xp on
hard disk C drive. After installation i deleted the folder windows and
program files on the D drive.

I have since purchased PSP 9 and now all my pictures open up with that
program (too Slow!) - how do I change ALL my files back to open up with
Windows Pictures and Fax Viewer

I don't know how this has happened, but now every time I move the cursor
out of a window, the window disappears. It makes it really hard to drag
and drop files. The window you're dragging from disappears, then you
get that one back (from the bar on the bottom) and while you're ...

I have a new Dell laptop with WinXP Pro SP2. They apparently customized the
shut down menu. Windows is configured as a domain member so it is the old
style shut down dialog with the drop down box to select Shut Down, Restart,
Suspend, or Hibernate. Whenever shut down is chosen ...

As I'm trying to track down instability in one of my programs (Memory
Map), I decided to use the XP SFC tool. I did a quick google to remind
myself of its syntax. At this page
http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html

Creating a Restore Point on my system seems to consume about 20 MB.
Is that fairly standard -- or is it widely variable?
Thanks.
DSH

After the posts from DSH and others, I decided to use my new 250GB external
drive as a backup for my C: Drive
As was done by one poster (was it DSH), I decided to start with backing up
all of "C:\Documents and Settings"

I have a very simple problem, but I am unaware as how to fix it. I want to
change my desktop background colour from this boring shade of sand, to white.
I do this by right clicking on my desktop going to properties then clicking
the desktop theme. I select white as my colour. It ...

Hey people, im looking for a way to tell a program that starts up when i
login to wait X seconds before starting, like for non-essential but ressource
hogging background/tasktray items.
Sounds simple but i've searched google and these newsgroups and the 2 main

It is possible to modify the blue color from the taskbar to another color,
but
without changing the visual styles neither the desk color?. Also, in those
alone visual styles you can select 3 colors, blue, silver and green.

Are there any particular dangers involved in using Disk Defragmenter to
defragment an external hard drive used for storing XP backups of everything
on the computer?
DSH