Re: Can't open Xy in XP -- A thousand THANK YOUS!!!

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

--- "Patricia M. Godfrey"  wrote:

> I had not thought of something so
> detailed. I wonder
> though, if many people do as much tweaking as that?

Probably not. But if you want to be in relative
control, and not a victim of circumstances (at the
mercy of ScanSoft, D-Link, and others), it's not that
much trouble, and definitely the way to go.

> I tend to install an
> app and leave it, on the premise that "if it ain't
> broke, don't fix it."

Much of what you saw in the sample was elective, some
of it wasn't. As security flaws in Mozilla came to
light and were fixed in subsequent releases, doing
those updates was highly advisable. (Your browser is
among the primary points of vulnerability.) The same
situation occurs regularly with Win itself, IE, and
some other items.

 > poring over those files to
> find the discrepancies (even Xy's file compare
> command doesn't usually
> work, because of different orders, dates, and file
> sizes) can be so
> tedious that one just gives up in despair.

Yes, you definitely want to have a good utility
keeping track of that stuff, so you won't have to.
ERUNT / ERDNT is one. CONFIGSAFE is another.


Jordan