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   lic.windowsxp.general, microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion   
   XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc   
   From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:46:25 GMT, peepsys wrote:   
      
   > qwerty6523@gmail.com wrote:   
   >> On Apr 28, 10:46 am, Prisoner at War    
   >> wrote:   
   >>> Hey, anyone know what happened here??   
   >>>   
   >>> After I installed MS Office97 Small Business Edition the other   
   >>> day, my WinXP SP2 laptop has been booting up with the Win95 --   
   >>> that's **95** -- jingle instead of the usual WinXP one!   
   >>>   
   >>> How did that happen???   
   >>>   
   >>> And is this something I can customize??   
   >>>   
   >>> Pretty cool, but it'd be even better if I could define what audio   
   >>> gets played (or not at all, even!)....   
   >>>   
   >>> Anyone know??   
   >>>   
   >>> TIA!!   
   >>   
   >> hello tia, most likely office 97 has something that makes your   
   >> operating system play the 95 startup jingle, if you uninstall   
   >> office does it switch back.   
   >> also you should consider switching to ubuntu 8.04. it is the best.   
   >   
   > I hear that you can run Windows on Ubuntu using a VM. Have you   
   > tried this? If so how well did it work?   
      
   Many, many people do this. It works just fine, assuming your machine   
   is at least moderately recent. (Older machines will run s-l-o-o-o-w.)   
      
   However, I'd use something besides Ubuntu, but that's just a "personal   
   preference" thing. (Slackware rocks. Use it.)   
      
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