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   Sjouke Burry to Lawrence Logic   
   Re: Taskbar moved to top of screen, won'   
   07 Aug 10 18:17:35   
   
   XPost: alt.windows-xp, alt.comp.os.windows-xp   
   From: burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll   
      
   Lawrence Logic wrote:   
   > "Joe Zeff"  wrote in message   
   > news:4c5c6477$0$7062$ec3e2dad@unlimited.usenetmonster.com...   
   >> I was speaking in the general case.  Most people who know just enough to   
   >> be dangerous don't realize it, making them even more of a danger than   
   >> they'd otherwise be.   
   >>   
   >   
   > That reminds me of a chap I used to work with many years ago.  There wasn't   
   > much happening so he decided to clear out some files from the work computer   
   > that he'd "inherited".  He discovered a couple of strange hidden files in   
   > the root of C: and, after several attempts, managed to delete them.  When he   
   > rebooted, the computer wouldn't play ball.  He'd deleted msdos.sys and   
   > io.sys!   
   >   
   > I won't divulge Warren Cox's name because that would be indiscrete...   
   >   
   After the tenth time a co-worker asked me how to close wordperfect,   
   I told him to use crtl-alt-del.   
   After he did that, he never asked that again....   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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