Ah, that brings back memories ...
of installing NT 4.0 on the home computer so the missus couldn't throw away all those little files that cluttered the home directory of the Win 3.1 system she managed to prang thoroughly by removing things like config.sys, autoexec.bat, etc. Oh well, live and learn. Luckily I was (and am still) pretty obsessive (or paranoid) when it comes to making back-ups, and recovery disks, so I got it sorted pretty quickly. I didn't want to foist Linux on her, so got NT 4 instead (and installed Linux for my own use as well). I must say NT 4 (and later Win 2000) worked much better than the '95, '98, and ME (shudder) alternatives at the time
Biting the hand that feeds IT
