RE: FLASH: OT multiple versions of IE installed?

[Kevin Jackson]

Laura and others

	IMHO opinion System Commander is a no brainer for this business. You can

check your own files. You don't need anyone else. Except for the Mac and we

don't want to go there again.


This is their URL http://www.v-com.com/. The product I just upgraded to is

System Commander Deluxe. I had System Commander and am using that now. No

problems with it at all. I am running Win 95, Win 98, NT4 Workstation and NT

Server. (I was a trainer and was studying for an MCSE cert) You can multiple

flavors of  DOS, Windows, Linux, Unix and OS/2 on your system. Because of

this you can also have more than one of one type with browsers that are not

compatible as well. I have IE3, 4 and 5 and Netscape 4 and 4.5 on mine.


Now I'll try to address your post.


do you use this product?

	YES


i found two products with the same name when i did

a search of "system commander." one is offered by linguists software and

the other by provantage.

	They are both about the same product. The provantage is the old version of

the product


the latter appears to be out of my technical

realm. which were you referring to?

	Depending on what you want to do either of them might work. New version

also allows you to partition on the fly (something Microsoft warned against

with Partition Magic-Not sure what they think about System Commander's

version-They did like System Commander's way of boot control per the tech I

checked with

)

also, in searching i found a lot of reference to the software "partition

magic." this software, along with the idea of creating a dual boot system

was also mentioned on the other list. my question here is " is this

software, along with "partition magic" usable by someone with my level of

experience (ie: none)?

	See above. System Commander Deluxe has it all in one package if you need to

do that. As for level of experience, everything is relative. I wouldn't say

it's beginner level stuff but it has some great dividends. Their help desk

was quite good when I did it the first time. If you could charge a geek to

set it up for you if you're not comfortable, I'd recommend the product.


Has anyone here, with little to no experience with this sort

of thing, used either of these products and found them to indeed be "idiot

proof"?

	Nothing is idiot proof


is one piece of software all that is required to achieve this?

	Yes if System Commander Deluxe


if i took this route, i would like to either set-up a boot off of a zip

disk or divide my D drive which still has 310MB of unused space.

	If you are going to do this I'd recommend a bigger hard drive or more

space. 310 is a bit slim. One of the things that this allows you to do is

totally separate the OS partitions which allows for clean testing but you

won't have much free space after the OS with 310.


Drive Carefully etc.....


A note of caution:

	I hate things like this. "Don't warn me at all if you're not going to warn

me about something specific." Companies IMO should never do this.



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