> Yes, you have to log on to Earthlink with your full e-mail address
> and password, but my Internet Explorer does this automatically. And IE
> is *all* I use. I only signed up with EL *because* I wouldn't have to
> use their software.
> The next step, of course, is to get rid of IE. I'm reading through
> the installation manual and trying to get up the nerve to re-install XP
> (Which I have to do in order to divide my HD into 2 equal primary
> partitions because of the way the turkeys at Gateway did it initially)
Nah...I did it on my notebook using partition magic. If you don't have a
copy, see if some techie where you work has a copy (that's where I found
mine).
> and am sending off for the 2.2r5 CDs in the near future.
> Greetings to you one and all from a quaking newbie who is tired of
> being shoved around by MS.
Most of us were at one time.
