[Coco] gray hair syndrome

[jimcox at miba51.com]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:42:15 -0600
  Roger Taylor <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote:
>At 11:37 PM 12/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>Roger Taylor wrote:
>>
>>>At 11:17 PM 12/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>>
>>>>Roger
>>>>
>>>>You mentioned that your old as dirt 98SE does not have 
>>>>any problems. I have a
>>>>question about it. Have you done any of the updates to 
>>>>it? With all the MS security
>>>>updates there may have been a dll that chaged or 
>>>>something?
>>>>
>>>>You are fighting maybe that or the differences in display 
>>>>chips and their associated
>>>>drivers.
>>>
>>>If an update to Windows 98 causes it to lose the ability 
>>>to display multi-line tab controls, then I can't do much 
>>>about this.  However, 98 seems to be the only version, 
>>>and only some of those are doing this.
>>>I've worked around it and moved on.
>>>
>>>----------
>>>Roger Taylor
>>>
>>I meant the other way around. An update could correct the 
>>problem.
>
>This is true, but I trusted Jim Cox's word that he had 
>the latest patches.  Also, making a lot of Win98 users 
>have to visit the MS site to upgrade just to run Portal-9 
>might not be a good idea... I dunno.  I can't prove why 
>some Win98's do this.
>
>

The Windows 98 system in question was updated as soon as I 
heard that M$ was discontinuing support for Windows 98.  I 
also ordered and have received the latest update CD from 
M$ just in case I need to rebuild the system in the 
future.

Jim