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On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:51:16 +1200, "~misfit~"
<misfit61nz@hooya.com.au> wrote:

>Somewhere on teh intarweb "ald" typed:
>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:04:30 +1200, "~misfit~"
>> <misfit61nz@hooya.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Somewhere on teh intarweb "ald" typed:
>>
>>>> Lol, you can believe that I'll be playing D3 when it comes out :-)
>>>
>>> Excellent! Hopefully I'll see you there then.
>>
>> Heh, I actually got a Ladder Paladin into Act 2/Normal this morning,
>> that's relatively *fast* for me ;-)
>
>Woohoo!!! <g>
>
>>>> As
>>>> far as whether that means I'll give up that other game, well, that
>>>> pretty much depends on what my friends do. The *only* reason I
>>>> started playing it was because the computer I had at the time
>>>> (since replaced, except for the hard drive which is in the new
>>>> computer) wouldn't connect to BNet, so it was either play WoW of
>>>> don't play with my friends. This computer has no problems with BNet
>>>> (despite accessing it from the same hard drive, I *still* have no
>>>> idea what the old one's problem was), and I do have a few very
>>>> low-level characters I play when the WoW realms are down for
>>>> maintenance.
>>>
>>> That's odd about the PC. By same HDD do you mean that you left the
>>> same Windows (?) install on and just swapped the drive into the new
>>> PC or did you re-install Windows?
>>
>> New Windows version came with the new PC, but I didn't touch the
>> install on the old HD, which was added to the new PC. I actually got
>> the HD from the oldest PC added, too, although there were no problems
>> with that one before (other than running out of room on it), there are
>> currently no problems with it, other than an odd program or two that
>> don't like the new version of Windows.
>
>Ahh, ok, got it now. That makes sense as some programmes won't run unless 
>the entries that were written when the programme was installed are in the 
>Windows registry. There's a chance that the proggies that you say don't like 
>the new Windows version would actually run if they were re-installed and the 
>registry entries written to the operating version of Window's registry.
>
><phew>
>
>Cheers,
>-- 
>Shaun.

Thanks, I'll look into that ;-) The specific one I remember is a
rarely used lyrics program that I got from a recommendation from SR.
Considering that I was using Windows 95 when I got it, it might not be
a bad idea to get an updated version anyway, no? ;-)

ald
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