I have a win98 laptop that I'm going to have to use for my upcoming 
finance class. Because of this, I'm learning how to clean up a win98
install (msconfig.exe to kill unwanted startup programs, cleaning up
drivers so windows shuts down nicely, etc.). The cool thing about
Cygwin is that you can see (via <tt>ps -aW</tt>) Windows system threads.
The bad thing is that you can't kill them. ;). 
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Oh yeah, and keeping backups of drivers you've installed is also a 
good idea. For some reason, drivers will occasionally corrupt in win98.
I have no idea why. Maybe I'll get a book on win32 internals, and maybe
I'll bring it to the tentative Saturday BBQ, where I'm known as a linux
geek. That'll cause much cha<i>grin</i>.
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