My dear friend Bob
In India we say that when an old bullock stops pulling the plough, release it instead of coaxing or beting it. (It has worked its life out so go and buy a new one and let it graze in peace!). After wasting precious time on tweaks and calling for help to locals at India and sending messages and answers from you guys at C-Net and doing this and that in tension and frustration, a thought whispered in my mind saying "You old man! That Windows XP Pro was working for you from 2005 onwards as was Windows 98 2E from 1999 and that good old Windows 95 from 1996 with you. You did not upgrade from Windows XP SP3 to Vista because Vista was altogether another kettle of fish that you found tough to handle! Now in mid 2012 your old OS has gone berserk and you are raising SOS calls? Why do you not go to New Delhi's Microsoft resellers M/s Flipcart.com and buy a Windows 2007 Professional OEM 32 Bit pack?" And so I have done today and after backing up my documents and gathering my desktop motherboard's (Intel DG965RY with 8GB DDR2 Memeory and Pentium Dual Core 3.00 GHz processor) hardware drivers along with the Drivers CD and the Cd for the ATI Radeon 2GB DDR PCI Express Graphics Plug in Card, I have an hour ago installed my Windows 2007 Professional 32Bit at a cost of Rupees Ten thousand Seven Hundered and Ninety only, (Pirated Win 2007 sells for as low as Rupees One Hundred only but I have never since DOS 6.22+Win 3.1 days used pirated software) on my 6 year old self assembled desktop and boy was that fast! It took half the time than that of the Windows XP and barring the Intel Mainboard Drivers did not even bother to ask me for even my ATI Radeon Graphic Card!
All said and done it was agood riddance. All that I have to do is get familiar with the ropes and this OS unlike the Vista has certain similarity to the XP! Well at 55 years of age when you dont want to accept changes, I have done it. It took me two months to master the XP from the Win 98. It may take a month more. I am not afraid.
I thank you and Kees once again for your kindness.
Regards.
CA, Shyamal Mitra
New Delhi, India.