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Randy Whittle wrote: > Speaking of which...for those of you who have upgraded to Win '95 > on your 'Pads (I'm using a 750C), what have you done with/about your > non-'95-native utilities like the ThinkPad features, Battery monitor, etc.? > Is there updated ThinkPad utilities for Win '95? I've been running Win95 on my 755cx since the end of August. Most of the apps I use are Win3.1 apps -- Lotus SmartSuite, Corel 4 (draw/photopaint), etc. The thinkpad utilities work fine -- I did update the utilities with the newer utilities disk from ftp.pc.ibm.com, but I don't think they're Win95 specific. Everything works just fine -- even stuff like the 16-bit Twain driver for my Primax ColorMobileOffice hand scanner. With the MWave 2.0 update and the updated FaxWorks, even the sound/modem/fax stuff works great. Basically, Win95 offered me two key advantages that make life much easier than if I were running Win3.1 or Warp. Networking & the Briefcase "object" Under Win95, Networking is pretty close to "hot-swappable". I don't have to reboot the 'pad to connect or disconnect from my home network. Whether I last booted on or off the net, just slip in the pcmcia ethernet card and everything's there -- network printer, drives mapped from my desktop system, whatever. When I need to take the 'pad with me, I just hit a menu selection and the thing unloads/disconnects all the networking; then remove the ethernet card, close the 'pad, and go -- no need to reboot. If I print to a networked printer while away from the net, (I let my desktop system do the spooling) the print job will be placed in the local spool area. When I connect back to the network, a window pops up asking if I want to print the jobs then -- this allows me to print stuff I'm working on when I'm working on it -- I don't have to remember later on which files I wanted to print out. The Briefcase, while it could use some work, is still very useful. I keep all my work under a particular directory, which is kept in the "Briefcase". Selecting "update" from a menu causes the 'pad to compare its copy of the directory tree to the copy stored on my desktop system -- updating everything that's changed on one or the other. Not only do I then have a consistant set of files on the two machines, but it also serves as a crude means of backing up the really important stuff on the 'pad. Now, this is just why *I* put Win95 on both my systems; it offered some nice solutions for my specific needs. If you don't do any networking and are happy with what you have, I'm not sure there's a strong argument for upgrading now. Also -- I have 24 meg of RAM in my 755cx -- it'd probably be a bit different if I were at 8 meg or less. Win95's sweet spot seems to be at around 12 meg. -- Lew Jansen Systems Manager, High Energy Physics Theory lrj@hepth.cornell.edu 233 Newman Lab, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853