Re: [SLUG] Re: Microsoft Independence

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 10:52:18 EDT


Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
>
> >
> > > The thing I find humorous about this conversation is that I've *never*
> > > been able to kill a print job under Windows.
>
> I have never had a problem with this in Windows. You simply unplug the damn
> thing and when it re-boots it allows you to kill the print job.
> Alternate you can use MS approach but 1/2 the time it doesn't work.
> Another sure approach is to use a big hammer on the computer.

You know... MS should really DOCUMENT these procedures. I've been doing
it wrong this whole time by trying to open up icons and clicking
"Cancel" commands and stuff like that.

Maybe if they just included a big hammer *right in the box* people would
be able to get Windows to work correctly more often.

:)

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