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"David McNerney" <davberk99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you sir, you have restored my faith in Usenet. Worked like a
> charm. And I learned something about Windows into the bargain.
>

You're very welcome.  Most of these fixes work most of the time, but I must
give Microsoft a little bit of credit (am I crazy?) for finally releasing a
home-user OS that doesn't crap in its pants when you connect a 'Japanese'
peripheral.  Scanners are still a little touchy - getting rid of redundant
Japanese TWAIN drivers is a bit of a headache - fortunately EPSON (my
preferred printer/scanner combo) seem happy to release the same model
scanners worldwide (just with different names) so it's just a matter of
shooting over to Epson USA or UK and downloading the corresponding English
drivers.

XP may well be a memory/space/resource hungry beast but when you can locally
pick up 512k RAM for 4000yen, 120gig hard disks for 12000 yen it's easy and
cost effective to keep your machine pumped and primed.  Selling your old
hardware on Yahoo Auctions Japan is also a piece of cake.

jonathan