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> > Does anyone know where the Windows 95 hardware devices are kept.
>
> Usually in the case. Some are outside the case.

Haha. I see you haven't lost your comic ability.

> > To use my scanner, I have to disable my network card. I can't
> > seem to use the both together. I've had long discussions with
> > people in both NGs, but I can't work the problem out.
>
> Did you actually try what was suggested ?  Particularly removing something
> that uses an IRQ and seeing if it would allocate the resources to both of
> those in THAT situation so you can use them both at the same time.

No because I need everything else.

> > So the best I can do is disable either one or
> > the other when I need to use one or the other.
>
> Bet its possible to end up with a better solution than that.

I'm sure it is, but I can't envisage one.

> > I was thinking that if values were stored in a registry, I could
> > just make a .reg file and that could change values easily.
>
> Its more complicated than that because Win9x attempts to
> detect what is present at boot time, mainly to cover the situation
> where some stuff may not be powered up at boot time etc.

Yeah, thought that may be the case.

> And you dont need to use .reg files to achieve what you want to do, there is
> a hardware profiles system in the device manager which does what you want.

Ah, so that's what that does.

> If you dont want to do that, use the hardware profiles.

So do I do that through device manager, properties, exists in all properties
(unchecking the box)?

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