I've been doing a lot of tinkering this week, and finally deep-sixed the earlier operating system (it came with ME) on my HP computer that was running with a dual platform. Now I'm using Win2000 alone (which is of course not the most up-to-date, but is very powerful). I cringe every time I get ready to do one of these operations, because so many things can go wrong. I had to do this because the ME side wouldn't boot at all, it was where some things resided that had to be moved (Partition Magic and Boot Magic) and until I killed it off I couldn't install them on Win2000 to reconfigure how the computer started. I also had to perform extra stuff (choosing the partition to use) or let it take a full minute to run the scripts by itself when I booted up. But I always knew what it was doing. I felt I had to fix this problem, and I have the disks that came with the computer in case I want to backup Win2000 then reinstall ME and put in the partitions again, etc. So far, it all worked out well. All of this came after a day of trying to figure out what system to use to back up this computer. I realized that the ME side was going to mess up a backup via NERO (because it would also backup the excess baggage of that non-functioning partition with the ME on it).
What is this all leading up to? If you have an older system and it still works, don't worry about that little Autoexec Bat script. There's a saying that's big down here in Texas, but applies anyplace else I've lived also: