>>On the heels of a game update rendering XP users' machines unbootable:
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>>http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/06/1312254&tid=206
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>What was the game? (I have a web filter so I can not access that page)
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>I guess is EVE-Online, a game I play but fortunately for me I did not install the update immediately, I just did it yesterday and the problem was fixed, but still do not understand why someone will name a file boot.ini, is just asking for trouble!
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Remember the old DOS days when software installed its own copy of AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS?

You'd think we might have learned a little bit since then.