> Or running a Realtek 8026 network card.. (explore this guy's page)
> Can we give this guy an honorary membership?

He has my sympathy - having just gone through much the same thing last week
with my Win PC (installing an additional HDD, of all things).

"Windows has found unknown hardware"
No you haven't.
"Windows is now determining the best driver to install that will really
screw up your graphics card"
Argh.

Or "Windows is now rebooting because you dared to meddle with your network
settings"

I *never* have this sort of trouble on my Linux boxes!

Peter

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