Comment 1638 for bug 1

Towards Resolving Bug 1: Microsoft Has A Majority Marketshare -- Presenting A Template As An RFC

Allow me to submit the following document I just completed as part of fixing a friend's XP-HE laptop for give-away to someone else as an informal RFC that may be refined into a tool to help this bug finally get resolved. The new owner will be getting this in hardcopy with the disks it mentions when he picks it up. It is meant to be viewed in a fixed font.

If you believe deploying something like it the next time you return a Microsoft system someone has begged you to fix, please, change it as needed and pass it on without attribution--make it as personally composed for the recipient as you can for the best chance of turning on the light within.

Some details have been converted into _Template_Fields_ in this version to maintain the confidentiality of the original as well as help you tailor it for your not-quite-ready-for-prime-time sysadmin.

Let the ideas for improving it come forth.