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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (21593)	10/21/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Respond to of 64865

The 30+ hours consisted of: 1 reinstall, reapply service pack 4, unable to reboot again (so it wasn't anything I did wrong), 1 reinstall again, apply service pack 3, reinstall software, reapply service pack 3, reconfigure software and tune. Why didn't I have a backup? Well we use Seagate Backup Exec on NT (looks nice, runs like shit). It can't backup our proxy machine without crashing NT, and thus the proxy machine had no backups. Again, Microsoft reliability at work. Not what I want from a critical corporate resource like the proxy machine (which controls all access to the Internet, email web browsing etc). This machine is first in line for an NT-obotomy and upgrade to Linux. Second in line is our backups machine. P.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (21593)	10/21/1999 2:36:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

-- and guess what the "solution" was?... I don't feel like doing the research to find it right now, but there was a really priceless column by one of the ZD press regular droids, maybe Jesse Berst, within the last year or two in PC Mag. Topic: every once in a while it's a good idea to reinstall Windows to kind of clean it up. If you don't, things just get too cruddy after you install and uninstall all those apps for a long time. Your system integrity goes to pot. Better to do a prophylactic reinstall than watch a long slow degradation. No recriminations against MSFT, no real complaints, just a helpful tip from a friendly technical expert. I actually thought it was one of the most amazing things I had ever read outside Weekly World News. This was in effect a Microsoft employee talking. And we get James on this thread saying "Microsoft makes the best this and the best that." It's all just proof of how people are actually hypnotized. It's like smog and similar pollution: people are surrounded by garbage and don't really know it's there, except for once in a while. Microsoft has trained them. They have lowered the bar. In my decades of working with Unix, I have never once heard anybody recommend a preventative re-install. Regards, --QS