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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rudedog who wrote (63026)	11/14/2001 11:47:04 AM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"I can't claim to have been inconvenienced. " Certainly you could make up FUD about how you could be...

To: rudedog who wrote (63026)	11/14/2001 12:10:41 PM
From: Plaz	Respond to of 74651

As far as the "windows gets unstable" problem, WinME allows system restore points Windows XP does too. I had to use it last night as a matter of fact and it worked great. I installed a non-WHQL driver for my video card which caused my system to hang on boot. The next time I booted it went into safe mode. I launched the system recovery tool and it presented me with a little calendar control populated with restore points auto-recorded each time I installed something. I reverted my system back to before the driver install, rebooted, and everything was fine! Now THAT'S a reason to buy XP, IMHO... Plaz

To: rudedog who wrote (63026)	11/14/2001 12:48:46 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

You obviously don't have IBM 75GXP harddisks installed in your computers. They have a very high rate of failures. I think I have had a harddisk malfunction rate of 20% in 2001. Two Quantum IDE because of overheating (airconditioning broke), I guess three Quantum SCSI because they were worn up, and the rest simply because of IBM 75GXP problems. Windows XP is pretty good at handling driver problems. I talked with a guy today, whose XP computer crashed. After restart, XP told him that the crash was related to the NVIDIA driver and asked about removing the driver. This is quite cool, although it doesn't solve the problem that Windows XP crashes just because this driver is unstable. I know the system restore function very well - once it removed one days work from a computer I was using. Since then I have always disabled it when I use a computer that has this feature. It's amazing how small the difference often is between bugs and features.