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

To: brian z who wrote (63218)	11/21/2001 3:05:36 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Respond to of 74651

Using signed drivers? If not, why not?

To: brian z who wrote (63218)	11/21/2001 6:16:28 PM
From: Jordan A. Sheridan	Respond to of 74651

Brian; If XP is crashing every day, I would strongly suggest checking that you are using as many signed drivers as possible. If you need a hand checking them out, send me a PM, I;d be glad to help. For the record, I have had XP crash (bluescreen, lockup, etc) once since Beta 1, and it was due to an unsigned driver. JS

To: brian z who wrote (63218)	11/21/2001 6:48:11 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Your situation is very typical: Your Windows is unstable, and even if you might fix some of it (like replacing drivers etc.), the solution is typically to reinstall. If that doesn't help, you will probably format your harddisk and install from scratch. If you don't have installation media, you suddenly depend on your vendor. And if you have installation media, and you install from scratch, and everything works, you have lost all your old settings from the registry. This scenario is known by virtually all Windows users. The competition doesn't waste your time like that.