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Originally posted by Zombie9920:
I build my own systems(I choose my own configuration), I do all of the tweaking to my system, etc. Simply put, Windows does not give out any problems *if* you know what you are doing with your comp.
Me too. I build my own computers, and yet I still get BSOD's no matter how much tweaking I do. Even failsafe tweaking gets me nowhere.
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Originally posted by Zombie9920:
Other causes of system instability are having poorly coded apps installed on your OS(god knows there are alot of poorly written apps for Win32).
Yes there are! Some of which are: Internet Explorer, Office (Any Version), The whole OS, Windows Media Player (Something is seriously wrong with this app. It crashes sooo many damn times) MSN Messenger which is a simple messinger app that eats up 15 MB RAM. Mac OS 8.6 doesn't even use that much...
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Originally posted by Zombie9920:
you messed with the heart of your OS(like the registry in Windows) and screwed something up, you are using un-certified drivers, etc.
WHQL did NOTHING at all to help with drivers. In fact, it actually slows the frequency of driver revisions. As for the registry, it needs to clean itself up. About 25% of it is hexidecimal garbage space-wasting, which helps lead to crashes.
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Originally posted by Zombie9920:
Most of the time it isn't the OS'es fault that the user doesn't know what he/she is doing.
Well if Windows crashes that often, and it is user error, then idiots must FLOCK to Windows.
And anyone with MS Paint, Fireworks, Photoshop ETC could have faked an uptime counter like that. [This may really be pushing it, but ALL of the numbers in the uptime count are elsewhere on the bar. He could have easily copied and pasted the #s there.]
[ August 07, 2002: Message edited by: Dustin ]