At work I was running Win95 and crashing about once or twice a week. I had to upgrade to Win98SE because the HP CD burner required USB support. While that burning was doing it's job I couldn't use the computer for anything else. Period. Crashing went from once or twice per week to once or twice per day. I was asked a couple of days ago to install Win2000 as a test bed, since my 20 inhouse software packages are the biggest in the dept and really exercise the workstation. The first install failed because W2K ignores your request for a clean install if it sees an existing WinXX installation. It creates a dual boot mode. When you tell it to 'C'onvert to NTFS it does so, but keeps the software on the disk (and the various apps run!). But, when you choose the "Windows" dual boot option you get a very pretty BSOD and total hangup. (Win95 can run on an NTFS partition.) Time to reinstall. This time I boot a Win95 floppy and run FDISK to destory the existing partions. Then W2K goes on nicely. When I installed the Adeptic CD Lite software I got a BSOD on reboot (those annoying incessant reboots -- $)(#&$(&$(#*^^%@#&) ---). Had to run the save made and uninstall. Then, I powered down the PC and took out the HP ScanJet 3P scsi card which W2K was blind to. When I booted back up Win2K came ok. I began boxing up the scanner when all of a sudden, on its own, W2K performed an infamous Stealth Phantom Reboot. Windows Explorer sometimes tangles itself up in knots, dies, and W2K kills the remains. Internet Explorer still feels its ok to download only a few KB of any file you choose to download (So I installed NS 4.75 so I could get a reliable download). Typical for the first two days. The only good thing I see about W2K is that NotePad can now handle files larger than 64KB. I read in a 6.4MB text file this morning. All in all, my SuSE 7.0 is much better than W2K. In fact, I haven't had a crash on any of my SuSE installations since 5.3. I may start turning my PC off when I am not using it, however, to conserve energy. JLK On Thursday 08 February 2001 13:27, Michael wrote:
Indeed Windows is a pain. Each of our brand new computers came w/ it forcing us to upgrade all Windows software on the machines we left it on as well as upgrading the OS and software of all other Windows machines. Probably over $1000 per machine. Myself I was all for replacing Windows w/ Linux but there are still some programs the sales staff uses that we've yet to duplicate so we're stuck with Windows in a few places for the time being. My only comfort is that we'll never have to upgrade again as by the next version we'll have it all running on Linux and most of it from any web browser. :)