BTW, long gone are those days that Windows machines would crash a lot. Today Windows 2000 almost never crashes in daily work. XP is 2000 based and is supposed to be more stable, so things in this respect don't look good for Linux.
Any why does a Windows machine crash? Had a user once ask me that and I didn't bs him as I really didn't know...
I have a W2k machine next to the machine I am writing this on. It had been running fine, but has now started just re-booting randomly - since I installed SP3? - I think so. SO what do I do about it, it has 4GBs of development information - all backed up, but only option is to wipe hard disk and start again. Check each stage and try and get back up to the same configuration. I have decided that I will have to wipe my nice 8.0 machine, install W2k on that - which will probably take all week to get back to the current set of applications, what with checking for what caused the problem. Then once I am running again, wipe the old machine and replace 8.0 ( perhaps 8.1 ). BUT I only expect that to take a few hours. My patience with Microsoft ran out a loonngg time a go <g> and now most of my customers agree and are moving over to Linux. -- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services