[ale] Stupid M$ windows crappy software %#$^*(

[Christopher R. Curzio]

Unless they need bleeding edge stuff and/or USB support, install Windows
95B. I find it infinitely more stable than 98, and most apps that run
under 98 will run under 95. 

I usually go so far as to say that Win95B is the best Windows OS from the
9x Series, with ME being the worst. Before I switched to Linux, I stuck
behind 95B pretty much universally. I once said that I needed to have at
least one of my machines running 98, so I decided to install it on my
laptop. However, I made a deal with myself, saying that the first time 98
crashed enough to annoy me, back I'd go to 95. 

98 crashed during the installation. Whee. 

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Thus Spake "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>:
13 Aug 2002 21:46:01 -0400


> Every once in a while, usually when it's time to pay bills, I will stoop
> to fixing a windows box for money, not love. Every time I swear I'll
> never do it again, ESPECIALLY for Win98 boxes. 
> 
> Scenario: 2 year old Dell, win98, antivirus software installed but not
> running (a common occurrence), critical M$ Windows update breaks EVERY
> ^@%#$ application on the box. Uninstall and reinstall fails to resolve
> breaks all over. Fdisk, format, reinstall win98 (and M$ complains about
> Linux being hard to install!!), reinstall all apps (thankfully all data
> was backed up by obsessive/compulsive user), reinstall anti-virus
> software (Norton) and bring it up to current. 
> 
> To bring Norton to current required 9 separate downloads each followed
> by 9 separate reboots (it's the windows way. Change your background
> image, reboot the box. And people PAY for this stuff?!) Finally it's all
> "current" and time to do the last task, make the emergency boot and
> repair disk. But the #&$% app will only crash the box! It will start to
> run, claim it's "initializing" then it blue screens and hard locks.
> Arrgg! It is a repeatable error, too. Follow the direction and the box
> will crash. 
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> 
> 

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