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In article <1d2937t.qmz4fp1mfbe6gN@p50.nas2.is2.u-net.net>,
real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar (Rebecca and wrote:

>From: Rebecca and Rowland
>Organization: The Pietertje Geeltje van der Sluis fan club

Never heard of him (?)


>> What hassle?
>
>A man with no third-party extensions, obviously...

In my dreams mate. I have 4 rows of extensions at startup.

>> I've changed from 7.5.2 with every update through to 8.0, I
>> can't say that there have been any major hassles at all, except that 7.6.1
>> and 8.0 have crashed a whole lot less than the rest........
>
>Well, I went from 7.1 to 7.6, and it took *ages* to re-install clean
>copies of all the various third-party extensions and control panels I
>use, get newer versions (or different extensions in the case of those
>that broke and didn't have newer versions available), clean out all the
>pointless crap that Apple's terminally hopeless installer had dumped in
>my System folder, and so on.

This simply hasn't happened in my experience, the only thing that I
remember breaking was Popup Folder under OS 8.

 I never used crap like After Dark, Greg's Buttons, Now Utilities etc etc
so maybe that's how I avoided most of the hassles you mention.

As far as Apple installers go, I tend to do custom installs whenever
possible to avoid the problems you mention, Conflict Catcher is handy for
dumping useless stuff from just one menu as well. 

Overall I don't think that any update to a System has taken more than half
an hour.



Gordon


One of these days I'm going to think of a decent sig line