🚀 go-pugleaf

Lookout wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:50:20 -0500, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> wrote:
> 
>> Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
>>> "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in
>>> news:WbmdnV8eb4a2HdDUnZ2dnUVZ_gKdnZ2d@ntd.net: 
>>>
>>>> "Bluuuue Rajah" <Bluuuuue@Rajah.> wrote in message
>>>> news:Xns9B7AB9C822192fdgdfjhsrtg@207.115.17.102...
>>>>> Everybody rightly criticizes Micro$tiff for selling a crappy OS, and
>>>>> Linux is obviuosly better, if you have the time and the expertise to
>>>>> use in it, but until this week I didn't understand exaclty why
>>>>> Windows is such a POS.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I had to uninstall the Google toolbar because Google installed
>>>>> an update tht I didn't ask for, which overrode IE5's ctrl-f command,
>>>>> the reason beame clear.  Windows' install/uninstall method causes
>>>>> bugs to accumulate, if programs are not ununstalled in precise the
>>>>> reverse order of which they were installed.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that terrible method of saving old copies of system
>>>>> files, like .ini files, as backups, to be restored when software is
>>>>> uninstalled.  So the more apps you uninstall, out of order, the
>>>>> buggier your system becomes, until you finally have to reinstall the
>>>>> OS. 
>>>>>
>>>>> Linux apparently doesn't have anything resembling this problem, which
>>>>> makes me wonder, how did the Linux designers (Torvald?) handle this
>>>>> problem, and can we learn anything from their solution to help
>>>>> minimize the problem with Windows?
>>>>>
>>>>> Your thoughts?
>>>> I've been using Linux almost as long as I've been using Windows.
>>>>
>>>> Linux is not immune from it's own problems...
>>>> and unless one is very familiar with Linux...the problems can
>>>> sometimes be harder to sort out.
>>>>
>>>> That said, with a little bit of common sense, Windows should not
>>>> require a re-install.
>>>> I run mainly Win2k and XP and they have both been running 99% +
>>>> trouble free for *many* years.
>>> You're living in a fantasy world.  Everybody knows that Windows slowly 
>>> accumulates bugs.  They've known almost from day one, when people 
>>> started griping about what a POS it was.
>> Every OS accumulates bugs.  That's reality, son.
>>
>> /BHA
> 
> Not if your regularly use a registry cleaner. I use FixIt Utilities
> and to delete invalid or no longer need registry entries and files. 

Doesn't matter.  The original sources and their fixes are not on
your computer.

Look.  The guy needs a backup stragegy for his computer system(s).
Since one of them got hosed, he needed to be able to drop back
to a computer system state that was known to not be broken.

Complaining about update processes isn't going to solve his
problem because the mess will happen again.

/BAH