🚀 go-pugleaf

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.