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On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:40:10 -0800 (PST), gabydewilde
<fototour@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Dec 21, 6:29�pm, Lookout <mrLook...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:50:20 -0500, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> wrote:
>> >Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
>> >> "philo" <ph...@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.
>
>Thats just great!
>
>Does it also clean up unused desktop icons? </sarkasm>

It looks for registry entries that lead to dead ends and deletes them.
Then you use the hard drive cleaner to look for files that don't have
registry entries that apply to them. That eliminates most invalid
entries and files. No program is perfect but those I do help swear by
it after having problems for years now they don't have the same
problems.