Re: Now I Understand

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From: jmfbahciv
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:48

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Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
> 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.

You need to work on the procedures which you use to backup your computer
system.

<snip>

/BAH

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