No - it's a question. Just wondering. I mean - I'd expect that *you'd* do clean install, run SpinRite, keep up with all patches, MT the \\temp periodically and - keep your own log of ap loading order and other Dll-Hell salves (or does 2K at last allow loading into mem of more than One library - and keep track of associations? and jail offending?)

I'd also imagine that you immediately ghosted (or equiv. image) your clean install, keep notes on config of aps, vacuum clean the Registry with whatever corrective utils. are out there (?)

Now what about the rest - ghost? whodat? .dlls - huh? (OK the patches remain Everyone's problem, to be smart enough to seek and use)

Still.. when (not if) you do find that combo of ap order + commands which trashes your 2K highly transient marvel - (what? another 6 mos, 12? before rendered er *unsupported*; better Upgrade):

It's RRR - and without ghost et al (how many do not have such, today?) - you Are Up a Creek for hours and hours, with notes (if you kept them) of everything you altered since install. On *your time* or some company's time. How long to fix an X- crash? Betcha it Ain't RRR ;-)

So if you want to compare these 'relatively ~~ stabilities' and blithely elide the quite different consequences of unfixability, not to mention the other ongoing costs after the steep purchase cost:

That massive hardware just to walk - the insufferable Dumbed-down "we know you didn't Really want to move that file - so we put in a link" BS over and over and on towards ---> web-wide proprietary brothers and sisters now being hatched.. (if DOJ fails to do duty, once again) - well..

Bon appetit y'all :-\ufffd




PS - I don't doubt for an instant your experience; what about normal peoples', if there is any hi confidence-level data (?)

Don't do games but know a couple who do. Offhand can't think of any task that would exercise so many interrupts, the bus, and all the peripherals - more. Unless maybe - if you could do all that - while compiling a new kernel too?
('Course ya don't get to to do that. ;-)

NO reinstall in 14 mos. OK. I'll be a bit more respectful of the oleaginous spawn of a despicable beast which sells relatives into slavery and leaves radioactive feces ... while fostering whininess as a speech impediment. To be fair.

Then too, the obvious question on finding out that someone competent deems ~ "yes, this sucker seems actually to work" is:











So.. What Took Them So Long ???

Besides the readily apparent cupidity, deliberate ploys as emerged from the DOJ e-mails, backward compatibility (the longest-running excuse of them all?) and just plain slothfulness (?)

(Did they in fact - throw that bug switch discovered when Alex mailed out the Nifty Doorways source code ? Come clean now. I mean.. when that switch IS finally uncovered...)





:-\ufffd