Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:14:37 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> Eli Z shares a somewhat different view, he
> says that windoze is stable so long as you maintain the DLL integerity,
> and don't allow apps with those "superb" installers to overite dll's and
> replace them with older version and all that mess to happen.

That's right.  The system where I'm typing this is running for more
than two weeks without being shut down and no crashes.  See section
8.15 of the FAQ for more about this.

> That view is sound (and I agree to soem extent on it) but it doesn't
> explain things like how a "virgin" version of windows milennium was unable
> to startup even on it's launch day!

That's easy: any software whose version number ends with a ".0" is
unstable, but marketing types will never learn that...

> But you have to admit it after say 6 months of installing and uninstalling
> software the fscking BSODS get annoying...

On Windows 98, you can use the System File Checker utility to see the
sheer volume of this mess: it shows you every system file that was
replaced since the installation.