Re: Microsoft making vendors remove drivers




Jeff Liebermann wrote:

Another anecdote from the time was my customer from hell. I'll spare
you the details. She constantly complained that her Windoze 3.1
machine was crashing. My office machine was similar and totally
stable, so I just traded machines. I found no problems using her
machine in my office, but she continued to see stability problems with
my known good machine. I don't know what she was doing to cause
problem. Maybe her computer is situated over a tiny black hole that
sucks in bits. Dunno.

One time I was testing an in-house program and it would crash hard
every time I selected a block of text with a mouse left click and
hold/drag. Never when the developer tried it, always when I did. He
suspected that it was a configuration difference, so I walked over
to his PC, selected a block of text, and crashed the program.
Rather amazed, he went over to my PC and selected a block of text
without crshing it. Then I tried and it crashed as usual.

(Feel free to stop reading now and guess why)
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He starting at the top left corner to create the the selection
box, while I was starting from the bottom right corner. :(



It won't last. Ever notice that XP takes more and more time to boot
as it gets older? I've been forced into doing some rather painful
reinstalls from scratch (usually on a new hard disk) to recover. None
of the speed improvement and registry cleanup utilities have done
anything beyond minor improvements.

Use XXCopy, Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image to save a snapshot
of a fresh install. It's the Universal Windows Repair Method.


--
Guy Macon
<http://www.GuyMacon.com/>

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