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  • A Asgard25

    How quickly from the time you installed Windows could to get it to break or give errors( from runtime to registry ) ?, excluding really dumb stuff like deleting system32 and of course Vista, cause that was instant :laugh: Include which windows you where using.

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    CPallini
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    On my old laptop, installing Ubuntu over the pre-installed WinXP made the trick immediately.

    THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?! -- C++ FQA Lite

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      Windows 7 After playing The Sims 3 for 2 Hours -> Blue Screen. Works nearly every time :-\

      if(this.signature != "") { MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature); } else { MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found"); }

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      glennPattonWork3
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      Are you sure it's not a safety thing, A friend of mine once had to go to casualty because of badly swelled arm after 4 hours straight of 'Age of Empires' :)

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        Are you sure it's not a safety thing, A friend of mine once had to go to casualty because of badly swelled arm after 4 hours straight of 'Age of Empires' :)

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        Agent__007
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        glennPattonPUB wrote:

        after 4 hours straight of 'Age of Empires'

        I used to do that all the time! Your friend must be extremely delicate.. :laugh:

        Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!

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          On my old laptop, installing Ubuntu over the pre-installed WinXP made the trick immediately.

          THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?! -- C++ FQA Lite

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          Keith Barrow
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          *nix FTW. A mate of mine was one of the tech support bods at Edinbugh Uni, there was a server there that had been running over 10 years straight (1992 -2002, when my mate left). No one knew what it was and they were too scared to switch it off. Total sum maintenance - one scary day when they took the side off to vacuum out the accumulated dust in case it became a fire hazard.

          Alberto Brandolini:

          The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

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          • A Asgard25

            How quickly from the time you installed Windows could to get it to break or give errors( from runtime to registry ) ?, excluding really dumb stuff like deleting system32 and of course Vista, cause that was instant :laugh: Include which windows you where using.

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            Lost User
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            Install only Windows, no other crap. Try again, compare the results.

            Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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            • A Asgard25

              How quickly from the time you installed Windows could to get it to break or give errors( from runtime to registry ) ?, excluding really dumb stuff like deleting system32 and of course Vista, cause that was instant :laugh: Include which windows you where using.

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              SoMad
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              I am not sure about Windows, but I once bought a glass top coffee table (not exactly like this[^], but close). I brought it home, set it up and wanted to vacuum around the table. The vacuum cleaner hit one of the table legs and the glass plate closest to the floor shattered :sigh: Soren Madsen

              "When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty

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                I am not sure about Windows, but I once bought a glass top coffee table (not exactly like this[^], but close). I brought it home, set it up and wanted to vacuum around the table. The vacuum cleaner hit one of the table legs and the glass plate closest to the floor shattered :sigh: Soren Madsen

                "When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty

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                Simon ORiordan from UK
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                Ah, yes. The 'Broken Windows' fallacy. Actually, if it stops breaking, their profits should decline if the fallacy is in fact true. :laugh:

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                • A Agent__007

                  glennPattonPUB wrote:

                  after 4 hours straight of 'Age of Empires'

                  I used to do that all the time! Your friend must be extremely delicate.. :laugh:

                  Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!

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                  glennPattonWork3
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                  Naah, just a weirdo!

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                  • A Asgard25

                    How quickly from the time you installed Windows could to get it to break or give errors( from runtime to registry ) ?, excluding really dumb stuff like deleting system32 and of course Vista, cause that was instant :laugh: Include which windows you where using.

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                    Rob Philpott
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                    Historically, this has virtually always been down to badly behaved drivers, something that MS can't do anything about. (Apart from write their own) If you create a computer that you can plug practically anything into and get 3rd parties to write crap drivers which operate in Kernal mode it's what happens. Alternative is Apple - Computers for Airheads™.

                    Regards, Rob Philpott.

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                    • A Asgard25

                      How quickly from the time you installed Windows could to get it to break or give errors( from runtime to registry ) ?, excluding really dumb stuff like deleting system32 and of course Vista, cause that was instant :laugh: Include which windows you where using.

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                      Joan M
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                      We use windows as the operating systems of our machines, then we install a software that enables the computer as a machine controller and we use Visual C++ to create the GUI programs that machine operators use. I've been using this for 16 years continuously and never, and I mean never I've seen a problem with that. Windows works well unless you start installing tons of extra software there.

                      [www.tamautomation.com] | Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing. [YouTube channel]

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                      • A Asgard25

                        How quickly from the time you installed Windows could to get it to break or give errors( from runtime to registry ) ?, excluding really dumb stuff like deleting system32 and of course Vista, cause that was instant :laugh: Include which windows you where using.

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                        Nagy Vilmos
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                        Donna Read really broke the windows and there was no need for any FX.

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                        • A Asgard25

                          How quickly from the time you installed Windows could to get it to break or give errors( from runtime to registry ) ?, excluding really dumb stuff like deleting system32 and of course Vista, cause that was instant :laugh: Include which windows you where using.

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                          Member 4194593
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                          42 Dave.

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                          • A Asgard25

                            How quickly from the time you installed Windows could to get it to break or give errors( from runtime to registry ) ?, excluding really dumb stuff like deleting system32 and of course Vista, cause that was instant :laugh: Include which windows you where using.

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                            Joe Woodbury
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                            My dad did it in a day. He got a new system, don't remember which version. I told him to copy the "Pictures", "Music" and "Documents" separately from his old system to their respective folders on the new system. He looked at that and thought that it would be more efficient to just copy the entire user folder over, which he did, accepting all the security prompts. It rendered his system barely operable. I told him he'd messed up his system and to do a full factory restore. He called Dell. They told him to do a full factory restore. Afterward, he sent me a very sheepish mea culpa. Mind you, my father has a PhD in nuclear physics and built a computer for testing purposes back in the 1980s.

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