🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:56:24 -0400, Tim O <timo56@REMOVEhotmail.com>
wrote:

>On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:49:57 -0700, Loren Pechtel
><lorenpechtel@hotmail.invalid.com> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:29:52 -0400, Tim O <timo56@REMOVEhotmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>I don't understand why someone would need to reinstall 3 times in that
>>>time period unless they're a shithead that deserves to deal with phone
>>>support.
>>
>>I'm on my third install of Windows in the last 6 months or so.  Full
>>installs, not repair.  It has caused me to have to contact one place
>>to get additional activations.
>
>I don't want to stray too far off the point, but what exactly are you
>doing to your machine that requires that? It used to be at least once
>a year with Windows 98, but since 2000 came out, the number of times
>I've needed to reformat and reinstall the OS can be counted on one
>hand. Thats maintaining about 5 machines, too.
>
>My old gaming rig, a 3ghz Athlon XP became my wifes PC when I
>upgraded. That computer has a 4 year old install of XP thats still
>going fine.

I haven't done anything oddball that I'm aware of.

One was a barf during a motherboard replacement--after the repair
install Windows decided it was running on drive E, one was Windows
deciding that if I pressed a key at the login prompt that it was no
longer going to act upon the keyboard or mouse.  (It was *NOT*
hung--wait and the screen saver kicked in.  Move the mouse and it
restored--but the mouse pointer didn't move.)