Revolution unbooted

[Jon]

Mark:

My only point was that "eventually" is measured in weeks here, not in 
hours or days. With Win 98, it was often measured in minutes.

:)

Jon


Mark Wieder wrote:

>Jon, Chipp-
>
>Monday, July 18, 2005, 4:11:17 PM, you wrote:
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>CW> I concur with Jon. I regularly use 3 separate Windows XP machines, and
>CW> multiple programs on each and never find the NEED TO reboot them, other
>CW> than for service patches and app installs.
>
>The *need* to reboot them is subtler than that. Windows is a set of
>multi-level interdependent drivers and libraries that is dynamically
>rebuilt each time Windows reboots. My rule of thumb when making system
>changes is to reboot three times - each successive boot builds on the
>previous dependency model. Things can get a bit tenuous if Windows
>isn't allowed to reassure itself every so often about what's holding
>it up. Michael Swaine had a good writeup of the process in an article
>a while back called "House of Cards", but I can't find a reference to
>it at the moment.
>
>Granted my rebooting every day my be a bit compulsive, but I figure
>it's a good habit to get into and this ensures that it gets done.
>
>Jon - your "eventually something becomes unstable" is *exactly* what
>I'm talking about.
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