Hi She Cat - What you expressed in one sentence is exactly what I feel like many times. I know its the crummy Windo$e OS. And it is a real pain. My wife knows next to nothing about computers and doesn't want to and I can't blame her 'cause they can be horribly frustrating. But I have developed a lot more patience with them over the years. I haven't bashed one in a fairly long time, probably almost two years now. She now has her own computer which she reads emails on, browses the web and writes a few things and thats it. The system is acting stable. But when it does do something strange I'm the go to guy. I have learned to take the deep breath and not fling the ****ing thing through the window, but that has come at a cost. Destroying something like a computer is a solution . . . not the best one probably, 'cause then I have to tell my wife, then shell out the several grand to get a new one.


But as long as The Doze has 80% of the OS business locked up, I'm gonna deal with it.


Ultimately, I'm going to a Mac workstation. It will eliminate a lot of the games I like, and limit the selection a bit, but the good news is a great increase in system stability.


I just don't understand why The Dose OS manages to maintain such a large share of the OS market. It is just such a badly built system. The Unix/Linux/Mac OS just don't have these kind of problems unless ya get into the guts and start messing with stuff that ya just ought not to mess with. Like defrag . . . there is no defrag on Unix/Linix/Mac OS because the system is designed to optimize. Anyway, ****ing Micro$oft and Bill Gates . . . blow'em to bloody hell I say, eh.