Zebra Code wrote:

lets talk about that. you hadnt five happy years with w2k, had you

sofar the ratio of 'soft crashes' is some like 5:1, vista:w2k.

with win2000 i could set a dsl shared connection up for weeks with not a
crash whatsoever.
with vista, until i set up a router, the win2000 client machine browsed
happily, while this vista one had unexpected and frequent blank spots
every day in all its internet connections.

i admit that w2k got to sp4, though. and i can be patient and sit by the
river until i see an sp floating by

ciao, ZC

No, I didn't have 5 years with w2k, but I had six years with XP. The
reason I quit XP was that I tired of doing monthly wash & wipes. I'm now
in month 8 with Vista, and I've forgotten what blue looks like. Not one
crash, zero bsod's, lots of speed with 3 gigs of ram. I'm a happy camper
with Vista. FWIW, I remember Win3.0 wouldn't add 2+2 without a crash.

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Dave T.

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