Windows woes

[Aarti_pl]

In article <e0dmeo$2cmk$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...

>Morals of the story:
>
>1) Keep a crib sheet of all the settings, passwords, serial numbers, 
>registration follderalls, etc.
>
>2) If you're going to provide an update program, fer cryin out loud, make it 
>a monolithic program that doesn't depend on everything else in the OS 
>working perfectly. After all, when you need it, it's probably because the 
>rest of the system isn't right. And if the update program itself is 
>corrupted, then tech support can just send you a new one.
>
>3) If you're writing an app, don't require it to be reinstalled if Windows 
>is reinstalled. DM programs don't need to be. Store your configuration in 
>some text file that can be saved/restored. Please!
>
>4) If you're going to need to muck about with the system registry, do it 
>like Quicken does. Quicken has a menu item "Backup" which, amazingly enough, 
>backs up all its settings and crud to a file you specify. Then, I reinstall 
>Quicken from the CD, hit "Restore" and give the file name, and it fixes 
>itself. Quicken is full of horrible design choices, but at least they got 
>that right. No other app I've used does that.
>
>5) Never, ever install anything with DRM on it on your work computer. DRM 
>often involves rootkits, installing new drivers that destabilize your 
>system, etc. This includes most game software. Use a separate computer for 
>DRM, one that you won't mind regularly reinstalling Windows on.
>
>There, I feel better now <g>. 
>
>

6. Change your main system to Linux :-)

After hard time with configuring everything (in www.kubuntu.org) I don't miss
windows any more :-)

BR
Marcin Kuszczak