On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:49:55 +0100, Markus Becker
<mar### [at] studentuni-siegende> wrote:

>Peter Popov wrote:
>> 
>> NT? No Thanks! The one and only time I had that beast on my machine it
>> successfully killed more than a month's work in terms of term
>> projects, lab reports, etc. I am not installing this thing on my life!
>
>Huh? I installed NT (I think) three years ago, after my Win95 had
>destroyed itself for the umpteenth time. I did _one_ (1!) reinstall
>during that period.
>
>Markus

For no apparent reason NT started believing it was a remote
installation or something and kept trying to connect to itself. The
result was that it took 30 min to display the logon screen, then about
2 minutes for each icon on the desktop, another 15 min. after
ctrl-alt-del to display the task manager, and it took it ~10 more
minutes after I tried to close the network server to inform me that
"The server is too busy to complete the requested task". For obvious
reasons I had to reformat the hard drive (my BIOS did not support
CD-Rom boot) and lose all work from the last month or so. I did not
lose any POV or 2D artwork because this happened at the end of the
semester and I was too busy with school work, but I did lose all term
projects, lab reports etc. for that semester. Cost me a week of
insomnia (a total of ~10 hr of sleep in 7 days) and an an arhythmia as
a result from that. Windows NT? No Thanks.


Peter Popov
pet### [at] usanet
ICQ: 15002700

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