Biennial Crash Testing

[Holly Lisle]

> </lurk> [surfacing from lurkdom and pulling together his dissolved Crow
> molecules to speak once more]

Whoa!  Perry the Crow.  Thought you had vanished into the ether.  
Welcome back from lurkdom!
 
> Holly, have you used the update feature on Win 98 to "repair" some of
> the problems that Win98 was released with?

Yarrg!  Yes.  I have now, and now this cool program that I love, 
Gizmos, will not run.  Reinstalling Gizmos doesn't work, and of 
course there is no way to selectively uninstall (or even unselectively 
uninstall) the Windows updates to see which one crashed it.  I could 
go back and reinstall Windows, but then I'm back to having a flaky 
OS.
 
> critical updates.  It checks your system to see which you have not
> installed, then displays a list for you to choose from.  Then you
> download them and it does the install process for you.  It's pretty
> convenient, actually.  Now if only I could get the task scheduler to
> shut off like it's supposed to...

Yeah.  It was convenient, and not too terribly time-consuming.  Why 
can't they just make their stuff uninstallable like every reasonable 
company?

Holly
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