Kyle wrote:

how many of you ppl have to reformat and reinstall ur os every 3 months or
so....? I have used the gui verson of seti on a win 200 and xp pro and it
seems like every 3 monthes or so sys files start to disapear and things go
funkey. i have a firewall and anti-virous, both uptodate. anyone else suffer
from this?

On Linux, never.
On Win95C, never.
On WinXP, once in one year after corrupting the Registry...


Wild guesses:

Bad disk? Running _lots_ of apps? Bad shutdown? Network shares enabled?...


Computers _should_ work with 100% reliability. Its a shame our present day expectations for them are so very low.

Good luck,
Martin

Mandrake 9.2 GNU Linux