Originally posted by Gooshin WINDOWS DOES NOT CRASH, all it takes is a little diligence and a restraint from horseporn on behalf of the user.
if your windows crashes, that means you either have a hardware problem (either insufficient cooling or a defective component) or that you are a complete compunoob and have clicked on every single pop up that came your way, and have 20 different "anti-spyware" programs running in the background, filling your crevasse with more shit until your computer turns into a cesspool of corrupt files, malware and viruses.
This is wrong on so, so many levels. Completely factually incorrect and dead wrong. Windows crashes all the time, whether it crashes itself or applications. Installing/updating applications fills up the registry with so much crap, eventually stuff that contradicts itself gets stored in there and causes random crashes of certain applications. Viruses and other malware can infect Windows regardless of whether you're viewing horseporn or copying cookie recipes in notepad. The moment you're on the Internet, malware can infect a Windows computer, even one behind a firewall. (edit: no need to be browsing the web for this to happen) Microsoft's updates for Windows have been known to crash computers, take for instance the recent update that disabled XP computers for days. The only solution was to re-install Windows and not install that update again.
Don't go pretending Windows is a pristine and flawless collection of code. Like all operating systems, it's riddled with so many bugs and blatant mistakes, it's a wonder it even runs. I made ridiculous amounts of money as a self-employed "computer-repair" guy. I put that in quotes because 90% of the time, "repairing" the computer just involved rolling back the registry to something before Adobe Acrobat had been updated for the 14th time.