Windows is volatile. If you treat it just right it’s great. Otherwise reboot it so all the dll’s will go back to the rock they crawled out of. All that dll stuff was created for one purpose. So people would not be able to copy an application and put it on another machine. And the registry, the ever expanding registry, that flat file heirarchical madness. All put there for one purpose, so people would not be able to copy an application from one machine and paste it to another. They made it hard to install apps on purpose. only problem, it made them just as difficult to uninstall them.
Did I mention it’s unbelievably poor network detection software. It reminds me of that dog on the Saturday morning cartoons.
“Which way did he go?” “Which way did he go?” So they post a message to keep you at bay. “Microsoft is detecting/repairing your network” while the machine scans your complete hard drive, looking for the word “network” on every file on your computer, who knows what it’s doing? Invariably at the end of all that waiting it says. “So sorry Uncle Albert, would you like to click this button again and do it all over?”