[My back yard]

I have an easier time undoing whatever it is that I tricked or forced the machine to do.

I have the same talent. I purchased my computer in '98, and within a week had to completely restore my hard drive -- everything wiped then reloaded. The nice young man at Gateway who talked me through the restore/reload said they were going to have a new section addressing how I was able to do it. They changed something so that you can't do it that way anymore. lol

[Darksheare]

I was asked how I crashed a Mac.
I said I had opened it's version of notepad while doing something else online. (It was a little more involved tahn that, I was also playing music while it was downloading, and had already gotten the memory low warning.)
And that is normal usage for me.

Windows does the same thing at times.
I usually can convince the machine to behave.
Usually through the close program dialog or by beating it into submission through other ways.
I did have to do a drive C wipe recently. Windows had decided that my settings weren't what it was going to do and that it was going to permanently hold onto browser cache. And my file associations had been slimed by windows as well for no apparent reason.
Rathe rthan battling through window's 'create associations' BS, I wiped it and started fresh.
Windows is still a flaky bloated and arrogant program.
I have been told I have a killer touch with technology.
Windows has found that out the hard way.

On the other hand, as well as a lighter note, I have a wonderful and remarkable talent with growing roses.