[dayglored]

> I’d settle for the damn things being able to install 30 programs, run 5 simultaneously, and not crash all the time. That should have been accomplished 10 or 15 years ago. All the fancy bells and whistles are totally useless when compared to reliability.

Are you running Win7? I'd say it more than accomplishes those goals.

> Any how about the simple feat of being able to copy a directory listing to the clipboard?

Get Cygwin -- it's the free open-source Unix/Bash subsystem. Cygwin

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Not on 7 yet. I understand IT has slated the move sometime before the end of the year.

Cygwin...sounds like vast overkill. I’ve got a simple batch file that does the trick, but you have to have at least one folder in a directory to invoke it.