Leave Windows Alone

I’m currently consulting for a very large corporation.  They use Windows.  I don’t mind using Windows.   In fact, even though I prefer a number of open source alternatives, I am a firm believer in using the right tool for the job.  Sometimes, that tool is Windows.  What drives me nuts though is that apparently, they didn’t feel that Windows was the right tool for the job.  Instead of selecting a new tool, they bolted third party utilities onto Windows until they had some kind of Frankenstein’s monster.  It takes no less than 6 minutes for my company supplied laptop to boot up and logon to the network and that’s assuming that it does so on the first time.  Most mornings, I suffer at least 3 blue screens of death before I successfully startup and get logged in. 

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Tags: third party utilities, windows