You can add to the problem the fact that all versions of Windows manages very baddly memory and CDROM.

• An application runing use some amount of memory, when you exit the application the operational system must release all the memory used by the application, with Windows this not happens in all cases and sometimes the memory is not freed.
  This is the reason why you have the restart the computer after running for some time some applications.
• If you insert a bad CD (with risks, dirty, etc) the reaction of Windows can be, get frozen for some time or forever, virus messages, error messages (invalisd code, memory pointer invalid with the classic EAX=0FFFFFFF ESP= 0123456 EIP=.....), after some time a blue screen (this time informing that was an error reading the CD), open the CDROM player with nothing to play, widows explorer get frozen, etc.
  You can see that all kind of things can happen instead of simple opening a Message Box informing you that the CD cannot be read.

Message edited on: 04/23/2005 14:12

Stupidity also evolves!