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[Iain Conochie]

Dan Kolb wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:46:08AM +0000, Peter Childs wrote:
>   
>> Why then to install practically any app do i have to reboot windows at least
>> once (usually twice) but to install it under Linux it just works....
>>     
>
> Err....that's just not true any more. Even Windows 2000, which I'm running on
> my office machine, only seems to want a reboot when it installs security
> updates.
>
> There are a few apps that still insist on rebooting, but there are fewer and
> fewer of them, as the coders actually get round to writing software that does
> things properly.
>
> Dan
>   
Anything that needs to modify the WinNT kernel will need a reboot after 
any update / install. There are many such apps. I-Tunes being one 
example, and also some anti-virus stuff as well (not data updates mind 
but program updates)

Cheers

Iain
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