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I don't remember NT4 crashing around that time. And my Win95 set-up would crash sometimes when booting an audio app or game with a faulty driver. But again I would shut down the computer every day. It must have been around the same time Linux geeks started posting their uptimes.

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I remember installing NT4 on my desktop PC in ... 1997 or '98. Within 24 hours, it wouldn't boot any more. I formatted the hard drive an installed it again, and within 24 more hours, it once more refused to boot.

Of course, I did not have much of a clue what I was doing back then.

Windows NT4 was "peak stability" in my experience.

Although some have said that Windows 2000 was more stable, I found the fusion of 95/98 into the NT kernel made it less so.

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