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I got a new laptop a couple months back. It came with Windows 7, and I thought, ok, what the hell, I might as well fire it up and see what this is like.

It took somewhere upwards of 15 minutes to finish some final installation step, and the first thing it presented me with was a notification dialog explaining that Explorer had crashed.

I haven't actually booted Windows since, which leaves me with a personal average boot time considerably over 2 minutes...

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I've had a similar experience with a HP machine. However, don't blame Windows for this, Windows 7 by himself is a pretty decent OS, as long as you do a clean install. The version that cames preloaded on new machines is usually full of crappy applications that have nothing to do with Windows, these are installed by the provider (HP in my case). The same machine with a clean copy of Windows 7 Pro 64 bits boots in about 1 minute.

I agree with you. Microsoft itself said (some time ago) that many of Windows' crashes were caused by third-party software or drivers, and I believe that. Even so, they reduced the number of crashes that occur, and greatly improved crash-recovery (you rarely see a BSOD happening these days).

My PC has never had a crash with Windows 7, but then, I chose the hardware by hand.

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