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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.

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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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