Marvel wrote:
> It has been said that the new Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) update that is 
> being force fed to every user on the planet via update has problems.
> 
> For example a person with a perfectly authentic copy of Windows accepted the 
> WGA unknowingly. The update wiped out several drivers and ruined his 
> machine.
> He ran system restore and was o.k., but the update is trying to get in 
> again.
> This could get real nasty fast.
> What are our choices?
> Read more here
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=76
> 
> 
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-6087462.html?tag=nl.e550

Windows Update kept installing "fixes" that screwed up all of the 
different USB hub, controller, and device drivers so that every time I 
printed from my USB printer or made a Skype call from my USB phone, I 
got a BSOD within five minutes.  Normally, my PC would crash four times 
a day at very predictable times.

Xandros 4 came out on the 26th.  I installed it over my old v.2.5 that 
is on the other half of this HDD and I haven't had a crash yet.  But, I 
_am_ posting from the Windows side right now because it _is_ a bigger 
pain to set the multilingual properties in Xandros and I have a learning 
curve that others may not.