Thread: What's this 'Too Many Devices' on PC ?
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Old 07-11-2020, 07:15 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
I'd guess it's not Windows, but something the OP is in the habit of doing, or not doing. I've been using Windows for over half of my life and never, ever have I had a system crash or had to reinstall Windows. Not once in 20 years.
You could be correct, and I'll concede that 20 years is a long time.

But not much more than 20 years ago windows had a bug that made it freeze hard 49.71 days after boot up regardless of what was or was not done during that time. linux had a very similar bug that made it also freeze hard after 497.1 days.

The linux bug was discovered and fixed before the windows bug was even discovered, partly because when it happened it was widely assumed it was caused by something someone did or didn't do, or any other commonplace windows crash. Also people were used to having to do frequent reboots and many organizations started scheduling mandatory reboots because of all the other problems.

Taking a page from the apple playbook, microsoft tried to define percentage uptime as 100.0*(actual uptime)/(elapsed time - scheduled downtime).
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