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by foxyshadis1 on Fri Jun 24, 2005 at 08:19:00 AM PDT

That's great in theory, but right now every OS crashes or becomes unstable if a kernel driver fails horribly, which is why most OSes (including current NT-based ones) prefer user-mode drivers. And so far I've never seen a user-mode driver cause more than an application crash. For the same reason apps aren't allowed to scribble into each others' and the system's memory and disk, unless they enable privs that are only active under admin and sometimes power user accounts; and why SFP, SxS, and System Restore (eg, registry backups) are enabled by default.

Buggy kernel-mode realtek drivers hating on sleep mode are the only things that have ever made my entire xp system unstable in the last year, and I beat at it.

If you're talking about 98 and friends then you're talking about another planet entirely, which is kind of beating a dead horse. Many of the failings of current Windows comes down to running as root too much of the time, and developers who abuse that default to create software that requires and perpetuates it. More security and stability vs. pissing off your customer base and costing them a lot of money.

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