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Originally Posted by ptyork
I think people WAY overstate the current issues with shared DLL's. I've been a windows developer since the early 90's. Back then, DLL hell was truly was HELL. You installed almost any DLL (not just VBRUN300 or MSVCRT10, but MYSTUPID.DLL as well) in the Windows\System directory under the assumption that others would find it somehow useful.
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I'm not a developer, so I'll take your word for all this - but what I tend to find is when I install software and it crashes, 90% of the time it's tanking on a DLL. I've also found that one of my programs will get unstable/cranky after I install another similar program - particularly video editors. I assume this was part of shared DLLs, but perhaps not. Quite often the developers of these applications say "Oh, yeah, our app is crashing because you have apps XYZ installed" - as if that's an excuse for them to have a stable application only on computers where nothing else is installed. It completely pisses me off. I think codec hell is still a problem today, because some apps share codecs, update codecs, etc.
I want a version of Windows that, even if I install and uninstall 100 different apps, doesn't feel/act any slower or more unstable. That's what I want from Windows. Vista isn't perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better - from the original install when Vista was released, I've only re-imaged my machines once each. That's a BIG change from the XP days.