Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

[Matt Staroscik]

At 02:59 PM 10/25/2004, you wrote:
>Just a side comment from the peanut gallery...
>
>I was referring to the fact that in most cases, the solution in the end
>most often IS to just reformat and reinstall because there's so much
>cruft/crap/crud in the registry and Windows directories that that is
>the best solution, unless you want to spend an extra couple days trying
>to sort everything out.

I have been temping at Microsoft for a while now. They have a term for this 
operation: "flatten."

As in, "CMS2002 is acting up on that box and authoring mode is broken... we 
need to flatten it. It's scheduled for next Monday."

Here, deep in Mordor, it's a way of life. :)

- matt