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WebWord Reader Comment -- "Just a couple of comments on your "installing NAV 2002" article, which I bumped into. I agree with you that the information you are given by the install process isn't up to scratch, but I hope I can explain at least why you had to restart 3 times..."

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What strikes me about this email is the number of times that your computer is rebooted just to shut down a program.

For example, the second reboot when you replace the old NAV with the new one ("antivirus software is generally running when you try
to uninstall it, so it needs to restart"). What this implies is that the program cannot stop without a complete system shutdown. Can you imagine if all programs were like that!?

I can see the need for your third reboot (where the NAV needs to be running during a fresh start to ensure your system is clean), but all of the other re-boots were just to temporarily shut down active software. It seems to me that should be able to be done without going through a five minute reboot.

Posted by David Tallan @ 01/15/2002 10:18 AM EST

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