@aral Windows is randomly automatic. It breaks itself sometimes and it fixes itself sometimes. Almost no matter what's wrong, a reboot is 50% "good enough" and 50% bafflingly ineffective.

Years ago, I was just trying to be a responsible gamer and updated my graphics driver. This was enough to take Windows down past the point of a recovery disk's ability to fix it.

Without being able to tell whether I broke it or it broke itself, how do people take this platform seriously!?