It's all interface preferences. Well Richard, that's going from the absurd to the extreme. NOR the GPF window either. Just because that particular OS is very poorly designed on purpose is no excuse to accept it's foibles as needful or even useful. Maybe there's only one of me, but I should be joined in those expectations by ALL the computer users in the world if they care at all about their own purposes for having a computer.
Computers have the potential to be great tools.
The use of DOS windows for error messages was used in the cave-man days when they didn't have other options. If one has no choice in the matter it's not a preference. All rights reserved.