Originally posted by popey.marin
devonferns : no, it isn't microsoft, it is just deeply included into mac OS X ...
Last time, a friend deleted quick time files (to revert manualy to QT 5 after installing QT6 beta), the computer was unable to display a window.
He had to reinstall the OS .....
the difference with windows is that in windows, any program that modify the register (that's a lot) need to restart the computer ...
Yes, that's true, but, with Unix you are supposed to be able to install any application without restarting. The only real reason you should have to restart is if there are changes made to the Kernel. If there are, then OK, but if not, then there should be a better way of installing programs.