The Stob Cruft Index: a rolling computer gathers "cruft"
Summary
An early 2002 Dr. Dobb's Journal piece by Verity Stob introduces the Cruft Index, a humorous metric for diagnosing and quantifying 'cruft' in a Windows 2000 PC installation. The article enumerates Cruft Forces 0 through 10, describing everyday misconfigurations, clutter, and quirky system behaviors as a playful critique of legacy software bloat.