Posted on 08/02/2005 12:29:08 AM PDT by LibWhacker
You are preaching to the choir! I would've switched to Linux when I upgraded this year except I knew I simply wouldn't have the time to fiddle with a new OS until next year. I regard this PC as just a placeholder until sometime next year, when I will reassess the situation. I may switch to Linux or I may go back to Mac. If Vista is as oppressive as it sounds, then it'll definitely be time to move on!
PS. But I still don't see why I should have to subsidize thiefs!
This supposes that nothing is happening in the background while the B drive is connected. It could be sitting there doing a scan every X minutes and storing that to Drive A. In fact, it probably is.
Will you put me on your ping list please?
ping
Done! Welcome aboard!
Actually the problem is that pesky old registry.
The registry essentially keeps a log of all the software you have installed whether it's on C: or Z:....
What you mean is it offered them. No one has to accept any updates, and anyone can read the descriptions before choosing specific downloads.
The Maytag repairman is lonesome because people throw away their Maytags rather than repair them. I just threw away a Maytag a little over three years old. I got tired of repairing it and Maytag wanted almost as much as a new machine to "see if they could fix it." I declined to join the class action suit against them.
I saw a thread yesterday with an article where someone had already come up with a hack to disable checking of your computer for illegal software. Was it for this check?
It could be used for that. It simply goes right past the WGA.
javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')
Go to Start/settings/control_panel/ and click on Automatic_Updates.
This has GOT to be the biggest bit of horsepuckey I've ever read.
Do you keep an adequate supply of tinfoil around? Watch for black helecopters?
I can hear it now: Hey, Ivan. Write some particularly bad code today. We need to slow down Win95 so sales of Win98 will pick-up.
regardless of the *HUGE* number of applications that stopped working, check the performance of a typical system running SP2 vs. SP1 on Windows XP sometime. i too used to say, nah, thats being paranoid. unfortunately, M$ is a company with absolutely no scruples. check out how M$'s vaunted anti-spyware stopped flagging Claria items after M$ bought them...
Dittos! I have four machines, all four run Linux. Although two have W2K as a boot option. I haven't chosen that option for some time now. Not missing it.
A fact brought home as I sit here and clean a friends XP Home laptop of over 200 spy/adware programs and over 45 virus'. What a mess, a mess complicated by Microsoft's brilliant decision to incorporate IE/ActiveX into the OS.
Just bloody brilliant.
and guess what? Windows 98SE as a client runs rings around Windows 2000 client! bummer. what to do?
the solution? Windows ME is born! problem solved! Windows 2000 ekes out a win against the bloated Windows ME and the market clowns have something to sell the corporate CIO's who actually look at benchmarks (but clearly not very closely). as for the sheep, they've too stupid to know better and will run whatever DELL installs on their new machines. the M$ market droids will tell them ME is an improvement over 98SE and the sheep will look puzzled for a second, and take it as gospel, feeling a bit uncomfortable for a minute while they almost formed a thought in their head, but were able to suppress it! phew, that was close!
I have my main machine here that is running SP1, a few dual Xeons running SP2, and a dual-core Intel 840 running SP2.
Even given the fact that they all (currently) have different purposes, I can tell no difference in performance.
Is there something in particular I should be looking for?
"Windows XP SP1 SP2 Performance"
The gamers clealy recommend *against* SP2. the first one that hits in groups.google.com has five fairly complicated things that were necessary to erase the SP2 performance penalty over SP1...
of course, if you type the same string into the M$ search engine these delusional anti-M$ posts claiming slower performance probably won't show up. i don't dare try it since the eveel eye in redmond may notice me!
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