Post #13,982
10/18/01 1:29:02 PM
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Had to deal with Windows XP yesterday.
What a pile of crap. It's the same damned thing with everything moved around so it looks different, and reorganized to put absolutely as little information as few selections as possible on each screen.
I told my client to try to get a notebook with Windows Me, but she went to Frys and they told her they had no such thing - all notebooks now have "XP Home Edition" only. No choices.
I have another client running it on his new Sony tower, and he hates it. "It's stupid, you can't find anything, it doesn't have drivers for my printer, a lot of my software doesn't run . . . ".
Open rebellion is the only rational response to this piece of crap.
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Post #14,027
10/18/01 4:46:17 PM
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that's the key point though
Open rebellion is the only rational response to this piece of crap.
If people were rational, they wouldn't have put up with "it'll be fixed in the next release" for this long.
Darrell Spice, Jr.
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Post #14,064
10/18/01 9:08:18 PM
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You can get rid of most of it.
I finally said "Screw the bug count" and got rid of the cruft - my work machine now looks like a Win2k machine, and runs almost as fast..
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #14,135
10/19/01 4:29:31 AM
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Heh - and both my work and home W2K machines...
...look pretty much exactly like a pre-IE W95/NT4 machine[1], work perhaps as fast[2], but are rock fucking solid, in comparison[3].
[1]: Thank you, TweakUI, for the "shell enhancements" check box! (Which I un-checked, that is.)
[2]: What do I know, when I've never used either on a machine this fast? OTOH, my home machine feels at least as fast under W2K as under NT4. OTGH, that could be because I just haven't crufted up the Registry as much on this install -- yet...
[3]: In comparison to NT4, that is. W95 I have not only never used on a machine this fast; I've hardly ever used it at all. (Went directly from W3.11 to NT4.)
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
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Post #14,390
10/21/01 3:12:38 AM
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What do you expect?
I mean, what has been the windows eXPerience all along?
Right.
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #14,713
10/22/01 11:14:51 PM
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XP = eXtra Pointless?
Sure they had to rearrange the whole layout so they could charge more for MCSE training. I bet they changed the API calls as well? Got to charge more for MCSD training. Not to mention the User Training, but Gateway and Compaq/HP can take care of that. ;)
Picking up the pieces of my broken life.
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Post #14,718
10/22/01 11:42:06 PM
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Went back today to finish the job - big problem.
What a piece of crap - clumsy as hell - and something keeps trying to dial the Internet, and stuff blows up and every time it blows up XP tries to send debug data to Microsoft. Like they're going to look at it. Or maybe they pass it on to the Tooth Fairy.
Got most everything working - BUT - it can't see their big Lanier copier / printer (their main printer). Every other workstation sees the Lanier, but XP is blind to it.
Incidentally, it automatically sets up icons for every share it finds on the network, printers, disks, directory, whether or not you want them visable on your system.
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Post #14,887
10/24/01 12:45:35 AM
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The Browser Fairy
I think Microsoft has a Browser Fairy working for them to collect browser debug information? For every error report you send, you get a free BSOD and system crash, not to mention an icon for each network share! :)
Can you at least remove those extra icons from your desk?
It seems like IE 6.0 and 5.5 have this "debug" feature built in as well. It is not just an XP thing. I think it might be able to be uninstalled, maybe 98-Lite?
Picking up the pieces of my broken life.
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Post #14,947
10/24/01 11:18:19 AM
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Sure you can remove them, but . .
Next time you open Printers or Network places, they're back.
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