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Vista--and improvement

When that 12,656 day download has finished, try this:

downloadwww.gif

w3schools.com/downloadwww.htm
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:D
 
I'm not so sure.

I tried the previous release on this laptop, and for the life of me couldn't get the screen set up properly. It couldn't detect the refresh rate or resolution. It couldn't identify the soundboard or network board either.
 
six7s said:
When that 12,656 day download has finished, try this:

[qimg]http://www.w3schools.com/images/downloadwww.gif[/qimg]
w3schools.com/downloadwww.htm
​

:D
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I remember downloading the 360kb "Captain (something or other)", a Mac game, way back in college. It was set for 4 hours, so I went and took a nap, then restarted it because it failed, then failed again, then finally worked.

It was a 2d 4-way scroller. I remember at one point you had to give a troll native thing a bag of baubles to get him to leave. He said, "Oh boy! Baubles!" and leaves.
 
Hydrogen Cyanide said:
When I first started out in Vista I got that kind of time, and then it corrected itself. It was a bit ago (I think I mentioned it in the thread I started here about the "new computer works great, when it is not shutting itself down").
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rebooting it "fixed" the problem...I was hoping vista would not suffer from some of the issues of the past. I would rather have XP...it takes four mouse clicks just to delete a favorite...silly.

glenn
 
It is a truth universally acknowlegded that a new operating system in possession of good new features, is in want of a bugfix...
 
Hindmost said:
......I was hoping vista would not suffer from some of the issues of the past.
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It seems to have several issues that require attention. It reminds of Windows ME in some of its problems.

What I mostly have problems is it being bipolar about whether or not it will let transfer files over the home network. Sometimes it won't let me pull files from my laptop, and other times it will... and on my laptop it decides to not become accessible --- even after I use the magic password, or later decide I have open access from the laptop.

I also have issues with it playing DVDs. If I get interrupted from viewing a DVD I set it to pause. If I am gone long enough it decides I have to reload the DVD. Yet one time I just stopped the DVD, closed the Windows Media Center and left. When I came back to finish watching the DVD it started up where I had left off.

Hindmost said:
I would rather have XP...it takes four mouse clicks just to delete a favorite...silly.


glenn
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I've deleted plenty of files, but not a "favorite". I do like that it just lets me turn it off.

I have some other issues with certain program. If I use the scroll wheel on my mouse in Quicken it goes only one direction, no matter which way I turn the wheel. Fairly annoying.

It also seems to set the scroll wheel speed to "molassis" after a while. I use the scroll to speed through, not to go slowly.

I did like XP much better... but some of the drivers on the new machine won't work in XP (trust us, we tried).
 
Although I'm definitely a Mac fanboy, I do like to tinker with other operating systems.

Since I have many websites, I also want to know what they look like to people using various browsers. So I recently bought a quad-core PC from Dell with 3GB of RAM.

Vista seems to me to benefit a great deal from having lots and lots of RAM and lots of CPU capacity. On this PC Vista runs very well. I've got 3 instances of the folding @ home client running on it, using up 76% of CPU most of the time, and yet the machine still seems very snappy.

I've left the (name escapes me) feature on that constantly interrupts the user to ask if they really want to do what they just indicated they want to do. I think it is wonderful that MS are obviously taking security much more seriously now, and showing results.

It is unfortunate that their corporate commitment to support as much older software as possible has painted them into a corner on security. In older versions of Windows privilege escalation by malware was relatively easy. It seems they have made it harder for authors of malicious software, and that is a good thing.

I think MS is due for a total rewrite of Windows, much like Apple did with their first release of OS X.

For anyone planning to buy a new PC with Vista, I suggest you go for at least a dual core processor, and maybe one with 3 or 4 cores, and get at least 2GB of RAM. Or try a Mac if you feel so inclined.
 
Hydrogen Cyanide said:
It seems to have several issues that require attention. It reminds of Windows ME in some of its problems.

What I mostly have problems is it being bipolar about whether or not it will let transfer files over the home network. Sometimes it won't let me pull files from my laptop, and other times it will... and on my laptop it decides to not become accessible --- even after I use the magic password, or later decide I have open access from the laptop.

I also have issues with it playing DVDs. If I get interrupted from viewing a DVD I set it to pause. If I am gone long enough it decides I have to reload the DVD. Yet one time I just stopped the DVD, closed the Windows Media Center and left. When I came back to finish watching the DVD it started up where I had left off.



I've deleted plenty of files, but not a "favorite". I do like that it just lets me turn it off.

I have some other issues with certain program. If I use the scroll wheel on my mouse in Quicken it goes only one direction, no matter which way I turn the wheel. Fairly annoying.

It also seems to set the scroll wheel speed to "molassis" after a while. I use the scroll to speed through, not to go slowly.

I did like XP much better... but some of the drivers on the new machine won't work in XP (trust us, we tried).
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I have vista on my laptop and XP on my desktop

I have similar issues playing dvds and accessing files. I cannot access my network drive to back things up--which is very irritating.

It took forever to get the printer connected to my desktop to print. I also set up a friend's printer with the same vista XP mix and hers will only print when the mood strikes it.

glenn
 
DoubtingStephen said:
Although I'm definitely a Mac fanboy, I do like to tinker with other operating systems.

Since I have many websites, I also want to know what they look like to people using various browsers. So I recently bought a quad-core PC from Dell with 3GB of RAM.

Vista seems to me to benefit a great deal from having lots and lots of RAM and lots of CPU capacity. On this PC Vista runs very well. I've got 3 instances of the folding @ home client running on it, using up 76% of CPU most of the time, and yet the machine still seems very snappy.

I've left the (name escapes me) feature on that constantly interrupts the user to ask if they really want to do what they just indicated they want to do. I think it is wonderful that MS are obviously taking security much more seriously now, and showing results.

It is unfortunate that their corporate commitment to support as much older software as possible has painted them into a corner on security. In older versions of Windows privilege escalation by malware was relatively easy. It seems they have made it harder for authors of malicious software, and that is a good thing.

I think MS is due for a total rewrite of Windows, much like Apple did with their first release of OS X.

For anyone planning to buy a new PC with Vista, I suggest you go for at least a dual core processor, and maybe one with 3 or 4 cores, and get at least 2GB of RAM. Or try a Mac if you feel so inclined.
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I bought a cheap HP laptop just to have in the living room to access the internet. It is a dual core with 2 Gb of ram. I am happy with the speed, but the installation and methods to get stuff done is irritating. When I can't access folders because I don't "have permission" and I am the only one that uses this thing, it is just not user friendly and seems a big step backwards for MS. A rewrite does seem in order.

glenn
 
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