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not to mention why buying new PC for just 1 program that was duped on purpose

the only good thing that came with Vista was DWM nothing else, absolutely nothing, and this is core stuff, not UI wise crap, UI was crippled comparing to XP but tech side, UAC how "good" intention it was (but it was lazy made one), is also most annoying one, but ok lets attribute it as step forward, thus A GOOD THING DWM, already mentioned above, GPU acceleration and mapping into GPU memory, stops many graphical bugs and unloads CPU from re-drawing crap other than that Vista has nothing over XP, in fact the dependency via .NET which now increases all the time just makes it crappier OS good thing that both Vista and 7 do not require anything more than .net 2.0 to work properly (which is sadly integrated due to MIL and DWM) but winblows 8 and "10" oh my... hello again IE system wide integration and dependency no thanks, goodbye

nope as win7 gives me all I need, if XP worked fine on my HW, which it didn't for some reason, I'd probably stay on it... as for whole win8 and "10", the most thing I dislike is again, IE with this metro thingy, again MS has excuse to force IE deep into the OS core again now while they probably dealt with security measures, but honestly again if you disable UAC youre on square one with security down... and while metro apps (why the heck are those called apps again?) are disabled without UAC "on", you still have all that crap with integrated bing, skype and those shitty "live" accounts its just like they are making this OS into online OS more and more yes its good for tablets and phones ... but Workstations (desktops) NO ! - which are BTW FAR FROM BEING GONE, as I don't see on what else will be App's and games made anyway ... certainly not on shitty tablets ... LOL

you don't need bigger shadows for good effect just look vista/win7 effect on INACTIVE window shadow is small but mild I've done this for my active win's too so it looks very nice not having that ugly black strong thick shadow as for win10, I find nothing interesting there ... absolutely nothing, to me its just win 8.2 it will have tweaked UI a bit and thats all there is...

well if there is something I know for sure it always happens on people's blogs

keyboard locale is HR (croatian) OS locale is english (US) browsers don't matter, Opera (old) & Palemoon (FF, latest), both have this screwups, and no I don't block JS pages... i don't remember, but happens when I run into some ... and sometimes its not whole sentence in those squarted numbers but mixed with normal letters first I thought it was some Chineze crap since their symbols are .... fubar but then I noticed it on some english sites too is this due to some new fonts that are called from google servers for CSS ?

don't matter which browser I use, on some pages I get this weird symbols instead letters sometime they are even mixed within a words with letters why is that ..., i even see that on youtube sometime weird things appear pic below

as always they are copying apple and as always they are years behind and as always they have no innovations last time I was excited about Win OS, was when Windows 7 alpha build 6801 came out and new taskbar was unlocked after that everything they made was UNINTERESTING !

there is a trick to fix this but dunno how legal would be for me to post it here but yeh, i managed to make work newwer skype on non SSE2 CPU with XP

if there was EVER time for Linux to become most user friendly and easy to use its now !

yeh but they kill webcam for non-sse2 cpu's

ah thank holy spirits someone finally agrees indexing is piece of sh ... and I can never understand why so many tools use $MFT and MS does not ... they constantly want to use metadata search but fail to realise WinFS is GONE !!!

how is it resource heavy ? less or same as FF ?

I'd say its what win8 supposed to be but I still hate it ... and won't be using it

Noel you're not only one ... i simply fail to see bright future for this NT anymore

letters are different coz of font type and cleartype thingy otherwise letters are same (that was bad comparison there) as of look, I always used WindowBlinds on XP and never default XP look, the OS looked better than vista and 7

well said

by everest: ------------- Motherboard ID 11/21/2003-nVidia-nForce-6A61BA1BC-20 Motherboard Name Abit NF7(-S) v2.0 Front Side Bus Properties - Bus Type DEC Alpha EV6 Bus Width 64-bit Real Clock 133 MHz (DDR) Effective Clock 267 MHz Bandwidth 2133 MB/s Memory Bus Properties - Bus Type DDR SDRAM Bus Width 64-bit DRAM:FSB Ratio 1:1 Real Clock 133 MHz (DDR) Effective Clock 267 MHz Bandwidth 2133 MB/s Chipset Bus Properties - Bus Type HyperTransport v1.0 Bus Width 8-bit Motherboard Physical Info - CPU Sockets/Slots 1 Socket 462 Expansion Slots 5 PCI, 1 AGP RAM Slots 3 DDR DIMM Integrated Devices Audio, LAN Form Factor ATX Motherboard Size 240 mm x 300 mm Motherboard Chipset nForce2-U400 Extra Features SoftMenu

dunno, I just typed in device name and "XP driver" into google there is one "flash" program (for HDD) on the transcend site, but it says it DOES NOT work on USB 2 machines and also HDD contains sensitive valuable data and I don't want to do flashing of anything just something that will make XP reckognize it

thats weird

the HDD in question is Transcend StoreJet 500 GB (USB 2.0/3.0) on win 7 (sp1) when plugged in to USB 2 slot, works at once, OS detects it via generic driver and all is fine but same HDD on again USB slot 2, but on win XP SP3, **** thing won't even get detected the device starts to do "beep, beep, beep, beep", nothing gets loaded/detected by OS, no response any idea why ? I tried to find some drivers for XP online but no success

except s***ty performance even under sp2 I simply hated it coz of its clunky file manager and whole system wide ui 7 got better less cluttered FM, yet again system wide ui still sucks, but I guess with M$ you can't get it all finally 7 SP1 runs better to me than vista SP2, so why downgrade in fact if XP had option for scaling of folders/image thumbs to bigger and 7 taskbar (tho viglance somehow helps but it aint it), i'd switch back to XP even today

did you play with windows metrics or DPI ?

whats with 20 spam topics

people simply became sick few years back in my country some kids tied a dog to hang up-side-down the tree and hitted him with bats till he died