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@rant of start screen
the concept behind start screen is good bud terrible executed (like all MS ideas
)screens are big and long these days and could remove need of start menu
but only if you could have either tabbed (or "modern" buttoned) sections instead subfolders that menu has
and you'd simply have icons with names below nicely named and sorted just like in folder
there's no need for useless scrolling or intrusive full screen crap
this don't take rocket scientist to make but they fail at any UX design and make it crap
I still fail to see how they can say they spend hundreds thousands of $ on user testing and experience when in final product they always serve garbage
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it still beats the DWM requirement
as it was GeForce 5/Radeon 9500 for it to work as I remember
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take windows vista for example. almost nobody liked it when it launched (?) but there can be no denying that it was a improvement over windows xp.
LOL I think there are MANY that will argue, rightly or wrongly, with that statement. I also agree that Vista was probably underrated, but that is not the point
well said
Vista as itself has nothing that much radical improved over XP
I personally only liked the introduction of DWM which removes the GDI limitations that XP had which caused that OS to be totally unusable
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not on taskbar
but you can make shortcut, put it to quick launch bar
then right click on taskbar and choose Unlock taskbar, now you can see borders of quick launch
then right click in empty space of quick launch bar, click on View -> Large icons (set size of icons to be near big as taskbar ones)
good thing with quick launch is that you can make multiple separate bars and place them to right or left of taskbar
you can also center your icons on taskbar by using quick launch to be like on mac os
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without doing all that stuff
could it be because my GPU is direct x 9
and I remember that Vista's DWM (longhorn) was actually dx9
but since win7 emulates dx9 unlike 10 and 11
cant it be coz of my gpu being dx9 and win7 emulation of it ?
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offtopic:
even with transparency that OS look so butchered up
even reminds me on stardock windowblinds when theme was screwed up and it rendered exactly like here on pictures
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I'm bit lost
I have good machine to run win7
CPU dual core AMD Athlon (X2 5050e)
3 GB ddr2 RAM
and high end GPU GeForce 7950 GT
yet with DWM on, explorer takes 2 secs to open
browsing through folders lags
going into pictures folders and enabling thumbnails takes up to 15 seconds to show them
with DWM off, everything is instant, 1 to 2 seconds
shouldn't the effect be reversed ?
shouldn't the system with GPU usage (which is superior than CPU) be faster ?
(at least in drawing/showing things)
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until you get thingy like "security sphere 2012"
then you will cry
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the Chinese are working on an Aero Glass patch
isn't simple uxtheme patch enough ?
borders are pictures anyway, no need for hacks
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take in consideration that they don't want to give security updates later
to claim XP (NT 5.1/2) are less secure than NT 6 series
thus the famous "upgrade to Windows ..." whatever its name is
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to me whole MS approach is stupid
bgates once in past said that purpose of SP to him would be only to deploy patches
but even when "last" SP's are being released, there are tons of patches later
by the logic there should be "end-SP" that would deliver last "wave" of patches and then to end the product support
just look how many patches XP has after SP3... its hilarious
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usually when new OS gets SP1 old one gets SP2
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I find UI on that fresh paint thingy totally unusable
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believe it or not a MS article actually helped (linked in 1st link that submix8c gave)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321410
this:
Open Internet Explorer.
On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
Click the Advanced tab.
Click to select the Disable script debugging check box, and then click OK.
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it was not problem with mdm
but with ie's debug scripts
and skype seems to use IE components (you can hear its popular click sounds when it loads the frame)
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for now it seems it worked, will give it 2-3 days then report back
also thanks alot !
It's amazing how IE can cause so much trouble
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I personally wouldn't buy it even if it was just 1$
to me simply bad product don't deserve support
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our "family pc" has some troubles
it runs XP SP2
and 2 days ago we put skype on it, first day it ran ok
and then yesterday these started to pop-out when it was ran
then i checked even viewer, and got these:
PC was scanned with malwarebytes am, nothing was found, I removed previously installed vc++ redist 2005
and installed vc++ redist 2005 SP1 and 2010 SP1 (just in case), since errors were tied with MachineDebugManager
then since it mentions WUAUSERV i enabled win auto updates (altho it makes no logic to me), but still nothing was better
then I removed skype, and installed it fresh, again nothing
and this is the only app causing this mess
I don't know what else to do
any ideas ?
(we don't even mind the event errors, just those annoying popup errors for debug are pain in arse)
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only ported ones with alky
and those are even bugged
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if you want vista stuff
then upgrade to vista
problem solved
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well there is no point giving updates for non final product, even if they fix bugs
at least not minor ones
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the list is too huge to see anything
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I have annoying problem on win7sp1
last week I bought Transcend "JetFlash 350" stick of 16GB
and when stiffed in usb port, it takes about 30 sec's to be loaded/shown in explorer
while on XP it loads it within 2 sec's
is there any way to tweak/speed this up or win7 has some issues ?
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Windows 8 - Deeper Impressions
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you missed quite alot