[Windows 8 First Impressions]

Apple made a study and came to the conclusion that Working touch only on PCs is an ergonomic disaster.

a study is needed to conclude this ? ... oh my whatever...

one can do it by simply raising hands and holding them for 20 seconds

[Windows 8 First Impressions]

I don't like it simply because they ruined the concept of serious OS

if we go back to Whistler, many disliked that next version (XP) would look so painted and ugly

and naturally Vista followed

I greet skinning with open arms, and think that OS should indeed look more nicer than just plain old gray flat panel look

but there should be line drawn to what is serious and efficient

now comes 8 that turns workstation into child playground

seriously Metro is beginning of crapiness

this move doesn't make user focus on OS and/or how to use it but to most lazy ineffective cluttered UI to which even biggest id*** will praise but still

because its Windows OS that will need HUGE maintainance and thus such user will complain for various stuff as it always goes with windows os...

now many complain how start menu is crap and how this start screen is sooo much better

well who says that start menu's function was even that of start screen in 1st place ?

AFAIK and this goes since 95 era, start menu always showed all installed programs and additional features (accesability, system tools, networking etc...)

start screen does not

and what is even worse its ran upon IE which makes IE again needed to be in core of OS

the next thing they brag about is faster search... doh there were great and better alternatives to this since ~2005

take UltraSearch for example, it reads directly from MFT - no need for databases or indexing or whatnot...

and manipulates with files like you do from within File manager aka Explorer

to me that they make Tablet UI OS for desktop is ridiculous, as much as I hate to say "apple got it right", but they did

Desktop workstation and Tablet deserve separate OS-es, or atleast same OS core with UI that is made for specifically desktop or tablet

now with all this web social bull s*** integrated, the OS concept goes even more worse...

I just couldn't believe when Ballmer on last conference sold all that crap to people how all people he knows are now so "close to him"

how virtual life and life are same

I mean c'mon...

sure technology and OS-es need to evolve but this is not the way...

instead to patch NT holes they have they focus on... well I won't even describe it

[XP loaded without IE, will auto updates still be available?]

wouldn't removing IE completely also mess up explorer shell view's ?

[winre.wim]

thanks

[Where does Windows save the height of the Taskbar?]

no its not

you can even enlarge taskbar more (same happens in win7), if you set your quicklaunch icons to "large" where they increase to 48x48 instead 32x32

thus taskbar gets few more pixels from bottom in height

[winre.wim]

any chance you know where to "change" these options ?

[Windows 7 or window XP]

why is pre-beta OS even suggested here ?

its full of bugs

[Windows 7 or window XP]

1st write your PC spec's

2nd write what is more important to you, shiny UI and new games or Work

[winre.wim]

hmm

I have recoveryenabled=yes

but what purpose of that is if my custom DVD can't do repair at all ?

i'm bit confused with this

[Share your win7 Performance Score Here]

OS can't complete mine because it can't detect what CPU I have

hilarious since CPU-Z and Everest can

also I find it quite dumb that it takes Final score based on worst calculation, you can have everything of 5.0 score and 1 thing of 1.0

and it will score you 1.0

[winre.wim]

how can I know if something is "programmed" in this BCD as you say ?

[winre.wim]

story goes

my win7 dvd is rt7lite-d, thus it does not have recovery options on it

now since I read that winre.wim is working(?) with that recovery thing on OS DVD, then I have no use of it on my hard drive

so question is can I then delete it or windows loads this file in normal mode too ?

[Windows XP Is Not Dead But Is Outdated]

new Hardware and drivers will force people to switch

year ago I swore I'd stay on XP long after its extended support ends... behold the irony, I'm on "7" now

reason: newer Hardware that XP sucked with + GDI object limitations problems it has and were never fixed

[Problem with image in win7]

problem is in custom skin/visual theme that you use

from image, I would say who ever made it, either made upper window frame higher so buttons don't align anymore

or simply screwed up the positions of buttons only

maybe I'm wrong...

is this system wide bug or only on that setup/installer ?

[Which harware could last a lifetime?]

keyboard definitely

offcourse not the cheapest ones that break up when you hit them

but anyone who ever use(d) keytronic keyboards know they live live live

mine is 11 years old and still kicking like day 1

[Anti-Virus programs are a virus]

not all are scam, but I personally avoid hyped products and stick with one I know for longest time (I won't advertise which is it)

enough to say is, from XP to "7", it never missed anything and it isn't bloatware, been sticking with same product for ~5 years now

use your product with HOSTS file, properly configured Firewall and a good browser that has popup/scam blocker

[MSI's]

well for repair it has sense to junk pile backup msi's

but for uninstall only purpose either cfg or ini files to me are more logical

you'd had maybe 5 MB big file with a list

[MSI's]

that bites

I thought by now Windoze keeps install settings and file locations in ini file(s)

btw thanks for answers

[MSI's]

these take rougly ~270 MB

and me having small hard drive, I hate to waste it on useless things

so do these have any significance or I can just delete them ?

[SSD and DEFRAGING]

Defragging is/was necessary only because of Hard Disk needle time to seek/jump to locations, and when files are fragmented/scattered it took time...

SSD's don't have moving parts, they work instant since its just... chip memory (something like that)

[Can't Find Custom Theme Files]

C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes

or %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes

[How to open folders with tons of files in XP as fast as other commande]

Its removed already is this nlited version I use

its still better to replace it since Explorer will still be searching for it, in your case it won't find it, but is still linked to it...

when replaced with dud, it will find it, but as dud's nature is, will unload it/self instantly

you can alternatively hit ctrl+alt+del too see if anything else eats CPU time while your Explorer is lagging

Offtopic:

I even wonder would same thing help windows 7 too

as I see same file in sys32 and loading thumbnails on any file lags Explorer too (tho not that much as on XP)

[WinsxsLite does not work on Windows 7 - any solution?]

I know, thats why I gave comment of "not answer he wanted"

I had to reformat for same reason

[How to open folders with tons of files in XP as fast as other commande]

its most probably problem with VERCLSID.EXE

I had same problem, until people here recomended to replace it with "dud" (google it)

result was ultra speed browsing through folders with many files

[WinsxsLite does not work on Windows 7 - any solution?]

I used RT7Lite for that, left me with WinSxS of 800 MB in size

yep I know its not answer you like but heck... if you want some things you have to find alternate ways