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    Windows 10 - Deeper Impressions

    in Windows 10

    Posted · Edited by cc333

    1 hour ago, JorgeA said:

    I was going to be a smart-aleck and warn you that, No! You need to keep that reputation number down as low as possible!!

    So, that means, in non-smart-aleck terms, that it is a good thing?

    I'm a bit confused, but okay. You have almost 500 of them, and you haven't been banned, so I guess they're good!

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    EDIT: Just gave you a reputation!

    p.s. Thank you for bearing with me here, as I'm new to this "reputation" feature (which, I surmise, is akin to the "Like" button which exists in Facebook and such).

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    Windows 10 - Deeper Impressions

    in Windows 10

    Posted

    I forget now, but it was one of those things that enables the classic (Win95-style) theme, and WD kept marking it as malware. It was ClassicTheme.exe, I think.

    I'm thinking, in an effort to future-proof myself slightly (and because licenses seem to be almost dirt-cheap now), would Windows 8.1 be any better? My understanding is that it still has a little bit of sanity left (once all the Metro bits are removed).

    Yeah, I had AVG Free do that back in like 2008-2009, where it wasn't detecting the files themselves as viruses, but it detected some sort of benign virus, and in the process of removing it, corrupted all my files that were infected (it was quite a few, as I recall). Bitdefender didn't do that, so I switched (they didn't have a decent free edition, though, so after the subscription lapsed, I went with MSE until I came across Avast Free, which seems to work rather well, and was highly rated. The best part is that the current version still fully supports XP (as far as I can tell).

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    Windows 10 - Deeper Impressions

    in Windows 10

    Posted

    I wouldn't mind doing that, however, unless I'm doing something stupid, every time I put it in a VM, it's uselessly slow. I mean, it takes 10 minutes to boot up!

    I've used VMWare Fusion 7.0 and VirtualBox.

    Meanwhile, I've been sending the articles linked here to some friends to warn them against upgrading.

    So far, they're not impressed with 10.

    I'd also like to note that they're all Mac users. I'm not saying Apple is a saint compared to MS, but they must be doing something that MS isn't to win over customers (I'm speaking about their software, of course; Apple hardware is a different matter, and I don't agree with some recent design decisions they've made).

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    p.s. What does "reputation" mean on these forums? Is it a good thing??

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    Windows 10 - Deeper Impressions

    in Windows 10

    Posted

    I've given up. After Windows Defender decided to spontaneously demolish some of my files (coincidentally, the ones which were meant to make Windows 10 more sane), I wiped the drive clean and installed XP on my Compaq Presario CQ-62-219WM instead :)

    So far, it's much faster (the fastest this machine has ever felt, actually), and, once I figured out the AHCI drivers I need (the BIOS is very dumbed down, so I can't turn AHCI off), it installed quite easily!

    So far, everything everyone here has said about 10 makes perfect sense. I still have the W10 license, so I *can* reinstall it if I'm ever in a masochistic mood. *rolleyes*

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    Windows 10 - Deeper Impressions

    in Windows 10

    Posted

    This sort of news makes me even more inclined to stay away from Windows 10. Probably forever.

    Windows 7 was the last truly decent Windows OS I think, and I'm going to stay with it for the rest of all time.

    Of course, when support ends for 7, it won't make any difference if I run it or XP or 2000, since they'd all be in the same boat, and they'd all be equally as unsafe due to lack of updates (save for any unofficial ones that come along).

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    Windows Update Stuck at "Checking For Updates..."

    in Windows 7

    Posted

    Ahh, of course! The search function!!

    Anyway, I looked at the thread you linked to, and it sounds like the solution to the infinitely long "Checking for updates..." message is contained therein.

    However, since the Free Upgrade is now done with, it's sorta moot for the purposes of this thread. :/

    I will, however, keep the fix in mind if I experience problems again in the future.

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    Slipstream wpa.dbl into System-Specific Windows XP Pro Disk

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

    Posted

    As discussed over here, I am NOT (I repeat, NOT) attempting to make a warez release or whatever it's called. My goal is simply to create a disk by which to install XP onto my Mac Pro without reactivating every time (and therefore wasting valuable activations).

    It is not my intention to break any rules, nor do I wish to distribute the resulting ISO via bittorrent. I just want to know if this can be done, in private, for my own personal use. Otherwise, I'm content to do it manually (the procedure for which is well documented it seems).

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    What can I do with this old XP computer?

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    First, you would probably need an ethernet card, if you don't have one already. The port looks similar to the modem ports, but it's wider.

    Second, once you're online, it wouldn't hurt to let IE8 download its updates, as even if you don't use it, leaving it at IE6 creates a giant bulls-eye for viruses to zero in on. It will also allow for Windows Update to work properly (though it should still work on 6).

    Third, upgrading the RAM wouldn't hurt down the road. 1 GB is adequate, but 2 GB or more would be ideal, as discussed earlier in this thread.

    Good luck getting it going!

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    PreSonus FirePod (FP10) Firewire Audio Interface Won't Sync on XP

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    Hi,

    I just got this second-hand audio interface at the local music shop, and I was eager to try it out on XP, since it was officially supported (unlike my Focusrite, which is mentioned in another thread), but it won't work!

    I can get it to work perfectly on OS X and Windows 7, so I know the interface is working properly. It just won't work on XP, yet it is recognized and at least part of the driver installs correctly. Trouble is, it never syncs up with the computer, and it never shows up under Audio devices in Device Manager (it does on 7). So, I've surmised that it must be an XP problem. With that in mind, I reinstalled XP from scratch, and I still have the same issue.

    Anyone here have any ideas? It's not super critical that I get it working on XP, but it would be nice.

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    What can I do with this old XP computer?

    in Windows XP

    Posted · Edited by cc333

    Well, I haven't had much recent experience with modern PCs in the last year or two, but I have used an Apple PowerBook G4 upon occasion (which is contemporary), and it didn't fare too well (I'd say barely usable, and perhaps useless if you need to do anything Flash-intensive, like Youtube). From what I've heard and read, though, those old P4's often have fared better, if only somewhat (probably because they were often clocked much higher than the G4s).

    That being said, if you can optimize it carefully (and max out the RAM, if possible), it should perform quite adequately for light to medium web browsing (don't expect it to play High Definition Youtube videos, though, at least not without some serious upgrades).

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    Windows 10 - Deeper Impressions

    in Windows 10

    Posted · Edited by cc333

    1 hour ago, JorgeA said:

    Guys, I advise against getting political. Not only is it OT, but it's the surest way to get this nice long thread to come to a screeching halt, either from "above" or from "below" -- or both.

    I know that here in the U.S. we're suffering through an unusually heated election cycle :rolleyes::puke:, but on MSFN that topic belongs (if anywhere) in the general subforum.

    Pleasepleaseplease, let's keep the thread on Microsoft and related tech issues! :)

    --JorgeA

    Understood. I wasn't trying to be political. I was just stating that NoelC's statement applied very nicely to the current election. I don't want this thread locked.

    I'm really not liking MS OR Apple at this point, and may switch to Linux if I have to (to that end, the distro that JorgA posted a screenshot of looks intriguing (and remarkably Vista-like). I'll have to look into it.)

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    Windows 10 - Deeper Impressions

    in Windows 10

    Posted

    17 minutes ago, NoelC said:

    Paraphrasing in my best K accent:

    A person is smart.  People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.  Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe.  Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes before the upgrade the Windows user couldn't imagine Microsoft could just fail like this.

    -Noel

    Well stated. I won't get too political, but the way people are supporting a certain republican candidate terrifies me, and this statement very aptly describes that as well I think.

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    Windows 10 - Deeper Impressions

    in Windows 10

    Posted · Edited by cc333

    I'm really disappointed by Microsoft on this one.

    I mean, really? That's such an obviously anti-competitive move on their part that it looks *really* bad, and what's worse is that nobody (beyond this forum) seems to be catching on to it, so far.

    And I don't mean this specific incident. It just serves as a convenient example of how this "new" Microsoft has become totally stupid (for all it's flaws, I like the "old" MS better, and even with all he did during his tenure as CEO, I think Bill Gates did a good job (for what it's worth, even Steve Ballmer did a better job of at least *attempting* to continue Gates' vision, although I found his handling of the Vista incident somewhat questionable). The new CEO seems to just want to copy Apple (which, granted, MS has done one way or another from the very beginning) and shove everything to "The Cloud", leaving us poor users with almost dumb terminals with ugly, difficult to use interfaces.

    With that, I have an older, low-budget laptop that I decided to do the "upgrade" on, and so far, I'm not totally impressed. The machine came with Windows 7, and can actually run XP with some work, but both run rings around 10! Not totally, unusably slow, but slow enough to be annoying (granted, it's not the fastest machine in the world, with an anemic single-core Celeron and 2 GB of RAM, so it's probably a bad example as it's not in its nature to be fast).

    So, I'll probably stick with XP and 7 on my main machines.

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    About AMD Drivers on Vista

    in Windows Vista

    Posted

    OK, this will be somewhat off topic, but I want to say it: how come everyone hates Vista so much (save for those few passionate users who found it perfect)? It received a lot of bad press during it's initial release, I'm sure because of MS' mishandling of the "Designed for Windows Vista" thing, but every time I've used it, I've found it to be very decent, and in many ways actually quite reminiscent of XP, and with the classic theme and classic start menu enabled, one can barely tell the difference unless they look really closely.

    The same is true of Windows ME. Anyone remember that? Whenever I've used it, I've found it also quite decent as OSes go, and when configured properly, it's even a bit better than 98 (which, along with 95, is my one of my favorite OSes in the 9x series).

    OK, got that out of my system now.

    Carry on... :)

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