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Windows VISTA - Do these customers have SUCKER written on their forehead?
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Quoth sld72382 View PostYou know that Weatherbug is classified as spyware, right?...WHY DO YOU TEMPT WHAT LITTLE FAITH IN HUMANITY I HAVE!?! -- Kalga
And I want a pony for Christmas but neither of us is getting what we want OK! What you are asking is impossible. -- Wicked Lexi
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Weatherbug miffed at Microsoft's Spyware classification
I think, at one time, it had some crap bundled with it. I don't think I've seen that recently.SC: “Yeah, Bob’s Company. I'm Bob. It's my company.” - GK
SuperHotelWorker made my Avi!!
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Quoth technical.angel View PostI think, at one time, it had some crap bundled with it. I don't think I've seen that recently.Last edited by JustADude; 05-25-2007, 06:26 AM....WHY DO YOU TEMPT WHAT LITTLE FAITH IN HUMANITY I HAVE!?! -- Kalga
And I want a pony for Christmas but neither of us is getting what we want OK! What you are asking is impossible. -- Wicked Lexi
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Oh what fresh hell is this. Vista doesn't work with our service and we don't support it yet. We don't have it yet, I've never worked with it. But I"m not supposed to support Vista users in trying to get it running. I didn't design Vista I can't magically make it work with our system. GAH this is killing my inner Mac user."If all else fails...blame the dog"
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I really can't say much about Vista myself, as I never really used it other than the time my son and I were playing around with one of the display machines at Circuit City, but from what little bit I've seen and heard, I'm not really impressed. From what I've seen from playing around with that machine, and from what I've heard, it sounds like it's more eye candy than anything else. I have no desire to plunk down another $100 or more just for something that looks pretty, especially when XP works just fine.
Besides, I've never been one to run out and buy the newest OS. I only do it if I think it's going to offer improvement, and even then I've never bought one less than a year after it came out.
I upgraded to 95 from 3.11 because, well it was 3.11. Anyone who's used it will understand what I mean.
I didn't really see a whole lot of difference between 95 and 98, but ended up with 98 when I had someone build a new machine to replace my old POS Packard Bell (I didn't know any better when I bought that one.)
I never had ME, but saw just how buggy and unstable it was when I worked on someone else's machine. I swear, the damn thing crashed several times when I tried to reinstall it. That was enough to kill of any ideas I might have had about buying it. Besides, it didn't seem like any kind of improvement over 98 even if it did work right.
I bought XP after it had been out about 2 years, because I figured 98's life cycle was probably coming to an end. That, and I had upgraded my hardware and found that 98 runs like shit if you have too much memory. It worked fine with 256MB, but with 512 it would work OK at first, but then gradually start crawling, until you had to reboot it. With XP, it worked great, and even better when I increased to 1GB, and 2GB later.Sometimes life is altered.
Break from the ropes your hands are tied.
Uneasy with confrontation.
Won't turn out right. Can't turn out right
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Quoth MadMike View PostI upgraded to 95 from 3.11 because, well it was 3.11. Anyone who's used it will understand what I mean.
Quoth sld72382 View PostI'll believe AWS when CounterSpy and A-squared quit finding it as threats.Last edited by JustADude; 05-25-2007, 09:23 PM....WHY DO YOU TEMPT WHAT LITTLE FAITH IN HUMANITY I HAVE!?! -- Kalga
And I want a pony for Christmas but neither of us is getting what we want OK! What you are asking is impossible. -- Wicked Lexi
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Quoth JustADude View Post...or the fact that it was actually a GUI shell with additional command functions that had to boot inside a DOS environment...I suspect that... inside every adult (sometimes not very far inside) is a bratty kid who wants everything his own way.
- Bill Watterson
My co-workers: They're there when they need me.
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Quoth Naaman View PostYou can transfer the entire WoW folder to a backup device (an external Hard Drive for preference*) and chuck it back to c:\Program Files after re-install. The updater may fix a few minor files but most of your configuration data is held in .lua files within the folder
* I tried a couple of weeks ago to fit the folder on my 8GB USB key - no such luck and they've just had another 325MB patch
I am familiar with Vista, XP, and 2000. I must say that Vista is nice enough, but it takes a little getting used to. At least Vista doesn't have that stupid SVCHost error that XP is prone to. But yeah, it's pretty much eyecandy. I want to put it on my desktop, but I'll wait til I can get a free/cheap copy of it. I'm not dishing out that much money for it. I do have it on my tablet laptop, and I wish I didn't. The laptop has 1gb ram, and Vista takes up half of it running *nothing*. I'll reformat it one of these days...
But overall, Vista isn't bad. I think it's easier for people who aren't used to Windows or who aren't good with computers, but for techies that are used to fixing software or configuration problems in earlier versions of Windows, it's a pain in the rear to figure out where they moved our techie stuff around to!
Oh, and I can't stand Office 2k7. I know it's supposed to be more user friendly, but it looks so cluttered that I can't stand it. I'm shuddering right now thinking of the people that we support at my job demanding the upgrade, then asking us how it works and getting mad when we won't help them. We fix software, we don't teach it.Jim: Fact: Bears eat beets. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Gallactica.
Dwight: Bears don't eat bee... Hey! What are you doing?
The Office
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I've been tricked into being an early adapter of Vista here at work. (Hey, I got a new computer out of it). Dual boot of Vista and XP. I'm playing it safe and storing all my files on the XP drive.
I'm... slowly getting used to it. More software worked on it than I thought would.
Of course, of all the software that could NOT work, our work order software didn't work. So, now I have an excuse to have my work laptop up. (The one with Sims 2 installed :: evil grin :SC: “Yeah, Bob’s Company. I'm Bob. It's my company.” - GK
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Just FYI, for those early adopters like me who want to run Vista for other reasons but can't get work software to work on it (but worked on XP), try installing your license of XP INSIDE Vista as a Virtual Machine. You can use VirtualPC from Microsoft....it's free.
This way you get all the benefits of running Vista (don't laugh, there are some) and you can still do your work in XP without the mess of dual booting...and you can use both XP and Vista at the same time this way.
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Quoth Shabo View PostBest part about this is it saves all of your mods!!! Yay! (For a druid that carries around 3 full sets of gear, it is a pain to have to reconfigure my wardrobe add-on)Lady, people aren't chocolates. D'you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling. Dr Cox - Scrubs
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Quoth Naaman View PostPfftt - get a Hunter. All you really need is an aggro monitor and Fizwidgets tracking toolJim: Fact: Bears eat beets. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Gallactica.
Dwight: Bears don't eat bee... Hey! What are you doing?
The Office
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