Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is one of the things that pisses me off about windows. As in why is this necessary?? It would be real nice if Windoes could clean itself up without me having to go through the insane amount of time needed to reinstall all my drivers and software.

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ah spoken by someone who has never used WinMe I bet. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif I despise MS with a passion mostly I think because I'm blessed with WinMe at home and at work (untill just recently) If any other company produced a product that flawed they would recall it or fix it. And yea I know I could upgrade to XP but I resent the hell out of having to pay $150Can to fix the flawed piece of crap I've already paid for.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I agree, WinME sucks, never used it, and I am the happier for it. I have used Linux, so I have something to compare things to. Linux is nice, it works, but hardware support is iffy. I hear about compatibility problems too. If you get a free distro, then when you need tech support, who do you call? Sure, Linux support Groups exist, but if you need an answer fast, it may not be what you want.

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is one of the things that pisses me off about windows. As in why is this necessary?? It would be real nice if Windoes could clean itself up without me having to go through the insane amount of time needed to reinstall all my drivers and software.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Basically, the process of installing and uninstalling software can mess the registry up. Windows does need better support of this (such as allowing defragging the registry by the built in defragger). If the registry gets wrecked, you'll need to go back to a save point or maybe reinstall everything. I do not know of many registry fixing programs, Windows could use a better utility for it though.

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Doh! Official MS site. Doesn't seem to be anything very interesting there.

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?
 

Powertoys rule! Check them out.

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I will second that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is one of the things that pisses me off about windows. As in why is this necessary?? It would be real nice if Windoes could clean itself up without me having to go through the insane amount of time needed to reinstall all my drivers and software.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Basically, the process of installing and uninstalling software can mess the registry up. Windows does need better support of this (such as allowing defragging the registry by the built in defragger). If the registry gets wrecked, you'll need to go back to a save point or maybe reinstall everything. I do not know of many registry fixing programs, Windows could use a better utility for it though.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I do repairs all the time. Usually the problems are caused by unapproved software installed by the PITA’s. And the registry is easy to repair in the NT Versions of windows. 9x is not so easy to repair, but can be fixed most of the time. Many 9x problems relate to the installer that came with them. There was a work around for it, but few people took the time to install programs correctly. Now there is a new installer that fixes the problem.

[ September 24, 2003, 12:29: Message edited by: Thermodyne ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Doh! Official MS site. Doesn't seem to be anything very interesting there.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Don't knock it till you try it. Most of it was writen by third parties. Tweak UI will give you access to a lot of setting that Users seldom see.

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I will second that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">They do seem interesting, but they seem to be, well, toys, more for coolness and fun than anything else. I was thinking more along the lines of sites like this:

http://www.tweakxp.com/

and this:

http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/winxp...es/index.shtml

Re: OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?
 

Here's what seems a related topic Reuters Link. What I thought interesting was that towards the end of the article they recommend running a mix of systems at a company or agency. How are they going to be able to do that and still use this personal encryption thingy that you can only get from MS mentioned in the original article? Sounds like some kind of Catch-22. But then again this topic started off outside my area of expertise and kept going. Still, I am appreciating the insight and devirsity of responses.