November 27th, 2003, 10:30 PM
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Re: OT: Which is better: XP or 2000? > Another Piracy Discussion
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I disdain it because I don't like the proposed contract "you can install it on one machine only".
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That is how software has always been though... very few software packages are sold on a license that allows you to run them on multiple computers at once.
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The Search is still crap (annoying, clunky and doesn't always work, even once you kill the animated characters)
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It has always worked perfectly for me. I have never had it fail to find a file I was searching for before (unless that file didn't exist, of course). And, it is hardly clunky...
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Sorting files by date backwards - any way to fix that?
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Click the sort button for date again, and it reverses the order it sorts them.
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There is weird stuff going on with the "My ..." folders
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Get the power toys and you can disable ALL of those folders; just set them to whatever folder you want (even on other drives!) and it stops using them altogether. 
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The "you have some unused icons on your desktop" wizards.
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I don't recall ever seeing that. Can you elaborate?
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The further attempts to pretend like there is no DOS, thereby breaking some DOS program compatibility.
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There is nothing pretend about it. There simply is no DOS kernal in XP. Go get that FreeDos or whatever it was to have a nice Version of "DOS" running when you need it. Or make a Win98 partition to run those old DOS games. Very simply fix.
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The annoying features I haven't figured out yet how to exorcise from the new "Start Christmas tree".
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Just use the "Classic" start menu, and it is identical to the start menu in 2000 (and I think it is the same as in 98, but with the control panel stuff added, which is a good thing ).
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some accessibility wizards opened by pressing five times the caps key for example
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That is because you chose to set up the accessibility wizards when you installed the OS. Just remove them and that will stop.
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save option for hard drives which destroys Mozilla settings files,
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What? When did you ever get that to happen? I have never seen anything bad happen to my Mozilla files. Granted, I am using Firebird rather than the standard Mozilla, but it is the same basic thing.
[ November 27, 2003, 20:40: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ] |