OT: Which is better: XP or 2000? > Another Piracy Discussion

[Fyron]

I disdain it because I don't like the proposed contract "you can install it on one machine only".

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.

The Search is still crap (annoying, clunky and doesn't always work, even once you kill the animated characters)

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...

Sorting files by date backwards - any way to fix that?

Click the sort button for date again, and it reverses the order it sorts them.

There is weird stuff going on with the "My ..." folders

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.

The "you have some unused icons on your desktop" wizards.

I don't recall ever seeing that. Can you elaborate?

The further attempts to pretend like there is no DOS, thereby breaking some DOS program compatibility.

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.

The annoying features I haven't figured out yet how to exorcise from the new "Start Christmas tree".

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 ).

some accessibility wizards opened by pressing five times the caps key for example

That is because you chose to set up the accessibility wizards when you installed the OS. Just remove them and that will stop.

save option for hard drives which destroys Mozilla settings files,

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 ]