****, i ****ing hate windows, i cannot put up with it anymore. WHY DOES IT ASUCK???? - Page 3

Okay

So you installed Xp Pro.

Once done before rushing online, install your motherboard drivers if it says reboot, then reboot...

install your video drivers then audio drivers.

Then goto control panel/admin/services ( if your not sure what you can/cant disable here then goto google.com and check up.

Disablng running tasks can save you lots of memory and processor power, and prevent hangs. Also check out system mechanic5 pro which has a startup guard which warns you when programs try to add into your startup ( bootup ) list which as bootup tasks increase startup time and run in systray taking up power...cancelling them out is a must. I just run msn messenger firewall usb devices and AV.

Next disable system restore 12mb ram regained and loads of disk space, far to many viruses live in restore spots...so end of that..prefer to format not patch up a dying system thankyou very much.

While in the right clicked my computer properties goto advanced then clicky on error reporting and disable that as well then look up at performance..clicky on settings there and configure for best performance..shockingly ( well not for mircrosoft ) your paging file is not managed by windows but givien some stupid limit..so while in performance clicky on advanced at top scroll down to virtual memory then clicky on change personally I have my own settings but a "safe" setting is to change it to windows setting, once you have done this ...restart the pc when it asks you too"

Once booted back up right click on desktop and remove your wallpaper ( that 500kb fancy 3d image is in your ram you know and has to be booted up) i mean how long are you eying that picture up and how long are you needing performance in your applications and games so off that goes.

Also right click on desktop once you closed display properties goto arrange icons by and click on remove desktop icons.

this saves even more loading time..and you can bring them back anytime by repeating the above.

Just a few tips there which help me keep a sweet running system

more info and a wicked site for tips hints and stuff to save you googling is here

clicky for help

I went through 2 college Unix courses running off of Red Hat 9. The first one was a basic course and the other one was a Unix administration course. Both sucked. Unix has more commands than MS-DOS ever did. I'll be darned if I didn't have to manually tell it to do everything. Took hours trying to figure out my assignments, that while on the surface seemed easy, but in the end were so complex it was like trying to solve a rubix cube colorblind.

Tasks from Hell:
1) Creating users
2) Setting permissions
3) Installing printers (and print devices) and then setting the permissions just so another user can print
4) Networking multiple computers in a multi-OS environment and then getting users from both OS's to access shared resources.

By the time I was done, I looked back on Active Directory and thanked MS for at least trying.

By the way, I found that XP and 2000 both become "unstable" after about 3 months or so. Small things like slow-downs, occassional program hang-ups and such. This is even with anti-viral, anti-spyware running daily. The registry, the hard drive, and the OS just becomes glutted with stuff that doesn't go away. Unistalls that leave files, registry entries and services behind after a program is gone, associations are lost, resources not being released properly, etc.

i dont know what u guys do with ur XP installations. i used to have all kinds of problems, but i thin kthat's cuz there were problems with my hardware. since owning my notebook, i've had to format twice. first was when i got it, second was after sending it in for repairs cuz when it came back to me stuff was broken.

XP has NEVER, i repeat NEVER crashed on me after the second format, and i dont recall the first format crashing on me. I am REALLY impressed with XP.

TWEAK IT UP well worth it

OMFG!

All you Linux bashers that are complaining about Linux being to complicated or having too many commands are completely missing what Linux is!

Linux wasn't meant to be easy, it wasn't meant to be point and click, it was meant to unlock the full power of you hardware by providing and open system architecture that gives YOU the user COMPLETE access to EVERYTHING your hardware is capable of. With increase control come complexity. IE. The more beer drink the drunker you get!

If you want easy get Microsoft, but realize you loose some control. If you want control be prepared to accept the responsability of learning the damn system! It hasn't been until recently that the Linux community has really cared about usability, most likely due to the lower market share. As Linux gain market share its usability increases. Its completely retarded to expect Linux to be like Windows. Why? One (MS) is a cluge of technologies that has had generation after generation of patches applied and incorporated to its source. The other has been developed by geeks for geeks and while anyone can submit code revisions, only those that meet the strict standards of the community are incorporated into the Kernal. Beyond that it is possible to remove/add/edit chunks of the Kernel to suit your needs. There will likely NEVER be a MS OS that gives you the type of control over system that Linux does.

Learn it or leave it, but don't dis it because you don't get it.

Which service pack of AutoDesk Architectural Studio do you have installed?

Another good example is the difference between say imovie and Adobe Premiere Pro.

Try completeley removing SP2. Go back to SP1 - I had a bunch of issues with it inlcuding conflicts with various software. Just in the end the secuirty wasn't worth it and I'm currently patiently waiting for a new release of SP2. Worth a try, right?!

All this talk about crashing made me stop and think, and I realized something...I haven't seen a BSOD on my desktop since i can remember...and thats at least a couple years of >6 hrs a day usage.
Don't know if i owe it to xp-pro or ecc ram, but I've had a more stable setup on this comp than any i've ever used before, including unix based systems back at school (Irix based actually but whatever).
I'm always tempted to try linux, but until i can get the "free trial version" of stuff like Maya, Shake, PS, AE, XSI, etc. for linux, i'll stick with the xp.

At one point i was all into trying new OS's and tweaking everything under sun, but now i guess im getting older. I want to plug something in and i want ti to work, i dont want to spend a few hours trying to get everything congured correctly.

XP may not be the best thing since sliced jesus, but if you do alot of gaming it is impossible to beat.

If your sister's mac is crashing on the latest version of X, chances are there's a hardware problem. If you have an Apple store near you, take it down there and get it checked out.

I love gentoo which is based on debian, I've installed both. And yeah that was damn near hell. But once they were installed it was worth it. Those OS's are true Linux immersion. But in the end I run windows XP and deal with it. Mainly because I can't get a linux version that will run launch.yahoo and I hate rebooting to switch OS's. Dumb reason to give in to MS I know.