Well, really not that much difference except that half my add-ons are incompatable now. That and the reply box here is unresponsive except for those fucking annoying moving smilie pages and it won't even let me use those. Unbelieveable. I guess I'll be posting even less 'cause it's too much bullshit for my antiques to run.
Pfft, Recovery to day one? Oh hell yea, I rode that horse. Back to Straight 8 for me. At least I can actually use this thing here again.
Mini has the same problem this one had with the text box. Can't change it back either. Guess I won't be posting from this one. Figures I'd install the 64 on it and find it needed the 32 on it.
Screen resolution too small to accommodate the apps? Regedit... Search.... 0 to 1.... There. Edit: Still can't post from it though.
If you're going for the write off pick up a laptop with Windows 7, if you're only using it for writing, surfing, and email you can get something decent in the $350 - 400 range.
Probably the last version of Windows that I loved. From the introduction of XP onward, I've become less and less of an OS fetishist. Now I find myself easily shifting from platform to platform, because I don't much care what's under the hood, and I mostly use web apps.
Given that all the car makers have dusted off their old designs and tweaked them, and games which mimic the look and sound of old 8-bit games are gaining in popularity, how long will it be before OS makers decide they need to do something similar?
Interesting. Just had a band across the middle appear that forced me to the MS store app trying to force 8.1. Couldn't do anything else and had to hard boot it to get out of it. Starting to think a Mac might have been a better choice.
Update: Based on the advice here, I’ve upgraded to Windows 7. Quick review: Yeah, things look shinier than in XP, and everything’s pretty much in the same place as it was in XP, but – hard to describe – there seems to be an extra layer of “busyness” about some functions, particularly in how it interacts with Word 2010. Best way I can describe it is, something that could be done with one click in XP now needs two clicks. Minor annoyance, but I’ll adjust. And I can stave off Win8 for a few more years, so there’s that. Bah.
Some quick things. Everything on the taskbar now has a right-click "recent", menu. that's handy. Everything you run also has a right-click "pin this to the taskbar", option. A much easier way to build up your favorite programs than creating an icon from scratch. The lower right hand corner makes everything turn transparent, and clicking it closes all windows. Nice smooth way to get all the crap out of your face to get at the desktop. Start menu has a search for finding all your junk. Windows explorer is always right there for you.
Since I'm 100% Apple at home, my experience with WinDoze is all at work. We've just upgraded from WinXP to Win7. Yes, just last week. No, I'm not kidding. Anyway, Win7 seems decent enough so far, altho MS did the "let's rearrange shit that's been in the same place for ten years!" trick that annoys me to no fucking end. Nothing too startling or difficult, tho I'm getting some interesting new errors/crashes that I didn't used to get. The flip side of which, of course, is that I'm not getting errors/crashes that I used to. So it's okay. Meh. Still wouldn't have a WinDoze-based machine at home when the Apple OS is so much cleaner and more stable.
Amazing how two people can review the identical program and arrive at completely opposite assessments...
I seriously haven't found this to be the case since Win 95c, with a bump here and there along the way (Win ME!!!!). I use both OSes and I find them to be equally as stable and clean, especially when paired with decent hardware. Still prefer Windows by and far, but I've had my share of problems with some Macs as I've had with some PCs. I still find that Apple nickle and dimes you to death more often, even after spending the extra dough to have the brand. But that is changing for the better I see with their more recent OS updates. Though, it's hard to sometimes reason with people who still call it "WinDoze" or "Crapple".
Bah. Forget all that. Get Launchy. I would say "Get Alfred." but you persist, for some reason, in using Windows.
So the answer to increased layers of stuff between the user and the work is to add another layer of stuff...
You remember that scene in "Tomorrow Never Dies" where they were talking about the problems with the new software they were about to release? That part of the movie wasn't fiction.
Yeah, no thanks. I actually think more like a computer than a person, so things like that actually slow me down.
"Added it back" being the key concept here. Was it GeekThink ("Hey, wouldn't it be kewl to just like leave off the Start button this time?") or just Technosnobbery ("I mean like nobody uses an actual desktop computer anymore") that formed the basis for the decision to remove it in the first place?
