It's windows. they don't support the cool keyboards without drivers. Same goes with mice. Get more than two buttons and you need special software. don't forget the new tray icons, desktop shortcuts(cause we all need shortcuts on the desktop to keyboard settings) auto updater that runs as admin and interferes with hibernation mode.
1998 called. They want their complaint back.
Seriously, though, XP supports 5-button mice and out of the box. Not sure about keyboards (I use Vista 64-bit now, which supports most of this cheap keyboards extra buttons out of the box).
Well, when I went to XP...and whenever I get a new XP box, I immediately change everything to 'classic' look. I have to go in and set the windows explorer (why do they keep trying to hide this? ) to where it shows file extensions, file pathes....and usually the detailed view. I personally like to see my file types, I like to see system files, etc.
I also have to set the start menu to show ALL my programs...I hate the 'personalized' menus. I like to see everything I have on there.
I've heard it is difficult to get this 'look' in Vista and I'm guessing on Win7....how about those items?
It's actually rather easy... the first requires right-click the desktop, choose Personalize, choose Theme, and choose the Windows Classic theme, then click OK.
Once it's in Windows Classic mode, all the settings are located in the same places they are in XP.
I like to see the tree view of my file system, I work from that to find my files, etc. I try to organize my files on that tree, so if I have that view, I can easily find what I'm needing at any given time.
Like the Folders option in XP? It's always on now, but all but common folders are hidden by default. Click Folders in the bottom-left of an explorer window to show it.
Of course, when one product is being sold for $99+ a pop, it's hard to get people to buy it every year or two without some sort of reality distortion field.
I know Microsoft said that Windows 7 Beta to Windows 7 Final requires a clean install (or rollback to a previous version), but that's the only upgrade I saw them comment on. Care to cite a source for the quote above?
It's not always obvious when an account is a shill on twitter.
For instance, did you know that the twitter account memcached is a shill for a company named Gear6 rather than an official twitter by the memcached team or Danga Interactive's owner, Sixapart?
What is your opinion on abandonware games? A lot of people share old ROMS of games online - games just like these books, in that no one knows who owns them, or if they DO know who owns them, the owners don't support them, and have no intentions of producing them.
What once was old is new again... these companies are starting to sell old games again, through systems like Nintendo's Virtual Console (Wii), Steam (Windows), GOG (Windows), or GameTap (Windows 32-bit).
I won't go into other details of their behavior like what happened with OS/2, Stac, DR-DOS, Netscape, but Microsoft has a pattern of stealing other people's work.
Given that Microsoft was working with IBM on OS/2 makes that incident a related, but subtly different, behavioral problem.
Of course Windows damn well knows automatically when a floppy is inserted... The number of times I had to remove a floppy from my mom's non-booting PC is probably higher than the number of bytes in Wikipedia's servers.
Congratulations on not reading the article or summary.
First, this feature was talking about checking if a disk is present without spinning up the disk. To boot from a floppy, a computer spins up the disk and looks for a boot sector. Second, that would be the BIOS, not Windows, checking the floppy during the boot process. It checks the devices in the order it's set to. Back in the mid 90s, this was generally floppy, then IDE, then SCSI. A few people with good hardware had CD-ROM in there, too.
The article's author, Raymond Chen, posted a follow-up article to the one linked in the summary that answers some of the questions people had about it. Why that didn't make it into the summary, I don't know.
I dunno what it removes other than iexplore.exe, but it at least removes the application.
Unfortunately, it can't remove mshtml.dll, because it's the basis of embedded IE, which has been available on Windows for the past decade.
In other words, a number of programs rely on mshtml.dll, including things like Valve's Steam game distribution system and the various Symantec products.
Hey, maybe people have a reason to use MySQL - a product that only supports that db, or developers who aren't particularly familiar with what relational databases are supposed to be like.
I don't know why this is marked as Funny... there are far too many programs or even webapps (PHP ones in particular) that only work with MySQL.
I think the GP's point was that the file on MS's site is a trial version and that MS Express Web, the product that this is going to be part of, is decidedly not free.
They glossed over Linux on this question, but I suspect Vista SP1 is probably more secure than linux too 'out of the box'... but again less safe in actual practice. Again simply due to the sheer relative volume of malware and the relative high value of windows exploits to linux ones.
And the sheer amount of users who are trained to click OK at every dialog.
Which is half of the reason why UAC is, on the whole, a failure.
(The other half being that certain actions have too multiple prompts)
Uh, I think you're quite wrong there. I know more than a few Grandmas running Linux. The thing is, they're the ones that usually need the least amount of software. A browser, maybe e-mail if they don't do it in a browser, that's about it. Linux is perfect.
Only until your mom, aunt, or great aunt gives them a copy of some Popcap (or really any casual) game and it won't run.
I agree. One time when I was cleaning malware off of a neighbors computer (wasn't my idea, I got volunteered by someone else in my household), the NX bit kept one of those annoying fake antivirus ones from reinstalling itself when I had Procmon kill its process. At least I think it was Procmon.
Anyway, Windows came up with a nice dialog box telling me that execution was blocked, and it didn't appear to be running after a reboot.
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1998 called. They want their complaint back.
Seriously, though, XP supports 5-button mice and out of the box. Not sure about keyboards (I use Vista 64-bit now, which supports most of this cheap keyboards extra buttons out of the box).
If they're afraid of CLIT, are they also afraid of Windows Oracle Machine Entry Nodes?
It's actually rather easy... the first requires right-click the desktop, choose Personalize, choose Theme, and choose the Windows Classic theme, then click OK.
Once it's in Windows Classic mode, all the settings are located in the same places they are in XP.
Like the Folders option in XP? It's always on now, but all but common folders are hidden by default. Click Folders in the bottom-left of an explorer window to show it.
Of course, when one product is being sold for $99+ a pop, it's hard to get people to buy it every year or two without some sort of reality distortion field.
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I know Microsoft said that Windows 7 Beta to Windows 7 Final requires a clean install (or rollback to a previous version), but that's the only upgrade I saw them comment on. Care to cite a source for the quote above?
It's not always obvious when an account is a shill on twitter.
For instance, did you know that the twitter account memcached is a shill for a company named Gear6 rather than an official twitter by the memcached team or Danga Interactive's owner, Sixapart?
That's no egg, it's a space station!
What once was old is new again... these companies are starting to sell old games again, through systems like Nintendo's Virtual Console (Wii), Steam (Windows), GOG (Windows), or GameTap (Windows 32-bit).
So, according to your signature, you're saying he invented a device to cause an earthquake, but didn't take into account a long startup time?
B) That's not the only bug, going over 255 lives will make the game end.
With a name like Moblin, I thought they'd have Nintendo host it.
Given that Microsoft was working with IBM on OS/2 makes that incident a related, but subtly different, behavioral problem.
Congratulations on not reading the article or summary.
First, this feature was talking about checking if a disk is present without spinning up the disk. To boot from a floppy, a computer spins up the disk and looks for a boot sector.
Second, that would be the BIOS, not Windows, checking the floppy during the boot process. It checks the devices in the order it's set to. Back in the mid 90s, this was generally floppy, then IDE, then SCSI. A few people with good hardware had CD-ROM in there, too.
The article's author, Raymond Chen, posted a follow-up article to the one linked in the summary that answers some of the questions people had about it. Why that didn't make it into the summary, I don't know.
Assuming that you actually meant "behind the scenes the first time a floppy is accessed" and never do it aagain...
The article's author (Raymond Chen) addressed that in his follow-up article, posted yesterday.
Hey, will you also release a version for the Android phones? After all, those are even easier to integrate with Google stuff!
I dunno what it removes other than iexplore.exe, but it at least removes the application.
Unfortunately, it can't remove mshtml.dll, because it's the basis of embedded IE, which has been available on Windows for the past decade.
In other words, a number of programs rely on mshtml.dll, including things like Valve's Steam game distribution system and the various Symantec products.
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Hey, maybe people have a reason to use MySQL - a product that only supports that db, or developers who aren't particularly familiar with what relational databases are supposed to be like.
I don't know why this is marked as Funny... there are far too many programs or even webapps (PHP ones in particular) that only work with MySQL.
Don't tase me, man!
I think the GP's point was that the file on MS's site is a trial version and that MS Express Web, the product that this is going to be part of, is decidedly not free.
And the sheer amount of users who are trained to click OK at every dialog.
Which is half of the reason why UAC is, on the whole, a failure.
(The other half being that certain actions have too multiple prompts)
Only until your mom, aunt, or great aunt gives them a copy of some Popcap (or really any casual) game and it won't run.
I agree. One time when I was cleaning malware off of a neighbors computer (wasn't my idea, I got volunteered by someone else in my household), the NX bit kept one of those annoying fake antivirus ones from reinstalling itself when I had Procmon kill its process. At least I think it was Procmon.
Anyway, Windows came up with a nice dialog box telling me that execution was blocked, and it didn't appear to be running after a reboot.
~Here he comes, here comes Tux Racer, he's a penguin on wheels.~
I dunno why, but that suddenly popped into my head.