Scratch that -- I understand now you were referring to the quick menu/quick launch menu in XP instead of the search bar that Windows 8 brings up when typing Win+q. Color me retarded.
Couldn't you just hit the "Windows" key & type "n" for notepad? Since Windows 8 defaults to a search for the letters entered while at the Start screen, typing "n" should yield the same results as your way.
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I've heard it pronounced both ways, and both Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=niche and Merriam-Webster online verified that they are both correct. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/niche will even give you a pronounciation in audio form to verify that it's pronounced both ways, along with the phonetic spelling of the word, also both ways.
From what I understand, the guest/host requirements and capabilities are the same between the VMWare Server beta and the current release of VMWare Workstation (5.5). It's not possible to virtualize a 64bit CPU on a 32bit CPU.
It is, however, possible to run a 64bit guest OS on a 32bit host OS if the underlying CPU is 64bit, but if both the host OS and host CPU are 32bit, then the guest OS invariably can only be 32 bit.
Yes you can, just right click on the taskbar and select "Undo Tile". I'm sure it works on other versions, but I only have Windows XP installed, so that's all I can speak of.
In my default settings for both Windows 2000 and XP, even before the recent SP3 and SP4 for 2000 and SP1 and SP2 for XP, Internet Explorer has always prompted me if I would like to install the ActiveX control. Always - and it has always been on default settings as well.
Check your settings, because there's something wrong there, or you accidentally hit the spacebar or Enter or hit Yes without reading the dialog box that pop ups.
A new eMachine PC is $599, and you get an AMD 3200+ processor, 512 MB RAM, 160 GB HD, DVD +/- RW drive. Granted you get a GeForce4 MX integrated GPU, but comparing this to a 1.25 G4 I'd say you get double the perfomance for less money.
Windows Messenger doesn't allow any viruses or spyware in. It's simply a built in messaging utility for network use, and also works accross the internet that in this case has been exploited for advertisements. Go to your cmd prompt, type "net send x.x.x.x "message" " (where x.x.x.x is the ip number and "message" is the message you want to send, and it will send that message to whatever computer has that IP address (assuming they have Messenger service enabled.
Finally, Windows keeps the lame-ass process hanging around like an ex-girlfriend until I close my browser!
You're in for a surprise if you really think that. When you open a PDF file using the standalone reader, it will close when you close the program. However, as a plugin, once you close that window or go back to browsing the net, Acrobat32.exe will stay in memory and will not close. The only way to close it is to either open another PDF file with the standalone reader and exit it, or kill the process in task manager.
There wouldn't be any chance that you have left VSync enabled on Windows (enabled by default), is there? It is not logical for there to be such a huge difference between Windows and Linux in that game, and there's a good chance that's what causing it.
I'll still give you the benefit of a doubt though...
From this article on GameSpy.com, mainly on the 2nd page (sorry html ignorant) - http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/january01/blac kisle/index.shtm - "Black Isle Studios: We are not BioWare"
Bioware - Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 Black Isle - Planetscape Torment and Icewind Dale 1 and 2
"After Baldur's Gate was finished, BioWare then began work on Baldur's Gate 2, and another team at Black Isle began on Icewind Dale. BioWare used some of the functionality that was created for Torment by Black Isle, but not a great deal. However, with Icewind we chose to use the Baldur's Gate 2 code and bring in modifications to it that we had created for Torment. It all gets kind of convoluted, but the best way to look at it is that almost all of the code that is in the Baldur's Gate series was developed by BioWare with Black Isle contributing some code that we developed for Torment and Icewind Dale."
Chances are the brushed metal theme is probably the Visual Style that the person that took the screenshots has applied, and not the default look.
MS would not like to be seen as a copycat company, which is why they would not want to have a skin in Internet Explorer/Windows that mimics that of Apple's brushed metal theme.
Speaking of the built-in popup blocker; in the brief time i tested SP2, it did a good job blocking the ads (no reason why it wouldn't I guess) but I still prefer to stick to Pop-Up Cop, which can turn off a variety of IE annoyances, such as those damned "eyelets" that play embedded in webpages without a third party media player, (I wanna say they're Flash based.) as well as automatic window resizing, automatic scripts/events, Flash autoplay etc...
An MCSE friend of mine told me that originally Microsoft said that NTFS would not need defragmenting which is why NT 3.51 and I think 4.0 do not include built-in defragmenters. Obviously, since Win 2000 does have diskeeper in it, that didn't prove to be the truth. However it is still less susceptible to fragmenting than FAT. So in respect to fragmentation, NTFS is an improvements over FAT, but it didn't completely solve the problem. I've still to look over how the ext3 Linux filesystem gets away without the need to defragment.
Your post would be more convincing if what you posted wasn't mostly bullshit or big exaggerations.
Every single version of Windows has been an improvement in stability, as well as continued increasing support for new technologies and new multimedia features. (except for ME, what the hell was that?) For some, those are worthy of an upgrade for some they aren't. Windows 2000 was more pricey than Windows 98, as it was meant for a business environment, but I used it at home and I loved the stability over 98. Similarly, this is what happened with '98 over '95, but not quite as huge.
Windows XP for me is a good blend of stability as well as features and compatability. I rarely have crashes/bsod/reboots even though I have my computer heavily overclocked, which can only lead to instability problems, and the current level of stability, it is quite acceptable. If I wasn't installing software often and have a large number of software and games installed over the past 5 months since I reinstalled Windows (... family killed it with spyware/viruses) I wouldn't even reboot the weekly/bi-weekly times I do now. My mouse has been acting funny for over a month now... I wonder if it's my overclock, or my mouse dying.
You don't have to run adware programs in Windows if you don't install programs that install these without your knowledge. It's the same with Linux if some program were to decide to install spyware with itself. Linux is not immune, just not as widely used or as profitable a target for spyware.
As for defragging, if I understand correctly, one of the newer file systems (efx3 or ef3 or something like that) does not need to be defragged and that's a "plus". I did read recently, however, that defragmenting is pretty much worthless because the performance gain is negligeble and not noticeable. I still defrag, but not as often as I used to - I can't remember what website it was that I read that on, but something to keep in mind... and perhaps submit on Slashdot so we can have a discussion around the topic of defragging.
With XP it seems like I have to click 8 more times than I used to with earlier versions of Windows just to get the same thing done. XP loves to show you all the crap you can do which is fine for joe average but it sucks when you already know how to use a computer. I don't want a whole bunch of worthless options cluttering the interface when I know what I want to do. They make the easy stuff easier to do and the difficult stuff damn near impossible, or at least a major headache.
I can't think of any feature other than the Control Panel new view (as opposed to Classic view,... just another "click" to fix) that require a whole lot more steps to do. As more features are added to the OS, there will inevitably be more steps to achieve the same result, and I don't think it's as big a problem as you make it sound.
Then you have to worry about the aging affect. Every Windows version I have ever used (3.1, 3.11, NT4.0, Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2000, WinXP) has gotten more unstable over time. It's a pain in the ass to have to deal with and eventually you just have to reinstall.
That's because of crappy software that doesn't uninstall properly or that installs programs as services that startup automatically and also add programs to Windows Startup folder/registry... mostly
I'll agree with you though, every installation of Windows that I've used (from 95, to 98, to 2000 and now XP) has become unstable or slow (to use or boot), or unresponsive and takes ages to load the desktop even though I've disabled most every startup program other than the bare neccessities. I think the OS should do more to stop crappy behavior and install routines from app installs that leave crap behind, but it's also programmers' faults.
Anything like this 3d-desktop (in development apparently) that's available for Windows (XP)?
It seems really cool - mainly for novelty value, and also because I don't like using virtual desktops because it seems like such a pain remembering what window is where and switching back and forth. At least for me it's very unpractical, but some would say they couldn't live without it.
The voting would still be anonymous up until the point that the voter demands to verify his vote.
Even then, if the voter wants to verify his vote with his receipt, it can still be done electronically with no identifiable user information being neccessary to be entered. Electronically meaning in a separate database than the e-voting system, one that is entered by hand through workers.
How about barcoding them?
awww come on, I thought it was obvious that I was being very sarcastic in response to the parent post. I didn't assume they sourced it off one machine, but rather the parent poster did...
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Scratch that -- I understand now you were referring to the quick menu/quick launch menu in XP instead of the search bar that Windows 8 brings up when typing Win+q. Color me retarded.
Couldn't you just hit the "Windows" key & type "n" for notepad? Since Windows 8 defaults to a search for the letters entered while at the Start screen, typing "n" should yield the same results as your way.
I've heard it pronounced both ways, and both Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=niche and Merriam-Webster online verified that they are both correct. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/niche will even give you a pronounciation in audio form to verify that it's pronounced both ways, along with the phonetic spelling of the word, also both ways.
From what I understand, the guest/host requirements and capabilities are the same between the VMWare Server beta and the current release of VMWare Workstation (5.5). It's not possible to virtualize a 64bit CPU on a 32bit CPU.
It is, however, possible to run a 64bit guest OS on a 32bit host OS if the underlying CPU is 64bit, but if both the host OS and host CPU are 32bit, then the guest OS invariably can only be 32 bit.
This isn't true, as I just tried it. I'm using Office 2003 running on Windows XP, and I got an "Open With" program selection dialog.
How can you get higher resoultions when the game itself is limited to 640x480? Does the wrapper itself force a higher resolution for the game?
I know you can play with a PSX emulator and use the emulator to increase the resolution, but as far as the PC version goes, it's hardcoded isn't it?
I'd be interested if you could post furthre info.
Yes you can, just right click on the taskbar and select "Undo Tile". I'm sure it works on other versions, but I only have Windows XP installed, so that's all I can speak of.
Because Cedega doesn't run all games made for Windows, and Windows... does.
In my default settings for both Windows 2000 and XP, even before the recent SP3 and SP4 for 2000 and SP1 and SP2 for XP, Internet Explorer has always prompted me if I would like to install the ActiveX control. Always - and it has always been on default settings as well.
Check your settings, because there's something wrong there, or you accidentally hit the spacebar or Enter or hit Yes without reading the dialog box that pop ups.
That's the fact the parent was talking about.
A new eMachine PC is $599, and you get an AMD 3200+ processor, 512 MB RAM, 160 GB HD, DVD +/- RW drive. Granted you get a GeForce4 MX integrated GPU, but comparing this to a 1.25 G4 I'd say you get double the perfomance for less money.
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You can find it at http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?p
and considering that both Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware allow real time scanning and spyware blocking, tell me again why Spysweep does a better job?
Windows Messenger doesn't allow any viruses or spyware in. It's simply a built in messaging utility for network use, and also works accross the internet that in this case has been exploited for advertisements. Go to your cmd prompt, type "net send x.x.x.x "message" " (where x.x.x.x is the ip number and "message" is the message you want to send, and it will send that message to whatever computer has that IP address (assuming they have Messenger service enabled.
Finally, Windows keeps the lame-ass process hanging around like an ex-girlfriend until I close my browser!
You're in for a surprise if you really think that. When you open a PDF file using the standalone reader, it will close when you close the program. However, as a plugin, once you close that window or go back to browsing the net, Acrobat32.exe will stay in memory and will not close. The only way to close it is to either open another PDF file with the standalone reader and exit it, or kill the process in task manager.
There wouldn't be any chance that you have left VSync enabled on Windows (enabled by default), is there? It is not logical for there to be such a huge difference between Windows and Linux in that game, and there's a good chance that's what causing it.
I'll still give you the benefit of a doubt though...
You are actually confusing the two.
c kisle/index.shtm - "Black Isle Studios: We are not BioWare"
From this article on GameSpy.com, mainly on the 2nd page (sorry html ignorant) - http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/january01/bla
Bioware - Baldur's Gate 1 and 2
Black Isle - Planetscape Torment and Icewind Dale 1 and 2
"After Baldur's Gate was finished, BioWare then began work on Baldur's Gate 2, and another team at Black Isle began on Icewind Dale. BioWare used some of the functionality that was created for Torment by Black Isle, but not a great deal. However, with Icewind we chose to use the Baldur's Gate 2 code and bring in modifications to it that we had created for Torment. It all gets kind of convoluted, but the best way to look at it is that almost all of the code that is in the Baldur's Gate series was developed by BioWare with Black Isle contributing some code that we developed for Torment and Icewind Dale."
The difference being of course, between Perot and Bush, is that Bush is one hell of a failed business man - see here and this detailed diagram of his business failings
Chances are the brushed metal theme is probably the Visual Style that the person that took the screenshots has applied, and not the default look.
MS would not like to be seen as a copycat company, which is why they would not want to have a skin in Internet Explorer/Windows that mimics that of Apple's brushed metal theme.
Speaking of the built-in popup blocker; in the brief time i tested SP2, it did a good job blocking the ads (no reason why it wouldn't I guess) but I still prefer to stick to Pop-Up Cop, which can turn off a variety of IE annoyances, such as those damned "eyelets" that play embedded in webpages without a third party media player, (I wanna say they're Flash based.) as well as automatic window resizing, automatic scripts/events, Flash autoplay etc...
Care to elaborate on how you are doing this? It sounds interesting, especially your dynamic IP service email address.
Yes... I do run my own website but beyond that I have no idea how this stuff works - I let my host do the dirty work.
An MCSE friend of mine told me that originally Microsoft said that NTFS would not need defragmenting which is why NT 3.51 and I think 4.0 do not include built-in defragmenters. Obviously, since Win 2000 does have diskeeper in it, that didn't prove to be the truth. However it is still less susceptible to fragmenting than FAT. So in respect to fragmentation, NTFS is an improvements over FAT, but it didn't completely solve the problem. I've still to look over how the ext3 Linux filesystem gets away without the need to defragment.
Your post would be more convincing if what you posted wasn't mostly bullshit or big exaggerations.
Every single version of Windows has been an improvement in stability, as well as continued increasing support for new technologies and new multimedia features. (except for ME, what the hell was that?) For some, those are worthy of an upgrade for some they aren't. Windows 2000 was more pricey than Windows 98, as it was meant for a business environment, but I used it at home and I loved the stability over 98. Similarly, this is what happened with '98 over '95, but not quite as huge.
Windows XP for me is a good blend of stability as well as features and compatability. I rarely have crashes/bsod/reboots even though I have my computer heavily overclocked, which can only lead to instability problems, and the current level of stability, it is quite acceptable. If I wasn't installing software often and have a large number of software and games installed over the past 5 months since I reinstalled Windows (... family killed it with spyware/viruses) I wouldn't even reboot the weekly/bi-weekly times I do now. My mouse has been acting funny for over a month now... I wonder if it's my overclock, or my mouse dying.
You don't have to run adware programs in Windows if you don't install programs that install these without your knowledge. It's the same with Linux if some program were to decide to install spyware with itself. Linux is not immune, just not as widely used or as profitable a target for spyware.
As for defragging, if I understand correctly, one of the newer file systems (efx3 or ef3 or something like that) does not need to be defragged and that's a "plus". I did read recently, however, that defragmenting is pretty much worthless because the performance gain is negligeble and not noticeable. I still defrag, but not as often as I used to - I can't remember what website it was that I read that on, but something to keep in mind... and perhaps submit on Slashdot so we can have a discussion around the topic of defragging.
With XP it seems like I have to click 8 more times than I used to with earlier versions of Windows just to get the same thing done. XP loves to show you all the crap you can do which is fine for joe average but it sucks when you already know how to use a computer. I don't want a whole bunch of worthless options cluttering the interface when I know what I want to do. They make the easy stuff easier to do and the difficult stuff damn near impossible, or at least a major headache.
I can't think of any feature other than the Control Panel new view (as opposed to Classic view,... just another "click" to fix) that require a whole lot more steps to do. As more features are added to the OS, there will inevitably be more steps to achieve the same result, and I don't think it's as big a problem as you make it sound.
Then you have to worry about the aging affect. Every Windows version I have ever used (3.1, 3.11, NT4.0, Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2000, WinXP) has gotten more unstable over time. It's a pain in the ass to have to deal with and eventually you just have to reinstall.
That's because of crappy software that doesn't uninstall properly or that installs programs as services that startup automatically and also add programs to Windows Startup folder/registry... mostly
I'll agree with you though, every installation of Windows that I've used (from 95, to 98, to 2000 and now XP) has become unstable or slow (to use or boot), or unresponsive and takes ages to load the desktop even though I've disabled most every startup program other than the bare neccessities. I think the OS should do more to stop crappy behavior and install routines from app installs that leave crap behind, but it's also programmers' faults.
Anything like this 3d-desktop (in development apparently) that's available for Windows (XP)? It seems really cool - mainly for novelty value, and also because I don't like using virtual desktops because it seems like such a pain remembering what window is where and switching back and forth. At least for me it's very unpractical, but some would say they couldn't live without it.
The voting would still be anonymous up until the point that the voter demands to verify his vote. Even then, if the voter wants to verify his vote with his receipt, it can still be done electronically with no identifiable user information being neccessary to be entered. Electronically meaning in a separate database than the e-voting system, one that is entered by hand through workers. How about barcoding them?
awww come on, I thought it was obvious that I was being very sarcastic in response to the parent post. I didn't assume they sourced it off one machine, but rather the parent poster did...