>but I think they were just stupid, since any mouse should work on those netbooks.
It's been over a year, but I seem to recall having to edit the xorg.conf file to make all the buttons on my mouse work....
> I don't remember seeing near as many issues from NT4/W2K > XP transition as Vista has presented. Main problems I have with it...
That's probably because the differences between Windows 2000 and Windows XP (Especially at XP's launch) were mostly trivial. Vista's a whole new beast.
>By changing the control panels and network settings,
If your machine ever connects to more than one network, especially simultaneously, the Network Center rocks.
Uh, no it doesn't. If you open Process Monitor (From Sysinternals), and watch what happens when you use the quick launch bar, you get 'explorer.exe' does a 'Process Create' on the target of the link you clicked. IE is not involved.
WinFS was not a file system. It was an insanely complicated, slow, and bloaty database that was used for indexing purposes in early betas. NTFS was always the file system with WinFS.
I believe that quicklaunch is a Desk Band object. They do not use IE. IE can load Tool band objects into itself, which are similar, but loading a deskband into explorer shouldn't use any IE components.
One demo failed. There was a problem with the gain on the mic during that demo.
In any case, the Speech Recognition is actually quite good. You just don't hear about the successful demonstrations of it because you read slashdot.;)
Better searching, MSI 4 (Has some nifty new features that businesses will like for managing computers), XPS might be useful, but I don't really know, IIS7 (only relevant to servers, using Longhorn server, and developers, but it's still cool.), Bitlocker, A slew of security stuff (IE runs w/ lower privledges, address randomization stuff to prevent buffer overflow attacks, etc.), vastly superior wireless support compared to XP (It's very very nice on my laptop.), RDP 6.0, domain fast user switching, a shitload of new group policy stuff...............
WUXGA is 1920x1200.;)
Trust me, It sounds like everything would be impossible to read, but after half an hour of using it, you think every monitor in existence without such a high density absolutely blows.
You're especially right with Vista. Microsoft is pushing things away from the kernel with new driver models. They want more stuff to live in userland. Look at WDDM, for example. In XP, nearly all the components of video driver lived in the kernel. Now they can put less and less there, and more into user space.
This is rediculous. It's not like Microsoft is completely locking them out of the kernel. There are still documented ways to do everything they need. Microsoft is only stopping them from using methods of hooking into the kernel that were _never_ supposed to be used in the first place.
Well,.NET stuff doesn't need to be registered with regsvr32 unless you're using COM to get to it. You'd use gacutil to put it into the global assembly cache.....but I'm sure you could break Office by randomly unregistering it's stuff....I'm not brave enough to try it, though.
What would give you that idea? I'm sure I could fire up regsvr32 and break Office quite easily. regsvr32 is just for registering and unregistering any COM stuff.
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Maxwell's equations don't preclude magnetic monopoles
Excuse me? Last time I checked, Maxwell's equations said that Delta B = 0.
No. Winsxs is not 6gb. That's just explorer being stupid when it tells you how big it is. There are a lot of hard links in there.
>but I think they were just stupid, since any mouse should work on those netbooks. It's been over a year, but I seem to recall having to edit the xorg.conf file to make all the buttons on my mouse work....
Why would anyone prefer Google's crappy search to Vista's?
> I don't remember seeing near as many issues from NT4/W2K > XP transition as Vista has presented. Main problems I have with it...
That's probably because the differences between Windows 2000 and Windows XP (Especially at XP's launch) were mostly trivial. Vista's a whole new beast.
>By changing the control panels and network settings,
If your machine ever connects to more than one network, especially simultaneously, the Network Center rocks.
Uh, no it doesn't. If you open Process Monitor (From Sysinternals), and watch what happens when you use the quick launch bar, you get 'explorer.exe' does a 'Process Create' on the target of the link you clicked. IE is not involved.
WinFS was not a file system. It was an insanely complicated, slow, and bloaty database that was used for indexing purposes in early betas. NTFS was always the file system with WinFS.
I believe that quicklaunch is a Desk Band object. They do not use IE. IE can load Tool band objects into itself, which are similar, but loading a deskband into explorer shouldn't use any IE components.
You're in luck. Someone released a 'power-toy' like thing that does just that.
Behold! Start++
http://brandontools.com/default.aspx
One demo failed. There was a problem with the gain on the mic during that demo. In any case, the Speech Recognition is actually quite good. You just don't hear about the successful demonstrations of it because you read slashdot. ;)
Better searching, MSI 4 (Has some nifty new features that businesses will like for managing computers), XPS might be useful, but I don't really know, IIS7 (only relevant to servers, using Longhorn server, and developers, but it's still cool.), Bitlocker, A slew of security stuff (IE runs w/ lower privledges, address randomization stuff to prevent buffer overflow attacks, etc.), vastly superior wireless support compared to XP (It's very very nice on my laptop.), RDP 6.0, domain fast user switching, a shitload of new group policy stuff...............
By replacing two files in Vista with their RC2 counterparts, you were able to trick Vista into thinking it was RC2 for key and activation purposes.
Congratulations, you just described the default power functionality in XP.
Perhaps because, Oh, I don't know, maybe Vista hasn't been released yet, and WMP11 comes with Vista, so there is no need for a user to download it?
WUXGA is 1920x1200. ;)
Trust me, It sounds like everything would be impossible to read, but after half an hour of using it, you think every monitor in existence without such a high density absolutely blows.
It's really a shame. WUXGA is beautiful on a 15.4" screen. (I have a HP nw8440 with a 15.4" screen and WUXGA.)
A problem with Bitlocker, maybe?
Unlucky my ass. I was #7 for preordering my Wii this morning....
You're especially right with Vista. Microsoft is pushing things away from the kernel with new driver models. They want more stuff to live in userland. Look at WDDM, for example. In XP, nearly all the components of video driver lived in the kernel. Now they can put less and less there, and more into user space.
This is rediculous. It's not like Microsoft is completely locking them out of the kernel. There are still documented ways to do everything they need. Microsoft is only stopping them from using methods of hooking into the kernel that were _never_ supposed to be used in the first place.
Yeah, but for $500, you can still have both AND more money left over than that idiot neighbor of yours who is going to buy a PS3.
Well, .NET stuff doesn't need to be registered with regsvr32 unless you're using COM to get to it. You'd use gacutil to put it into the global assembly cache.....but I'm sure you could break Office by randomly unregistering it's stuff....I'm not brave enough to try it, though.
What would give you that idea? I'm sure I could fire up regsvr32 and break Office quite easily. regsvr32 is just for registering and unregistering any COM stuff.
Well, they've rewritten the entire network stack.....Who knows how that'll turn out...but It's a start, isn't it?
There's your problem. You're talking about a 4 month old build. It's like 2 mouse clicks and a UAC prompt to disable the security center in RC1.