Comments on: Goodbye Vista, Hello Windows 7

By: cheese

cheese — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:06:24 +0000

and i got 1280×1024 on both my monitors, i think the native resolutions are 800×600 which is ok if your blind

By: cheese

cheese — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:04:55 +0000

i thought the only decent thing bout vista was its looks!
oh but my xp looks like vista but is xp ! how do i know its xp, cause when i right click and press properties i can see all the tabs in one place including appearance which when i used vista seemed you had to go through Icon resolution sizes to get to .

also the point about the add/remove components on 9x they should bring that back definitely

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:30:41 +0000

freeman
i’ve been fixing comps for over 17 years.
your stats are BS.
get some training

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:14:43 +0000

History repeats itself:

http://h0bbel.p0ggel.org/windows-server-2008-as-desktop-laptop-os

So, I will wait for the server version of Windows 7. Now, Windows Server 2003 is fine for me as a desktop OS.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:59:55 +0000

When I first got XP (in 2001) I downsized from 1024×768 to 640×480 because I couldn’t read the tiny text.

After a couple of months, though, I was used to it. Today I have no trouble with reading the display on my 1920×1200.

BUT, if I ever have to downsize an application’s screen size nowadays, it’s because of low FPS, something that Vista (which I don’t have) users should be familiar with.

By: freeman

freeman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:48:57 +0000

Nice going, HAHAHA
I have been repairing puters for over 20 years and I find ALL Winblows and any Microrap product just that => CRAP!

My stats average out to:
1 – over 9,000 installs of OS’s: 80% Winblows, 15% Linux, 5% other
2 – returns due to OS malfunction: 96% Winblows, 2% Linux, 2% other
3 – ability to repair OS without wiping whole system and reinstalling: 7% Winblows, 99% Linux, 92% other
4 – returns due to attacks from internet: 99.6% Winblows, 0.4% Linux and other
5 – length of uptime per OS before problems:
Winblows – comes with over 240,000 flaws built in, so 0 [zero] days
Linux and other – 1 year
6 – length of uptime:
Winblows – 1 month
Linux – 14 months
Other – 11 months
Note: there are still Linux and Other OS boxes running after 8 years of not being stopped, not even for patches. Just to be clear, they keep running un-patched and un-compromised.
I opened one buddy’s Linux box the other week, while still running after 3 years, and it was full of spiderwebs, dead bugs, dust bunnies the size of baby rabbits and fans barely working. Nothing that a vacuum and little 120 PSI air pressure didn’t fix.
Maybe when he gets time we will take it down and clean and lube fans, power supply and crustaceans.

Thanx Winblows for making me a whole bunch of cash due to repair and service work
Still want to use that hunk of junk Winblows?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:27:37 +0000

Windows 95 allowed users the option of selectively installing only the features they wanted; Win95 users could uninstall features or install additional features from the CD at any time.

That’s the way every operating system should come packaged.

I never understood why XP and Vista omitted this much-loved – and often critical – feature that was in Win9X for many years.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:26:52 +0000

Mmm, yeh, whose great idea was it to try to cram 1200x or 1600x resolution on a 15 inch display anyways. Too small, or too blury, a lovely choise. I’ll miss my CRTs when they finally blow their bulbs

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:54:15 +0000

I forgot to add that I have Vista and hate the crap. The networking side of Vista is atrocious. There are more problems with it than I care to go into at this time but one of the killers for me is the amount of time wasted while Vista searches the database to inform you what is on a networked drive that is not indexed. Any drive on the network and outside the computer can’t be indexed. So when connecting or making changes, Vista must do a search for each change. On large drives (such as a TB or bigger; and I have two of these) this comes out to be 2 minutes of wait time to access, change folders, add files to the drive, or after it is done, go back. Each of these operations have 2 waiting times to get the job done. One when you access the drive while it finds out what is there before you can see or make an change, such as going into a folder. Each folder change you have this on. Another after you add the file/s when it updates yet again to find what changes were. You can do nothing but wait while this goes on.

Another is network logging in. XP has no troubles at all with this but Vista is another animal all together. Vista will change permissions on the fly. So I go from having a networked drive with read/write permissions to having only read permissions with no changes at all on my part in configuration. Logging in is a terror, in that sometimes it takes a 1/2 hour or longer before it will accept those log in passwords. Since I have more than one Vista machine as well as XP machine, it is only the Vista machines I see this on. Vista has been more headaches for my uses than it is worth.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:44:46 +0000

I’m one with a non-native display and it’s set that way on purpose. I know precisely where to change the settings at.

The reason it is changed, is mentioned in this article. On native display, the icons and text are far too small for the 21″ display and makes it extremely hard to read the labels on the icons. I am willing to give up desktop real estate for being able to find what I need. It does no good to have plenty of space for stuff, if you can’t see what that stuff is. It’s long been a problem with displays and not just lately.