Bill Gates explains the “simple” method for changing system settings in Windows Vista
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*installs spellcheck on Literal’s computer*
You’re welcome. Oh! And also, you fail.
Wait…Vista has something simple?
Yeah, pretty much a large portion of it is simple.
Seen this lol before…meh…
I thought it was better as “Invisible Rubik’s Cube.”
Invisible bovine bimanual exam …
“So I apply the ginger how?!”
Elsie’s in for a surprise …
Next on Billionaires Gone Wild…
I was thinking “Geeks Gone Wild”…it has a certain ring to it…
Point taken.
DWN, at the risk of sounding like a total geek…what is the picture of your gravatar?
Rhorho found it a couple days ago, I shouldn’t be surprised that nobody cared to see. XD
Basically it is a snapshot of my favorite Gaia avatar look because I didn’t want to resize or fiddle with some of my old art.
Hey, wait. Am I gonna have to mess your skully
snaky self up…again?
*cracks her knuckles menacingly*
*steps up next to rhoho with crossed arms a raised eyebrow, and quietly tapping fingers*
Master -I- am more than willing to upload/fiddle with/ help you with any of the above so that you can show off your art. -You- Need to stop being a dork about it and show off the stuff you took HOURS to make.
Speaking of which. If My sister doesn’t come over tonight Perhaps we should update your DA since you have -numerous- images that should be posted and aren’t because you simply didn’t ever post them.
sorry, dwn, but you’re on your own on this one.
@Lynn: *blinks* Eh, I don’t consider the art to be worth the effort of uploading. Up to you.
@Rhorho: Huh?
@ubr: I might be sleeping on your couch for a few days…
you’re always welcome… haha…
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>.>
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Fine. I’ll go on an uploading spree tonight and upload everything I think is worth being showcased on your DA.
So, you’re going to sit there and do nothing?
@ DWN & Lynn: Just a jokey.
* quietly escapes the room before things get worse… *
@Rhorho: No worries.
@ubr: *tries to sneak out with you*
*pounces and noms* YOU HAVE LOTS OF GOOD ART. I will have lots to do XP
I told you not to drink and type, hun. I plan to kill things tonight and check a few things on Gaia, probably end up getting sucked into Gaia. If you want to post art, I will let you have bigger computer and I will just kill things offline. Things, they need to die.
Everyone always bashes Vista. I have it on my laptop and I don’t have any problems with it. I like it a lot better than Windows XP.
You must not use it for anything serious.
If all you use it for is surfing PunditKitchen, Vista works fine.
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to all u fools bashing on Vista because of the “permission” non sense. thats just a setting that can be turned off.
….You know, like that annoying “shift” key! You can just snap it right off the keyboard.
Or you could just stop holding it.
if that’s all that was wrong with the pOS, you’d have a point, but that’s only the beginning. it also demonstrates what ms is willing to do to write good code – very little. instead of fixing the issues with good coding practices, they make the user manually decide whether or not something is safe to run.
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the people who know how to turn off that ‘feature’ are also the ones who would know if something is safe to run. the people who don’t know how to turn it off, shouldn’t have to be making that decision.
This is why I like PC-BSD…
i’ve never used it. i still have xp on the laptop (and vista on the other box)
i keep planning to take an older system and put that on it or one of the many flavors of linux and play with them and learn, but i always end up giving away my older systems before i get around to that.
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what do you think of pc-bsd? stable? compatible with apps? etc
I’ve had very few problems with it…
there were some NVIDIA problems, but those have been pretty much fixed.
Since I run it on a P3 with 256Meg Ram and 60 Gig HD I’ve not gone to the Fibonacci release. There were a few USB issues on HAL, but those were fiddly rather than a killer (and mostly down to the VAIO having USB 1.0 rather than 1.1 or 2.x)
I like the Telico software for my library (and it worked with a barcode reader fo quick cataloguing…)
Oh, and the Berkley OS has a proper userland, unlike Linux…
thanks for the info. i just gave away another laptop, so don’t have a spare until i decide to replace the one i’m on again. knowing me, it won’t be too much longer though.
PC-BSD has the advantage that it has an installer
system not dissimilar to the MSI… if it’s done
correctly then it won’t break the install… Ports can
break things, even when you know what you’re doing.
“I like it a lot better than XP”
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What do you like about it that Windows XP can’t do?
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is your answer: “It looks shiny”
That would be my guess. Ooooooooooh, it’s so pretty (but wait until you actually need to do something.) As Steve said, “You need permission.”
i like the search function in the start menu, good for lazy people. And the new sidebar thing on the desktop. Many things have been reorganized also, like the control panel. Makes them easier to use/more noob friendly. Just turn off the User account control and youre good to go. The fact that it’s shiny is a bonus
Wait for Windows 7.. it’s everything that Vista was supposed to be!
I don’t think we’re discussing anything with anyone other than the usual troll…
Sometimes even the unwashed masses can be saved!
Erm, not in this case. It’s a ‘Literal’ style troll
You’re making me sad
I’m not a troll
Just cuz i like vista doesnt make me a troll… :’(
Actually, “it looks shiny” sums up what I like about it, plus the entertainment and media software that comes from Microsoft all integrates well together. We don’t all have to be computer professionals to enjoy our computers. I had enough of that back in the pre 3.1 days, when I had to configure my memory manually. If I don’t get to work in the computer industry, I don’t want to have to learn that much stuff to use my home entertainment center.
hmm, my gravatar account doesn’t seem to be working. I wonder if I did it wrong?
Clear out your cache.
or clear out your cash – send it to me
A snowflake! (psst! I get half, and nobody hears about that
“unfortunate misunderstanding you had with the cat people.
Deal?)
the cat people? like julie newmar and eartha kitt?
you can have 1/2 just for being you.
Thank you so very much!
Still no gravatar showing as of now. Is your email addy here
identical to the one you used on gravatar?
I see it, but I can’t tell what it is…
Hmm, it ate my post. Here’s a disappointing video rendering of the same character.
Just a suggestion, but you may prefer to crop to
just his head and hat in this one. [LINK]
Pre-Dos 6 days… 3.1 did nothing but take up diskspace with a swap file.
It is shiny! I run Vista on my home computer, but it’s dedicated to three things: doing shiny stuff. :p That’s Internet stuff, “photos ‘n stuff”-stuff, and most importantly gaming. For that last bit, Windows is near essential, alas, and the price difference between Vista and XP was small enough for me to decide to try Vista. It works well, and crashes a lot less than XP has done for me. And it’s shiny. ;p
I dont get why everyone hates Vista. My laptop came with it even though I tried everything to get XP. But I actually like Vista better. Although, when I got it I did screw with the settings to give me administrator privileges. But even still, Vista’s not that bad.
and I think the only reason everyone’s hating on vista is because everyone else is doing it. Stupid crowd mentality :/ lol
No, trust me, my hate is up close and personal and does not involve being part of the herd.
alright you can be the exception.
Theres always a few here and there….
We brought a guy into our workplace to do Microsoft Office training and his laptop shutdown on him about 2-1/2 hours into his presentation, while it was on the AC adapter. There was no suitable explanation other than “Vista strikes again.”
That’s funny.
Excuse me, apples shuts down 5000 more times than Vista ever will, I have been working with Vista for about 2 years now and it has never shut down on me once.
Billy Goat Gruff warning!
I thought there were three of those…
It’s like with a hurricane… you get the warning out fast enough, you get fewer casualties…
Actually, it probably involves technical competence and the fact that simply because it came with the box doesn’t make it good.
*zing*
MTP players bluescreen it
[blockquote]Although, when I got it I did screw with the settings to give me administrator privileges.[/blockquote]
And with XP this wasn’t even necessary. Everything I have read on Vista is that it was a “Rush To Market” OS because Mac was coming out with their new OS. The guy that was the lead of the development team totally inflated the virtues of Vista, only to see it fall flat on it’s face. The people that truly hate Vista are those that have seen the evolution of Windows since way back.
*bugger*
Ah hah. I see. I’m a youngin so for the most part i just know xp and vista in some sort of depth lolol
Let’s put it this way, Vista is just slightly better then Windows 95..
LOL I’ll take your word for it
It’s slightly better than Win 98. It’s not better than Win 98SE, and it blows the socks of Win ME (never get an OS names after a debilitating illness) Win2K was really NT core in a party frock, so for a clear comparison there I’d say Win 2K was about as good as NT4 without the service packs.
- 95 was at least stable. it basically sucked, but it didn’t crash too much.
- 98 was unstable, but had UI improvements.
- XP interface pretty much sucked, but it was tweakable to make it usable again – and was actually quite stable
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- vista is seriously unstable; they’ve added things like the permission prompt to cover up all the security holes they left in it; and their biggest ‘improvement’ is to make it look and act like a video game – like the MAC OS interface.
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i’ve been using computers since punch cards and paper tape days and on the pc have gone from CP/M through vista
don’t get me started….
Geez, that was like having my life retold! I totally loved bootstrapping a system..
but could you do it from memory alone?
HAHA! Oh hell, no way..
There were some who could…
Yes, well those were the people that had hours on off-shift who did nothing else but memorize the sequence.
They were the ones you called in to
emergencies at 8pm on a Friday since you
knew they’d be at home
Or people like my father who never left work until well after 8pm on a Friday because there was ALWAYS an emergency…
Erp – he’s a comp engineer.
I suddenly feel very comfortable with you all, as if you’ve known me since I was a child
Since last Wednesday?
I suppose I’ve never entirely grown up, have I? Ah well, keeps the soul young – which is more than anyone can say for you, you old bat!
Quit muttering and get to work with that Dr. Scholl’s file.
My corns are paining me again.
*nods off*
People who hate Vista, like myself, saw the promise that Windows XP has shown over 95/98 and even Windows NT/2000, and expected Vista to be another big step up from XP, with all the things we hate about XP resolved, a new, more efficient file system (which Microsoft originally promised but did not deliver), and a REASON to step to a new, modern operating system.
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Instead Microsoft tried to sell us Windows XP + Pretty Colors. I’m sorry, but I’m not paying 200+ dollars per PC for pretty. I want substance. There is no compelling reason to upgrade a business network to Vista. None. It’s shuffle-ware. They sold it to sell it, it achieves little or nothing that windows XP hasn’t already covered.
It’s what you get with a virtual monopoly. When you have an entity that could push IBM aside in the desk top market (eventually) you’re looking at something mighty powerful. After the death of OS/2, really MS had a clear field, with no competition, other than a low level nuisance in the form of Open Source… If someone does come up with the Killer App, they are either bought up, or driven out of business… Apple are no better, but they’re a monopoly in a different sense… to claim Apple has a monopoly is like saying Mercedes has a monopoly in building Mercedes cars. If you don’t want Apple, you don’t buy Apple. PC there is no choice. It ships with the OS mo matter which manufacturer you buy…
os/2 was originally ms. ibm contracted them out to produce the os and it was by far the superior os (some will argue for unix on the pc, but i disagree). I was using it from v 1.0, which had no gui, but was a very stable kernel. 1.1 introduced the gui.
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for whatever reasons, ms decided to drop os/2 and focus on the ‘windows’ platform. even though os/2 did true multitasking and memory management, and windows still ran on top of dos, could only do task switching (no background processing), and still required expanded and extended memory managers to address +640, ms saw something in the platform (more likely, they wanted to break ties with ibm and focus on their own proprietary product). They decided to give os/2 (sell I’m sure) back to ibm, who came out with os/2 4 (warp), which was absolute garbage. ibm never recovered the os/2 market.
I know the history… but simply because an IBM product is crap doesn’t mean much. The fact that MS beat IBM after the hissy fit was the point…
i wasn’t trying to say you were wrong. you were right on every point, i was simply adding colorful dialog (or however you explained the kurdish mime reference).
Mine added narrative colour… yours was simply bloat… there is a difference…
there’s that ego we’ve been ‘missing’. welcome back!
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I program PLC’s (general purpose industrial computers that run vast chunks of the worlds industrial processes). Vista will not run a single one of the multiple applications that are required to do my normal job. Insane/stupid driver issues (still!) and the random BSOD… Plus as an added bonus the ever increasing MS-bloatware functions… Bleah! Vista blows. Doesn’t matter how freaking pretty it is if it doesn’t function solidly… XP, for all its faults at least lets me get on with my real business…
–grumble grumble–
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Exactly. XP is far from perfect, but Vista is FURTHER from perfect than XP. Software is supposed to IMPROVE with each revision.
Bless your charmingly naive head!
“he’s got the whole world, in his hands….”
…and he’s feeling a bit “crushy” today….
BTW, my brother-in-law is a programmer at Microsoft, and he advised me NOT to buy Vista.
Isn’t Windows 7 coming in June/July?
More like the end of the year.. June/July will probably be beta 2.
I was going with corporate lies… having said that, they’ve carved a lot of the shiny bloat out of Win 7… there’s less to go wrong.
See, this is what you get when there is a virtual monopoly in an industry sector.
Are we finally getting the new file system promised with Vista? Or have they caved in and resorted to NTFS once again?
Not following it that closely… I’d assume it’s going to stick with NTFS or a variant, simply for backward compatibility.
For the real deal I’d have to poke on ZDNet
That I don’t know.. I would suspect they’re ditching NTFS though (at least that’s my gut feeling.)
For what?
I did a quick search and it’s called WinFS (Windows Future Storage). It’s supposed to be backward compatible with NTFS.
A file system so advanced they’re not calling it a file system.
I bet the lights were burning late in the Acronym Department when they came up with that one…
*snort*
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Remember, Bill isn’t in charge anymore.. otherwise we would have gotten something really snazzy!
I would buy Windows 7 for my home and all 50 workstations and 2 servers at my business if they could make one single upgrade from XP:
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Change the way the registry works to make it build similar to Mac OSX, so that the operating system becomes immune to virus/spyware infection without bugging the crap out of me about it. They won’t, as that isn’t really feasible with the current OS structure, but THAT is what I expect to get when buying a Next-Gen Operating System.
To clarify, when I say “my business” I refer to my place of employment. I don’t intend to suggest I own the business, as I would need to reference my MySpace and I just don’t have time for that much editing today!
*enthusiastic golf clapping*
lol. Company loyalty fail
Ah, you’re a troll… I get it now. Bye.
I am not! I’m just bored at this moment in time. I’ll go away soon.
Actually, Im not entirely sure what a troll is o_O lol
Google can be your friend..
so can urban dictionary, but i’m not in a friend-making mood atm hahah.
Yes, we did, in fact, see the obvious…
It’s the Literal signature… the inappropriate ‘haha’ and ‘lol’ crap… I’d suggested we’d wasted enough time…
Did I miss something? Have we labeled Literal with the “Troll Tag”, or am I reading this wrong?
*confuzzed*
My opinion only, but I think it’s Literal’s sock — not necessarily this poster, but I think somebody’s been socking her recently.
The only name I have here for that style troll on this board.
I’m not that certain that it is a sock, since the ‘Literal’ poster had had numerous socks and identities with various back stories over a longish period of time (over 6 months)
There was an evolution (devolution?) on a the “Does this make me look fat?” thread that did look very much like the slightly prissy Literal persona fall apart.
I’m not convinced this is Literal, but it’s of the literal type…
the ‘haha’ and ‘lol’ use at odd times, the denial
of knowing what a troll is etc… It’s showing all
the sigs of a troll, so I say treat it as such…
Thanks, Fester explains all! I still hear an annoying buzz though..
sigh, I think I’m too sensitive to criticism for teh interwebs…
farewell.
actually, the “haha”‘s and “lol”‘s come from real life, cuz I laugh a lot in real life especially when i’m nervous. And I’m getting rather nervous right now. I don’t mean any harm, just playin around is all :s
to be quite honest, I myself do not know what defines a “troll”, though I am rather newish around here. I can only hope that I do not inadvertently step beyond the boundary from “noob” into trollishness. ( or is it trollocity?)
Giving the benefit of the doubt…
This sort of disingenuous post is often an alarm bell to the forum admin that a new troll has landed…
Uncle Fester, you give Saint the benifit of the doubt but not Timmis? She dosn’t know what troll means and was trying to have a friendly convorsation, she loves this site and was merely stating her feelings, she even yielded to you saying ok you have more experience but that she enjoys her use of vista after modifying the system files which is a 1 time thing. I fail to see how she is trolling, especially when she talks with a positive attitude as opposed to a negative one. I don’t really use this site, but i’m asking that you please try to be nicer to her, she really loves this site and would never troll. Thanks.
By the way, I prefer XP too, but she likes vista since I helped her mod it, and I can’t blame her the only real difference is the layout once you tweak it and she likes that, so no harm (;.
hahahha
yup fester, you called it.
here we have the ‘daughter coming in to defend moms righteousness’ syndrome.
Not her daughter, but you guys are being very agressive twards her and making her sad. Frankly I don’t care if you love xp or vista, but you shouldn’t attack her just for her opinion. As she herself stated she is very sensitive, i’m just asking you to respect that shes very clearly not trying to fight, just trying to have friendly convo, and here you two are ready to drive her off the site even after she admitted to being unfortunatley sensitive on a very harsh internet. If it takes bashing her to feel like a man however, by all means continue.
Ant that, Mr and Mrs America and all ships at sea, is the Heatherjc signature replayed again… almost verbatim.
No, it’s really not, never has been, and this is the last I have to say on the matter. And my username and email address for everything I have ever done up to posting on Pundit Kitchen has been heatherjlc, not heatherjc, and I’m the one who told you Literal = heatherjlc. I outed myself, apparently.
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Good luck to you all. I enjoyed discussing political topics with you and following your sometimes bizarre digressions, and I do wish you well.
To remember the minutae of the ‘l’ would be imply I’d paid more attention than I did…
I was referring to the mother daughter tag team character that posted as Heatherjlc… the personalities behind it, I’d not care to try and unravel that psychological nightmare, if it’s just one person…
methinks they are one and the same. by the way, If I was a troll, you’d tell me, right? ( I feel like a kid who just found out hemight be adopted)
Yet another disingenuous posting. It would seem that, perhaps, we have a new cretin.
i wouldn’t find my post to be disingenuous, in fact, I thought it to be quite candid. But, in all seriousness, I am just here to read and laugh a little, and maybe occasionally say something that gets a laugh out of someone else. It’s what I do, I’m a comedian by nature (and profession). As far as being a Cretin, I myself have never even set foot on the Isle of Crete. ( more humor, thought I’d point it out this time)
if you have to point it out, it’s not really funny is it?
I thought it was funny, whether you did or not is your choice. “pointing out” the humor was mere sarcasm, and poking a little fun at the fact that my previous attempt at humor went over like a lead balloon. So, to sum up, I realized that my humor did not play well the first time, so I “pointed it out” the second time, in effect making fun of myself and lack of humor, which, as an entire scenario, plays out as funny. but thank you, IS, thank you, for pointing out the obvious, and for letting me know that my humor is wasted here.
i’d say the point was that you’re simply not quite as funny as you seem to think you are.
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better to leave a fallen joke unexplained than to detail your failure.
If you were a troll, you would be out to intentionally annoy and then have some contrived back up plan if you wanted to take your game seriously so as to dicker about with credibility until it is all spent. All for the lolz. Sidenote: The obvious trolls just want to state things to start flame wars but everybody can spot those.
So if you aren’t after that sort of thing, then you aren’t.
ha ha
lol
Zort!
Narf!
“And soon it will be Total Information Technology, or T.I.T. And when you’re sucking on the T.I.T., I’ve got you by the motherboard!”
Robin Williams wins.
gotta love Robin Williams. That was from his Live on Broadway DVD I believe..
I’ve never had any problems with Vista. I’m a college student though so I don’t try to f*ck with it much. Never had a need to. But hey, everybody’s got an opinion.
Well I just asked a few of my friends and they say people that install Vista themselves on an older computer have the problems. My bad. I bought my computer with it already installed. Haven’t had a problem yet.
yes, older underpowered computers are going to have more problems, if they could run it at all, and no one in their right mind actually installs vista onto anything. that’s not the issue any of us are talking about.
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if you haven’t had any issues, and you can deal with the miserable interface, more power to you.
Monty Python reference lost.
Happy 1234567890, y’all! ;p