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| Thread ID: 115069 | 2010-12-31 06:20:00 | Windows 8 Rumours | Bobh (5192) | PC World Chat |
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| 1165979 | 2011-01-03 05:41:00 | The OS does a lot more than that, memory management, hardware configuration etc.... A lot of these functions have options which can be changed, and in a lot of cases should be changed. Of course that is down to preference, but if I want to change options, I should be able to do it easily without the settings all hidden away somewhere. Sure I can understand that some people would like these kind of options hidden as they will never change them but for someone like me... Ultimately I think there should be an OS-Global setting to show or hide advanced options easily or not... I agree to some of that but how often do you want to tweak the O/S then? Why not build your own O/S? And I repeat that the O/S is NOT an application although it may contain several. The real work, as in productive work, requires one or more applications which as I said run under the O/S which is my main point. I hope this makes my position more plain to you. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1165980 | 2011-01-03 05:46:00 | One reason a lot of advanced options are hidden away, is because they are not needed for the "average person" . If you were to make some advanced options available easy, every idiot under the sun would be changing things they know nothing about, then wonder why it all screws up . How many times have people changed something - not knowing what it does, then blame the OS for being useless -its the Operator, not the OS thats useless . "No one touched anything" -Yeah right . :rolleyes: If a person has the skills to fiddle, then theres no problem locating the "advanced options" . If you dont like the way the OS you are using is designed(options/ Layout) -- make your own, then you only have yourself to blame ;) Edited: Just a thought -- MS in the past have put out beta versions, and no doubt they will this time as well . In the Beta's you have the option to make suggestions/ changes -- theres your chance -- put forward all your Ideas as to how you want the OS to be laid out, and who knows what will happen . ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1165981 | 2011-01-03 07:35:00 | XP has a use which Vista, 7, and Windows 8 will probably never have - Ease of use. Want to change some setting in XP? Go to the place where it is and change it. Want to change some setting in Vista\Win7? Go to the place where it makes no sense to put it, jump through several tabs, menus, submenus, advanced buttons and "show hidden settings that might confuse you if you are a moron" buttons, click UAC allow button about 5 times, and then make the change. I know which one I prefer! Correction: in Windows 7, simply type the name of the Control Panel option into Start Search. Couldn't be easier! :D |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1165982 | 2011-01-03 08:40:00 | If a person has the skills to fiddle, then theres no problem locating the "advanced options". But how do you get the skills to fiddle if you don't fiddle to start with. I would say that is how most people here have acquired their skills. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1165983 | 2011-01-03 09:18:00 | Correction: in Windows 7, simply type the name of the Control Panel option into Start Search. Couldn't be easier! :D +1 |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1165984 | 2011-01-03 10:01:00 | But how do you get the skills to fiddle if you don't fiddle to start with. I would say that is how most people here have acquired their skills.Thats true, but the whole point I was making is Agent complained that the advanced settings are often hidden away -- Some people like to fiddle, sometimes they know what they are doing, sometimes not, while most home users are quite happy to leave settings at their defaults, or what someone has pre-set. IF the advanced settings were always visible, then there would be hundreds of settings -- lots of people get lost as soon as they are told to open the control panel, and see the few basic that are visible. As pcuser42 points out, type in the setting you want in the search and 99% of the time it will appear directly. I have a computer Here I collected today - classic example of someone fiddled with the hidden settings, changed things they had no idea as to what would do (series of things actually), and its a total mess. It wont boot into windows, BUT after running a couple of diagnostic programs I found out whats been changed - fixing it is another matter. One thing that really pissed me off, following advise from some forum, they disabled system restore -----and that would have fixed the problem instantly :mad: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1165985 | 2011-01-03 10:25:00 | Thats true, but the whole point I was making is Agent complained that the advanced settings are often hidden away -- Some people like to fiddle, sometimes they know what they are doing, sometimes not, while most home users are quite happy to leave settings at their defaults, or what someone has pre-set. My first computer had an ordinary audio tape to store things and I couldn't do a lot of damage but my second, an XT with a 20mb HD had DOS3 and I manage to totally trash it once but I have come so far since then and it has been a real challenge. One thing I hate is when there is more than one way to get to something and trying to remember and I am not talking about something simple like typing a search. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1165986 | 2011-01-03 10:31:00 | I fiddle with my O/S on a regular basis but then I also make an image before I do so. I also have backups. | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1165987 | 2011-01-03 10:44:00 | When I fiddle with the computer I take a note in my diary so that I can refer back to it when I need to change things back. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1165988 | 2011-01-03 18:38:00 | Generally when I fiddle, I use another PC which has virtually no data on it, so reinstalls are a breeze :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
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