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Thread ID: 86863	2008-01-30 21:20:00	The next Windows - what I really want	Biggles (121)	PC World Chat

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635688	2008-01-31 02:40:00	HL2 vs Freecell :lol: :lol: :lol:	wratterus (105)
635689	2008-01-31 02:55:00	Go Freecell, its an awesome game! :D	beeswax34 (63)
635690	2008-01-31 03:45:00	Go Freecell, its an awesome game! :D My mother played all 32000 games I believe. :eek:	wratterus (105)
635691	2008-01-31 04:15:00	Whats wrong with sharing Libraries? Works for linux? Sure, there was "dependancy Hell" for a while with rpm's but with Debian's Apt, Fedora's Yum, Gentoo's Portage etc etc, thats all long-gone! Seriously you guys have been missing out... ;) And Encrypted memory space is something that was looked into, but it made life a bl00dy nightmare in so many respects when I was last reading up about it :P Things may have changed thou, Im no expect on that subject, but yeah.. Also, XP / Vista still allow the user to manipulate the HDD, AFAIK there was a virus recently doing the rounds that manipulated the boot sector, with "user" privileges even! That sorta thing would never be allowed under a Linux / Mac OS ;) I agree, UAC sucks, and its a cheap cop-out of the likes of what Linux has had for AGES! You're all USERS regardless of if you like it or not by default (althou one or two rogue distro's digress..), and if you wanna do something that can really muck up your system (Rather than just your own user account settings) THEN and ONLY THEN must you put in the administrator password... none of this BS that UAC is... popping up left-right & center :p	Chilling_Silence (9)
635692	2008-01-31 04:28:00	Windows does use shared libraries. A .DLL file is a shared library. Shared libraries have been around for a long time. But no user application should replace or "duplicate" a system library, or do anything at all to the OS , except (rarely) when being installed. No user application should ever have root privileges, let alone require root privilege to run. An OS should be runnable from a write-locked disk.	Graham L (2)
635693	2008-01-31 04:34:00	This functionality needs to be a core feature, not a tweak you can play with. It needs to be there right up front so that if your 15-year old kid wants to configure the OS his way to make it run games at their best he can do so without going in and messing with your PC in a way that's going to make you crazy. And you just click on your config to restore you r PC to exactly how you want it.Hmm ... bad hair day and your 15 y/o is bugging the heck out of you? :p If the 15 y/o wishes to tweak the living daylights out of your computer then you should check out BlackViper's Windows XP Service Pack 2 Services Profile Guide (www.blackviper.com). This will allow a "gaming" profile to be set up separate to your preferred profile. And yeah, I agree with Bletch about your wants being what Linux currently offers - bar gaming of course! :D	Jen (38)
635694	2008-01-31 04:49:00	Bruce has a young Buckman Jr?	Chilling_Silence (9)
635695	2008-01-31 04:49:00	Great post Bruce. I am not that technical but have been using and installing Windows since 3.11 (and DOS). I agree with you 100%. We want all those "features" you described in Windows, not Linux or Mac. The trick is how to get Redmond to read your post and realise that you are right. I understand that the next Windows will be a smaller tighter version. Regards Digby	Digby (677)
635696	2008-01-31 04:59:00	I'm going to show my age here (and probably my general ignorance of computers), but what you wants sounds eerily like windows 3.1, didn't most 3rd party apps have their own ini files rather than a hook in the registry?, I always thought that was a good idea And as for gaming well windows 3.1 has it all, trillions of Dos games, which look spectacular at fullscreen on a modern monitor, who needs DX10 when you can see the individual 2inch pixel blocks that make up Commander Keen	Morgenmuffel (187)
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