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preacher:
I bought a new computer, which is usually a good thing, but unfortunately it had windows xp on it. I had never used xp, but I had heard that it wasnt nearly as bad as winMe. I decided to try it. After the basic configuration, I was greeted with a stupid annoying dog who dumbed every sentence down and made it seem like the people who buy this type of pc are mentally retarded(only half true). After spending 10 minutes looking for a way to turn the annoying little bastard off, I decided to do what I call "Spring Cleaning", which is where I go to the control panel and delete all the programs that I will never use. I look under add/remove programs, and to my surprise, Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer arent listed. Give me a break. If i dont want to use their bloated half ass proprietary crap, i shouldnt have to. its wasting space on my hard drive. Next I had to get rid of all the desktop icons. Being a linux user, Im not a fan of desktop icons and wanted to delete all but the My Computer and trash, but NO. Instead of me being in charge of whats on my system, microsoft is in charge. So at this point I decide to give xp one more chance. I restart the pc, and guess what greets me. the damn mother fucking talking dog. I turned my 1.8ghz P4 loaded with Windows XP home off more than 2 weeks ago and am currently looking for a "Man's" OS, Im thinking either OpenBSD, or Solaris 8. Some of us just arent meant to use MS products.

Heru:
XP is lovely isn't it?  I think there is a way to kill that dog, I just don't remember how.  And of course you can't remove IE; MS has made so that if you did you wouldn't have a functional XP system anymore.  And don't let the upcoming SP1 fool you, all it lets you do is hide MS software and use something else in place of them, it still will not let you uninstall IE or WMP.

If your going to go with either OpenBSD or Solaris, go with OpenBSD.  OpenBSD is open source, compatible with Linux, and free.  I personaly think that if you're going with a BSD that FreeBSD is a better choice though due to it being easier to install and having more software for it natively.

[ June 06, 2002: Message edited by: Heru ]

hoojchoons:
I think that the worst thing about M$'s new OS, is the integration of the Win32 API into the NT kernel, in order to provide a more "stable" and friendly choice to end users. If M$ really wanted a stable operating system, they should definitely stick with the NT kernel which, as far as I'm concerned, was far more stable than the "good" old MS-DOS.

Calum:
there's an easy way to kill the talking dog, you make a DOS startup floppy, boot with it in the drive, then type "format c:".
Let's see that fucking dog recover from that one!

The dog is a failed part of the ill-fated "Microsoft Bob" program, an alternative GUI for windows 3.1. This system was aimed at complete dumbasses, and tried its best to be totally different from MacOS. It was a total bomb, which is why hardly anybody remembers it. Rather than actually pay a designer, though, Microsoft have been using elements of Microsoft Bob in their office and systems software ever since.
to find out more:

here's a boring advert for Microsoft bob
here's an alarming revelation about Microsoft Bob
Here's some guy who thinks Microsoft Bob was a good idea
and here's a picture of that fucking dog in his original habitat!

[ June 06, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

Ice-9:
There is a solution for everything that's not 2000 or XP.(http://www.litepc.com)
Too bad they suspended development for 2000/XP.
IEradicator works for Win2K up to SP1 though!

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