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Windows at fault - again
psyjax:
quote:Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock:
I don't think so.
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I totaly think so. I have defraged an 80Gb Windows 98 box, thing took for fucking ever, near 3 hours! Defraged my 80GB, under an hour.
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock:
I don't think so.
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You don't think at all, fucktard.
Anyway, as mentioned above the point of this thread is not to argue but to catalogue windows' many flaws.
Well how about this for a start:
yesterday, one of my flatmates used my laptop without my consent or knowledge.
I had finished using linux at about 3 o' clock, and it was sitting on my bed. When i went back at 7 pm to use it again, it was warm (some bugger had just pushed the power button (which puts it to sleep) instead of switching it off) and not only that, it had been booted into windows. It had been used for 5 minutes from 5:37 to 5:42.
On the windows system (it's WinME) i have installed there is only one user, called Windows, and up till last night, i had not set a password (being the trusting soul i am), but i reckoned, oh i had better set the password up now, since some dumbass is trying to use my computer, so i set it, and lo and behold, i get a screen (similar to the X login screen) asking for my password when i switch it on now *but* i can click "cancel" instead and login as nobody!
Of course you know how on windows, once you log in, you can have access to all the system files and so on? so all you need do is press "cancel" and you immediately get the authority to wipe out the entire system? useless.
All that login screen does is act as a 3 second confusion until the intruder thinks of clicking "cancel"!
Try to go into control panel and open the "Users" control panel and, woops! it brings up the "Internet Options" panel instead! ho can this be? my installation of windows must be FUCKED (oh surely not!) how could an OS possibly allow this to happen to itself?!? try opening the "Internet Options" panel, and you get... "Internet Options" so how do i get to the "Users" panel?
I tried searching the registry, but windows users are deliberately kept in the dark about how to edit their *own* registry, so now all i need is the right info to put into a dos box (which i should be able to find in the registry) in order to open up the "Users" control panel. i don't know and don't care how to do this. it is not worth the excessive ag that it has involved.
I did open up a dos box and half heartedly give it a go, but after linux, who can be arsed?
note to gooseberry clock, let's not have any of your smartarse solutions to this problem please, i know you will say something like "are you sure you are clicking the right icon in the control panel?" so before you start, shut up. thankyou.
[ March 18, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
Druid:
Calum:
WinME, as you are aware, is a POS, and like all the 9x series of Microsoft's finest it has no security features worth talking about. If you need a MS system with some security, use the NT systems (NT4 or 2000)-but not XP! At least with these if you don't have a password you can't bypass the login screen and access the system.
Druid
Master of Reality:
windows flaw #142: the setup program.
the setup program is utterly useless in helping install windows. You can't choose any of your computers options. You have little choice of useless windows programs that you can leave out.
And it fuck itself over: I recently tried to install windows, for some inane reason. I started on a start-up disk, went into setup through the CD.
After setup install *some* of the OS files, halfway through install, it needs to restart.
So i let it automatically do its thing, in fear that if i touch this incredibly unstable program it might explode, it spits out my start-up disk, restarts, and behold, it says cannot find Operating System. I tried to go back into the setup program, to see if i could get back to the install step i was on... NO, had to restart from beginning
I tried getting into windows....Not enough of the system files were installed yet.
Windoze had caught itself in what i call a "loop of stupidity"
so, like an insane dog trying to catch its own tail for days at a time... i had to *euthanize* windoze
windows flaw #93: IE hidden files.
*go look at the feature article*
[ March 18, 2002: Message edited by: Druaga ]
Centurian:
Hey,
quote:Originally posted by Druaga:
windows flaw #142: the setup program.
the setup program is utterly useless in helping install windows. You can't choose any of your computers options. You have little choice of useless windows programs that you can leave out.
And it fuck itself over: I recently tried to install windows, for some inane reason. I started on a start-up disk, went into setup through the CD.
After setup install *some* of the OS files, halfway through install, it needs to restart.
So i let it automatically do its thing, in fear that if i touch this incredibly unstable program it might explode, it spits out my start-up disk, restarts, and behold, it says cannot find Operating System. I tried to go back into the setup program, to see if i could get back to the install step i was on... NO, had to restart from beginning
I tried getting into windows....Not enough of the system files were installed yet.
Windoze had caught itself in what i call a "loop of stupidity"
so, like an insane dog trying to catch its own tail for days at a time... i had to *euthanize* windoze
[ March 18, 2002: Message edited by: Druaga ]
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Sorry to say this but that one is your own fault. Windows does warn you to remove any floppies. It also tells you that in case of error to turn the machine off wait a few seconds and turn it back on. That way the auto-recovery will activate. It is writtne on the screen for you to read just prior to it rebooting itself. At least that is true for Windows 98 so I would guess the same applies to later versions also.
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