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close the broken window in XP.

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sporkme:
call me when you cross the year mark.  DONT UPGRADE THAT FUCKER!

of course, my FREE operating system............  I AM NOT GETTING INTO IT

AlexMax:
You must be one of the flukes.  There are one or two systems out of every thousand from my experiences that run Windows perfectly and flawlessly.  Someone must have really gotten your system tweaked to be JUST SO....which isn't a bad thing, Linux users do stuff like that all the time, you're just paying $200 more for XP and you got lucky with your system configuration.

I would go into how Linux can be tweaked to be stable on almost any system, (which I have NEVER been able to do with ANY version of Windows), but nah...a certain 12 year old might start biting at my ankles and frankly I'm too tired right now to b**ch at him.

Zombie9920:

quote:Originally posted by AlexMax:
You must be one of the flukes.  There are one or two systems out of every thousand from my experiences that run Windows perfectly and flawlessly.  Someone must have really gotten your system tweaked to be JUST SO....which isn't a bad thing, Linux users do stuff like that all the time, you're just paying $200 more for XP and you got lucky with your system configuration.
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I build my own systems(I choose my own configuration), I do all of the tweaking to my system, etc. Simply put, Windows does not give out any problems *if* you know what you are doing with your comp. With a simple memory timing value change in the BIOS I could turn my stable ass system into an unstable mule. There are alot of aspects that can make a system unstable...most of the time it is from faulty hardware or improper BIOS configurations though. Other causes of system instability are having poorly coded apps installed on your OS(god knows there are alot of poorly written apps for Win32), you messed with the heart of your OS(like the registry in Windows) and screwed something up, you are using un-certified drivers, etc. Most of the time it isn't the OS'es fault that the user doesn't know what he/she is doing.

[ August 05, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

lazygamer:
You know how you delete that SVCHOST.exe right? Would it fool XP if you deleted it, created a blank text file and then renamed the text file SVCHOST.exe, then make that file "read only"?

Did Big Bill ever imagine that scenario? Theoretically that might make it possible to permanantly keep your computer free of that file...

beltorak0:
it probably runs a checksum on it, or if it fails to run, simply restores it.  which would make me wonder: why the hell is it necessary if it is created from the os anyway?

As for the fluke; i hear that win 2k/me/xp are much more stable if they aren't upgrades; which is to say that they need to be clean installs.  As in off the oem shelf.

anyway, -t.

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