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    I spent 2 grand upgrading my 5 year old laptop to one that had four times the hardware grunt and runs everything at half the speed.

    Woohoo.

    Though I blame HP and their integrated bloated worthless resource hogging spyware junk as much as I do MS and their logic defying bloatware.

    And of course myself for being in a rush and buying an HP laptop rather then waiting for an Asus one.

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    O/T now, but Windows 2000 was the best OS Microsoft ever made. Stable, simple, and little in the way of overhead (well, for a Windows variant at least). XP was mainly just a fancy theme and lots of bloat -- oh, and that product activation PITA.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xwhatsit View Post
    O/T now, but Windows 2000 was the best OS Microsoft ever made. ...
    Bah. DOS 6.22 FTW. Still use it.
    Quote Originally Posted by skidmark
    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion View Post
    Bah. DOS 6.22 FTW. Still use it.
    So do I, but I wouldn't call it an `Operating System'. Barely qualifies as a resident monitor and a shell.

    BTW, FreeDOS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger View Post
    You're shitting me?
    There should be some sort of award for perseverence, because damn, you deserve it.
    I too am amazed. Surely the System Restore cache should be bigger than the hard drive by now.

    Get a copy of XP and she'll be sweet.
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xwhatsit View Post
    O/T now, but Windows 2000 was the best OS Microsoft ever made. Stable, simple, and little in the way of overhead (well, for a Windows variant at least).
    Yes, but it took six service packs to get there. Personally I think Windows XP SP2 Corporate Edition is better.
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

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    Four Service Packs.

    NT was the one with 8 err, 6.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pogo2 View Post
    The one I had brought was a Philips Go Gear 2MB player for 'er indoors. But now I might need to have a look and those that have drag and drop function.
    Quote Originally Posted by Max Preload View Post
    I totally disagree - there's nothing inherently wrong with Win2k. It's still the CAD OS of choice for me - stable with little overhead.
    Quote Originally Posted by xwhatsit View Post
    O/T now, but Windows 2000 was the best OS Microsoft ever made. Stable, simple, and little in the way of overhead (well, for a Windows variant at least). XP was mainly just a fancy theme and lots of bloat -- oh, and that product activation PITA.
    I have a Philips GoGear 1Gb MP3 unit....it came with it's own software, which I loaded. BUT...since then I had a C Drive meltdown and had to fit a new hard drive, meaning a fresh install of all software etc. I never bothered to reload the GoGear sw since the player has what I want on it for the moment.
    In view of your post I just attached the unit to a USB port, The system recognised the thing and simply reads it as a mass storage device, drag n drop capable. So why won't yours? Is it the drivers in XP?

    As for W2000 being stable...that has not been my experience with it.
    I started using a computer with 3.1, and subsequently 95, 98, 2000 and XP. Barring the odd 'blue screen of death...twunk/kernel' thing (simply reboot and away again) in 95, no OS gave me a problem except 2000, which totally spat the dummy 3 times in under 6 months. Each time requiring a total format and re-install. For me it was utter crap.
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    As for W2000 being stable...that has not been my experience with it.
    I started using a computer with 3.1, and subsequently 95, 98, 2000 and XP. Barring the odd 'blue screen of death...twunk/kernel' thing (simply reboot and away again) in 95, no OS gave me a problem except 2000, which totally spat the dummy 3 times in under 6 months. Each time requiring a total format and re-install. For me it was utter crap.
    I accept that is your experience with win 2k, however the reality is that one machine is not really representitive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Headbanger View Post
    I spent 2 grand upgrading my 5 year old laptop to one that had four times the hardware grunt and runs everything at half the speed.

    Woohoo.

    Though I blame HP and their integrated bloated worthless resource hogging spyware junk as much as I do MS and their logic defying bloatware.

    And of course myself for being in a rush and buying an HP laptop rather then waiting for an Asus one.
    If you go into control panel you can uninstall the HP integrated bloated worthless resource hogging spyware junk . FWIW Asus are currently worse than HP in this regard, though I am sure HP will overtake them again shortly.
    Quote Originally Posted by Tank
    You say "no one wants to fuck with some large bloke on a really angry sounding bike" but the truth of the matter is that you are a balding middle-aged ice-cream seller from Edgecume who wears a hello kitty t-shirt (in your profile pic) and your angry sounding bike is a fucken hyoshit - not some big assed harley with a human skull on the front.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger View Post
    If you go into control panel you can uninstall the HP integrated bloated worthless resource hogging spyware junk . FWIW Asus are currently worse than HP in this regard, though I am sure HP will overtake them again shortly.
    Dell used to be awesome years ago... now they are just like the rest... 30min to an hour just getting rid of stuff, before you can start setting it up
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger View Post
    If you go into control panel you can uninstall the HP integrated bloated worthless resource hogging spyware junk . FWIW Asus are currently worse than HP in this regard, though I am sure HP will overtake them again shortly.
    No on this one,, the vast majority of it has no uninstall facility,And even those that did left behind huge amounts of redundant files, registry entries, services and other such crap. Its not designed to be removed. Its deep and many layered.Although Decrapifier managed to force the issue and at least make the laptop usable.

    In comparison the Asus I was looking at had 4 easily removal items.

    The only real cure is to not buy an HP laptop, or to format and install from a Vista CD, assuming the supplied key works on a copy of Vista obtained outside of HP channels.

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    I'm one of last of the late updaters when it comes to software - I prefer to wait until everyone else has ironed out the majority of the problems before committing myself to a change because a change that impacts on my work and costs me time really pisses me off.

    I only went from 98SE to Pro 2k in 2005 but since then I've had no significant OS problems. I always do a complete clean install, never an 'upgrade'. I always think carefully before installing any software and I flatly refuse to install the idiot interfaces that come with peripherals like cameras etc.
    If it wasn't for a concise set of rules, we might have to resort to common sense!

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    Its not too bad.

    Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger View Post
    You're shitting me?
    There should be some sort of award for perseverence, because damn, you deserve it.
    Occaissional it shits itself - I just give it the old reset, let it do its self check and away we go to the next time.

    I started me thinking about engineered obsolecence and the money generated by that and the money that families shell out to keep up with the latest version. Alot of people don't seem to pleased with Vista from what I read here anyways.

    Havent decided what to do yet. Might get the wife a radio - no issues there!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    Four Service Packs.

    NT was the one with 8 err, 6.

    Well, 7 really cos NT4 SP6 terminally and totally broke the system. And required SP 6a to fix it. Except that you couldn't get online to obtain Sp6a cos Sp 6 broke RAS.

    Actually, W2K, Xp (and Vista probably though I haven't checked because I refuse to go within 20 foot of anything running the mutant abortion) are all still NT . Go look at the internal version numbering. W2K is NT5 , XP is NT5a.
    Quote Originally Posted by skidmark
    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer

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