You said it. Every SW I own works with XP. You don't need Virtual boxes to run old PCB layouts or simulators with. You can cut and paste without any problems. It is eventually stable as a rock and I have not had any spy-ware virus attack in 2 years with no virus protection. Viva-la XP!
I'm kinda with you there, Nico. I actually liked Win 2000 best, it was basically XP without the childish interface. Tho it must have been a little different underneath because some XP driver didn't work well with it.
The newer MS versions do some nice things, like better power management and much faster boot times. Other than that, I don't really see what's better with the new stuff. Maybe networking?
The newer MS versions do some nice things, like better power management and much faster boot times. Other than that, I don't really see what's better with the new stuff. Maybe networking?
Saw that over the weekend
It is actually quite amazing how much privacy stuff you will probably want to turn off in a win10 if you bother to peruse the settings menu - and apparently there is quite a bit you can't turn off.
The shifty things they have been doing to get people to upgrade.
I have a win10 desktop and laptop - both have SSD's and neither has automatically upgraded to anniversary edition last I checked.
The machines do boot incredibly fast, though, even though they are 8-10 year old machines.
Different code base actually. It was what in earlier times would have been called Win NT 5.0 but they decided to call it Win 2000.. A fairly good OS, but XP was a massive improvement/evolution.
Tank Mooly
Got it
Why can't Microwhatever make things simple as this ?
There are a number of command prompt executables that do a few marvellous things :
1. Right click start button
2. Select Command Prompt (Administrator)
3. Type sfc /scannow and let it complete
4. Reboot your P
This cured a bad reinstall by repairing corrupted files
Where one find the list and what they do ?
These security 'concerns' have been ongoing from the very start with W10 but no one at MS is spying on your bank details or watching you input passwords etc. That could all have been done back in XP days if they wanted... and would you know if they did ?
Agreed over the way Ten was 'forced' onto people though. I was happy with, and liked W8.1 but the constant updates related to the Ten upgrade killed the experience, as did all the nag screens to get Ten. Users should have been able to opt out of all that.
Now Ten is here though, I wouldn't go back by choice to an earlier OS.
It is one thing to use the OS that is being pushed on you. It is another to use a buggy and annoying browser 'just because'. There is no reason to when better options are available.
After trying to use 'edge' exclusively for a week or so just to familiarize myself with it, I installed chrome and never looked back. I run adblock plus in chrome and many sites don't like that, so I will paste the url in edge. If edge then doesn't work, I don't use the site.
One really annoying thing in edge. If I open a bunch of tabs for articles on a news site by middle clicking links, edge will run all the ads and videos in them simultaneously. at best this is annoying, at worst, it crashes. Ever have problems closing tabs in edge? Happens all the time for me. Sometimes I have to kill the program because it won't close or stops responding.
Chrome doesn't have any of these problems.
Yes, and often. It is an issue MS are aware of and are looking to fix.
I'm not saying Ten is perfect or that Edge is perfect, just that on the whole I genuinely like the user experience.
Hilarious...... These kind of problems are easily fixed in software and it's a disgrace the problem exists in Edge.
There had to be some (lots of?) common code, and XP NTFS certainly came from NT, although different in ways I no longer remember, but the way that it handled installation, addition of new hardware, configuration changes and external peripherals was light years better than what I experienced during the few years I used Windows NT 4.0 - and the IT department where I worked at the time was firmly in the Apple camp and was happy to get me a PC and the software, but I had to get it all to work. LOL I also used DOS to run an Audio Precision System 1 which was a very important tool in my daily work - also unsupported.
Later I used Win 2000 for a while, and found it significantly better than NT4.0, but XP seemed quite the leap by comparison. (Let's not talk the Millenium Edition [ME] LOL)
Best I can remember Microsoft referred to WinXP internally as NT5.1 and as part of the NT family. Interoperability was not always good with versions of software written for Win2000 (NT5.0) and earlier. (Some stuff ran ok in emulation mode at least as late as Service Pack 1) DOS support became more and more limited with each service pack. I still run one machine with SP3, soon to be retired hopefully.
My comments are based on recollections that go back at least 14 - 17 yrs so I would consider them at best anecdotal in nature.
Someone from the MS Edge team has registered with the forum so that they can see posts as we see them and hopefully to try and reproduce the issues. Soon that.
The issue has now been confirmed by MS. And its not just on vBulletin sites either as I was able to recreate the issue elsewhere.
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