Author: Paul
Date: 10:09:29 04/07/01
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On April 07, 2001 at 12:16:04, Pete Galati wrote: >What was going through their minds when they decided we needed a registry??? I >hate that thing, I very seldom venture into that thing, but it probably needs to >be weeded out on this computer. Yeah, you're right about the weeding ... coz what the thing mostly does is grow ... and it never shrinks either ... I remember it being something like a few hundred kByte in the beginning, but the last time I looked it was about 7 MByte (it's the combined sizes of system.dat & user.dat in the windows folder). Now if you don't use too many programs it's easy to reinstall windows, but for me it's a major hassle. The earlier windows versions used to handle the various program settings through the use of separate .ini files in each of the program's folders, a much better system IMHO. >Only the marketing (fill in the blank) at Microsoft could come up with the need >to combine those 2 OSs. Really, this Whistler is really coming out or are you >pulling my leg? I'm pretty darn sure I'd never buy that, my opinion of ME is >pretty low. Hey ... I'm one of the FOG, remember?, I wouldn't dare pulling your leg! Ok ... that's not totally true, I like to tease a little :), but in this case you can check it for yourself overhere: http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2703127,00.html Micro$oft just released a 2nd beta of Whistler (I'm hearing the Good, the Bad & the Ugly in my head now) henceforth to be known as XP. It's supposed to combine the stability of 2k and the user friendlyness / multimedia capability of ME. I think it's a good thing, but don't know much about it yet, and am afraid of the system requirements etc. And the registration policy seems once again (eg. like Chessmaster's copy protection) just to be annoying for the paying customers, whilst the illegal copying crowds won't notice a thing of it. I wish the managers responsible would think up a better solution than this. Paul
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