Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 13:47:20 09/13/02
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>>Why get rid of something you installed yourself? > > > >You are getting dense, Peter. No.. I think you just hate Microsoft and must rant against anyone who can get it to run properly. > >1) I did not install it. >2) I do not want it but was not allowed to buy the machine without it. >3) I CANNOT remove it. You chose to buy a Toshiba laptop with it installed. Not me. I CHOSE to purchase Windows XP. If they don't want to sell you a laptop without an OS then that is their problem. You as the consumer _can_ go elsewhere. I have bought many computers without an OS. It is not difficult to do. In fact my HP laptop came with Red Hat pre-installed. I have another Dell computer that came with _no_ operating system. It was a "configure to order" system. >>>It is difficult to know what it does exactly. >> >>Your the one at the controls... > > > >Good joke. > >The bloody stuff insists everytime I launch it to download things from the >Internet. Sometimes it starts downloading without asking. I have to click as >fast as possible on the Cancel button to stop the download. > >I DON'T WANT UPDATES TO BE INSTALLED AUTOMATICALLY. Ok simple.. right click on "My Computer", goto "Automatic Updates" and turn them off. Was that hard? > >Most updates from Microsoft are likely to BREAK something on my computer. I have >spent the last 20 years dealing with M$ software bugs, I know what I'm talking >about. You are an "experienced" Windows 9x user. Not a NT user. Get used to the new kernel and all goes well. Trust me. I have used Windows NT since 4.0 first came out. There definately is a learning curve that must be done. > >Now what I want is to be productive and stop spending most of my time on the >computer fixing the OS. Learn how to properly use it and you _can_ be productive. > >I prefer to use buggy, slightly outdated software. Because once I have found a >way to workaround the bugs, I'm productive. If that crappy OS downloads updates >every day, I'm going to be faced with new problems daily. > >I don't care if it is possible to disable this behaviour somewhere. > >What matters is that 99% of the users are not able to find this setting. So 99% >of the users of that VIRUS are going to download and execute loads of programs >without their consent, and most of the time without even knowing it. > >That's exactly the definition of a virus. It's going to install and execute >without you knowing it. > > > > >>>Eventually it crashes your computer, leaving you in trouble. >> >>90% of Windows crashes are user related, or software conflicts between versions >>of programs that YOU install. > > > >That's not true and you know it. > >The OS is inherently lousy. > >An buggy application can corrupt the OS and crash every other running >application. > >Because of this, Windows hardly deserves to be called an "OS". > >My computer, when running Windows, crashes 10 times a day. Sometimes, just >closing an Internet connection crashes the system. > >I have *NEVER* seen this under Linux. > >But if all you know is Windows, sure you like it. Don't ever try anything else, >it would be a big shock for you... Look above and you can see I use Red Hat on my laptop and Windows on my home and office machines. I _know_ other operating systems enough to be productive in them. I am by no means a linux guru. I do _know_ how to use them though. I have been running Windows XP since it came out. I have _never_ had it crash other than due to a bad sound driver which under Linux can happen. As I said.. 90% of the crashes are USER related.
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