My ideas for XP
Ive been runnin XP here for awhile now, and for the most part like it alot but think the following should be addressed: 1) Make programs like Windows Movie Maker user selectable during the intitail OS install and un-installable at a later time if the user no longer wants or needs to use it.
Ive been runnin XP here for awhile now, and for the most part like it alot but think the following should be addressed:
1) Make programs like Windows Movie Maker user selectable during the intitail OS install and un-installable at a later time if the user no longer wants or needs to use it. All components should be user selectable during the initial install or un-installable afterwards if it's no longer wanted or needed.
2) Finally let Direct X be un-installable and/or be able to step back to a previous version if for some strange reason a DX upgrade messes up a system for whatever reason saving the person from having to do a complete re-install of the OS (I see this happening to people all over the net).
3) I like the fact that msconfig is in there unlike in win2K. A big plus for easily disabling startup FUD that some programs like to put in there slowing down the system (cough, realplayer, cough). I'd also like to see a basic resource meter along with msconfig like in Win9x to see what percentage startup FUD might be eating.
4) Make personall edition support dual CPU or drop personall edition all together, because if games and more apps are to start supporting dual cpu, the developers might not want to waste their time coding for it if the general population only has an OS that supports single cpu. Lets make dual cpu support a standard.
5) Make system restore have more advanced settings because when enabled and in use, it slows down system intensive apps (mainly 3d) to much leaving people like myself with no other choice but to disable it. I don't mind it writing to the HD while doing less system intensive stuff like browsing the net or what not, but my idea is simply to allow the user to have system restore be able to be set to not run during user selected apps/games/etc that you don't want it to. The user could simply select the exe/app or what have ya in the system restore advanced settings which would temporally disable it until the user selected app(s) where shut down.
Just a few of my ideas........
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1) Make programs like Windows Movie Maker user selectable during the intitail OS install and un-installable at a later time if the user no longer wants or needs to use it. All components should be user selectable during the initial install or un-installable afterwards if it's no longer wanted or needed.
2) Finally let Direct X be un-installable and/or be able to step back to a previous version if for some strange reason a DX upgrade messes up a system for whatever reason saving the person from having to do a complete re-install of the OS (I see this happening to people all over the net).
3) I like the fact that msconfig is in there unlike in win2K. A big plus for easily disabling startup FUD that some programs like to put in there slowing down the system (cough, realplayer, cough). I'd also like to see a basic resource meter along with msconfig like in Win9x to see what percentage startup FUD might be eating.
4) Make personall edition support dual CPU or drop personall edition all together, because if games and more apps are to start supporting dual cpu, the developers might not want to waste their time coding for it if the general population only has an OS that supports single cpu. Lets make dual cpu support a standard.
5) Make system restore have more advanced settings because when enabled and in use, it slows down system intensive apps (mainly 3d) to much leaving people like myself with no other choice but to disable it. I don't mind it writing to the HD while doing less system intensive stuff like browsing the net or what not, but my idea is simply to allow the user to have system restore be able to be set to not run during user selected apps/games/etc that you don't want it to. The user could simply select the exe/app or what have ya in the system restore advanced settings which would temporally disable it until the user selected app(s) where shut down.
Just a few of my ideas........
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Haha, so what do you exactly mean by that, James? Should of I just sent them to MS, or does my personal ideas just plain suck
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Well, i'm not a official bug tester like you, just a critique and have no idea where to send my feedback to.
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Because I was under the impression that people from MS might be reading forums (especialy XP topic forums) to gather the most feedback from people using it or ideas people had about it, so they could apply to it, what people want in it. Or am I just fooling myself hehe
I upgraded to the newest version of direct x, oooppss, my graphics are all messed up now, oh, XP now lets you un-install DX and re-install a earlier version without totaly re-intalling the whole OS and having to set everything back up the way it was until there's updated drivers availible for your VGA! XP saves the day! WOOOOHOOO!
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I upgraded to the newest version of direct x, oooppss, my graphics are all messed up now, oh, XP now lets you un-install DX and re-install a earlier version without totaly re-intalling the whole OS and having to set everything back up the way it was until there's updated drivers availible for your VGA! XP saves the day! WOOOOHOOO!
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I think there is only one ranting here and it seems to be the usual. Anyway nothing wrong with posting one's opinions on a forum that is what forums are for. (say that real fast ten times) Anyway window shades would be cool there already close to Mac GUI anyway. Some people need to learn that if they have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all. Words of wisdom.
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Well this is one lame-ASS message board you guys have here
Well, I'll re-register a new name everytime I hit 20 posts, ok? I just re-registered and await my new password for my new name. Back to zero posts every 20 Happy now??????????
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Well, I'll re-register a new name everytime I hit 20 posts, ok? I just re-registered and await my new password for my new name. Back to zero posts every 20 Happy now??????????
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There! Back to zero posts everytime I hit twenty posts! We happy now??
Let's see 739 posts since October 1st, there's been 153 days since October 1st so that's 4.83 total posts per day. So 80% of that means you post 3.86 helpful posts everday. But I'm looking at your posts on this forum and most of what I see is crap. I haven't read all your posts since you started posting but judging from this past week I'd say maybe 20% is helpfull.....
As for removing any program you want it is able to be done you just have to change a file around some. you take sysoc.inf and you edit it so that anything that says hide is delete so if it looks like this
Quote:<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,HIDE,7
</font>
Change it to this
Quote:<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,,7
</font>
Quote:<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,HIDE,7
</font>
Change it to this
Quote:<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,,7
</font>
