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........
The Questionnaire
[This message has been edited by Questionnaire (edited 01 March 2001).]
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........
The Questionnaire
[This message has been edited by Questionnaire (edited 01 March 2001).]
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I don't see how you all can get so many posts.I want to get to 500 for me
Questionnaire, I agree that dual processor support should be standard. I don't believe however that games will be supporting dual processor support any time soon. The Geforce 3 does most of the polygon crunching & the T&L. The processor is left to do the AI & physics, which if you have over a 600Mhz processor, can handle easily. The Geforce 3 has better memory bandwidth than a normal computer & its own 200Mhz processor. I do believe that eventually dual processor support will be standard, but the way graphics cards are improving every 6 months, I don't believe that games will be the cause of the new standard. Of course this is all IMHO.
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Athlon 700 @ 770
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Hercules Prophet 32Mb DDR
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Athlon 700 @ 770
Epox 7kxa
256Mb PC133
Hercules Prophet 32Mb DDR
Sound Blaster X-Gamer
Pioneer 16x DVD
HP 9100i CD-RW
2-30gig 7200RPM WD HD
ViewSonic PF790 19"
Win98SE
Full Tower
Okay enough said there
