Removing unwanted software
witch:
I know what you mean Wes, I hate the MSN, MSN messenger, MSN bloody gambling. I hate seeing a list of 'Microsoft' stuff on my machine.
My son played a CD on his new computer the day before yesterday, in Windows bloody media player, the next time Windows booted it wanted activation. My mate said Windows is really picky about Dells because so many are compromised with pirated Windows. So my son's machine decided it had had a hardware change. From playing a CD.
Winamp now has the media job, because it mostly behaves itself.
ZiggyDoodle:
Hang on to your current OS, unless you're planning to move to a Mac or Linux. The initial reviews for Vista are not at all stellar.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128305/article.html
http://blogs.pcworld.com/tipsandtweaks/archives/003385.html
Just what we want: a new OS that will run our apps slower, suck up the battery power on our laptops, and maybe even disable our audio equipment.
KatEnigma:
Quote from: ZiggyDoodle on 2007 January 04, 16:05:31
Hang on to your current OS, unless you're planning to move to a Mac or Linux. The initial reviews for Vista are not at all stellar.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128305/article.html
http://blogs.pcworld.com/tipsandtweaks/archives/003385.html
Just what we want: a new OS that will run our apps slower, suck up the battery power on our laptops, and maybe even disable our audio equipment.
This isn't exactly news. ;) I've been hearing this for months and months now. And it was predicted as soon as they started talking about the Aero Glass desktop- the RAM and processing power had to come from somewhere. The only surprising thing was that reports I've heard/read have said that turning it off doesn't improve the performance all that much.
wes_h:
Quote from: numaari on 2007 January 04, 03:25:33
I wish I hadn't done it. Everything still works, but when I use my software management program, it has wierd holes and invalid stuff where the Windows stuff had been. Bugs me worse than the actual unused stuff did. Sigh.
I don't know about your software management program, but I had a few issues after rebooting until I went into the registry and removed all the guid and file things that referenced the DLLs in the Movie Maker directory. I still haven't found where it keeps the "C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\" directory reference it uses, because it locks that directory so I can't delete it. I know I could do it in DOS mode, but I hate the sight of a DOS prompt.
I also disabled some services that run for no apparent reason. Like Telephony. This is a f**king home computer, not a telephone thingy. So far, I haven't found anything I use that won't work with this disabled.
I also saw the early reviews of Vista (nee Longhorn). I don't plan to even think about upgrading until Service Pack 2 or so comes out. None of Microscrap's software worked very well until SR 2. This was true (IMO) for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT4 and Windows XP. While I may wait two more years for that, nothing I see right now makes me want a newer computer (some more RAM and a higher powered graphics card may be in the cards before then).
Paperbladder:
The worst things about Vista when I tried the RC1 version not including the horrible lag is the additional software they include with it like "Windows Defender" and the new version of WMP that is forcing my MP3 player to autodock. Even though the upgrade would only be $5 for me, if they hadn't fixed that problem with WMP 11 or allow you to rollback to 10 then I'm sticking with XP.
Why does Microsoft insist I need something like "Windows Defender" anyway? Anti-virus software removes most of that crap. I know you can turn it off but you can't remove it like the rest of MS's programs.
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