crappy windows software

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Am I not the only person that thinks XP, as well as all
the other gash that has gone before, is the buggiest
piece of shitty software to be produced by the monster?
In its inability to be compatible with other (superior)
software, It's like a petulant child that refuses to play
fair. And because there's no alternative, apart from
Linux or Mac, which is more expensive, we are stuffed.
It's the computer equivalent of being compelled to eat
Macdonalds every day and feel happy!

There, I've said it, Windows operating systems are duff.
Really duff. I can't carry on being dishonest any more.
 
Then you can write your own superior product. There I feel
better now.


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message | Am I not the only person that thinks XP, as well as all
| the other gash that has gone before, is the buggiest
| piece of shitty software to be produced by the monster?
| In its inability to be compatible with other (superior)
| software, It's like a petulant child that refuses to play
| fair. And because there's no alternative, apart from
| Linux or Mac, which is more expensive, we are stuffed.
| It's the computer equivalent of being compelled to eat
| Macdonalds every day and feel happy!
|
| There, I've said it, Windows operating systems are duff.
| Really duff. I can't carry on being dishonest any more.
 
Pretty narrow view from Lippo - MS-DOS 3.30a was superb. Windows for
Workgroups was acceptable. & Win-98 SE was OK too.

But, I still fail to see why people defend XP - I still (daily) crash things
like File Manager or some other M$ product - is that supposed to be quality
? I will repeat my ongoing criticism - M$ needs to address compatibility
between it's products, as well as addressing downward/backward
compatibility. I have had quite a few problems running Office 97 on XP Home
& my M$ buddy at work just says "But a newer version of Office" - but I
don't want a newer version - I like 97 - when it works, 97 gives me all the
functionality I need. I am NOT going to spend $100 to upgrade.

Right now, I am considering re-installing 98 SE - everything I have, worked
on that.
 
You can always go back to a shoe box and index cards! But when you lose a
card you would probably try to blame it on the wife/kids anyway! Obviously
YOU don't do anything wrong with your system!

Funny that many millions of people have no problems at all with Windows XP.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
Windows XP doesn't have "file manager"! So, what are you crashing?

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
Richard Urban said:
You can always go back to a shoe box and index cards! But when you lose a
card you would probably try to blame it on the wife/kids anyway! Obviously
YOU don't do anything wrong with your system!

Funny that many millions of people have no problems at all with Windows XP.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
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And that's exactly the problem - everyone else is (allegedly) OK.

I DON'T CARE IF EVERYONE ELSE HAS NO PROBLEMS (?). The one O/S I currently
have running fails on a regular basis. File Manager/Windows Explorer (I
still remember when I saw almost the same thing in XTREE GOLD) has failed
more than once just by trying to open a folder. Windows Media Player fails
every so often, Office fails about twice a week (it would fail more, if I
used it more). Currently my DVD, CD & floppy drives can't see when a disk
has been insterted 90% of the time. The drives have been working fine. Now
I've given up trying to use any of my removable media drives.

When I ran 98 SE, I really didn't have anything like as many problems as
now. No other product that I have in my house fails as often as my M$
products.
 
And that's exactly the problem - everyone else is (allegedly) OK.

I DON'T CARE IF EVERYONE ELSE HAS NO PROBLEMS (?). The one O/S I
currently have running fails on a regular basis. File Manager/Windows
Explorer (I still remember when I saw almost the same thing in XTREE
GOLD) has failed more than once just by trying to open a folder.
Windows Media Player fails every so often, Office fails about twice a
week (it would fail more, if I used it more). Currently my DVD, CD &
floppy drives can't see when a disk has been insterted 90% of the
time. The drives have been working fine. Now I've given up trying to
use any of my removable media drives.

When I ran 98 SE, I really didn't have anything like as many problems
as now. No other product that I have in my house fails as often as my
M$ products.
Click to expand...

Microsoft definitely makes buggy software. That said, lets see if we can
get your system in a more stable state. Run utilities that will look for
problems on your disk -- checkdisk, anti-virus check (download up-to-date
definitions), anti-spyware (Spybot, Ad-Aware, and Spyware Blaster).
Consider installing more secure e-mail and web browser programs than IE
and Outlook Express -- Netscape and Opera come to mind. Then run a
program that cleans out the cobwebs in the registry ... something like
RegVac. If after all that, your computer is still unstable, reinstall
Windows from CD.
 
Does anyone else smell wet troll here?

Stop your whining.As others have stated, there are many millions of people
running stable installation of many versions of Windows. You have
options...use them. Either do a format and reinstall, or pay a professional
to work the bugs out of your system. Your petulant attitude and whiney,
sniveling little posts are a waste of bandwidth. If you want to vent, go
have a beer...go kick something...but stop wasting everyone else's time with
your petty little rants.

Bobby
 
Sounds like you have bad hardware.


| And that's exactly the problem - everyone else is
(allegedly) OK.
|
| I DON'T CARE IF EVERYONE ELSE HAS NO PROBLEMS (?). The one
O/S I currently
| have running fails on a regular basis. File
Manager/Windows Explorer (I
| still remember when I saw almost the same thing in XTREE
GOLD) has failed
| more than once just by trying to open a folder. Windows
Media Player fails
| every so often, Office fails about twice a week (it would
fail more, if I
| used it more). Currently my DVD, CD & floppy drives can't
see when a disk
| has been insterted 90% of the time. The drives have been
working fine. Now
| I've given up trying to use any of my removable media
drives.
|
| When I ran 98 SE, I really didn't have anything like as
many problems as
| now. No other product that I have in my house fails as
often as my M$
| products.
|
|
|
|
|
in message
| | > You can always go back to a shoe box and index cards!
But when you lose a
| > card you would probably try to blame it on the wife/kids
anyway! Obviously
| > YOU don't do anything wrong with your system!
| >
| > Funny that many millions of people have no problems at
all with Windows
| XP.
| >
| > --
| > Regards:
| >
| > Richard Urban
| >
| > aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
| >
message
| > | > > Am I not the only person that thinks XP, as well as
all
| > > the other gash that has gone before, is the buggiest
| > > piece of shitty software to be produced by the
monster?
| > > In its inability to be compatible with other
(superior)
| > > software, It's like a petulant child that refuses to
play
| > > fair. And because there's no alternative, apart from
| > > Linux or Mac, which is more expensive, we are stuffed.
| > > It's the computer equivalent of being compelled to eat
| > > Macdonalds every day and feel happy!
| > >
| > > There, I've said it, Windows operating systems are
duff.
| > > Really duff. I can't carry on being dishonest any
more.
| >
| >
|
|
 
Actually, I think the old Windows 3.1 file manager can be loaded in XP, or
maybe it's there if you've upgraded that many times. I know I've seen it.
 
Lippo said:
Linux or Mac, which is more expensive, we are stuffed.
It's the computer equivalent of being compelled to eat
Macdonalds every day and feel happy!
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Linux is MORE expensive, LOL. It is much less expensive, and a very nice OS if I may say so. MAC, OTOH, is more expensive, and not as good, though i give it a thumbs up on anything for use in media with MAC, it is much better there. But XP is far away the best OS MS has ever produced. I think it works just fine. Typically, these posts are troll posts, or the complainer just doesn't know how to setup a properly running OS with their hardwares.
There, I've said it, Windows operating systems are duff.
Really duff. I can't carry on being dishonest any more.
Click to expand...

Whose being dishonest, you or MS? Since you give no details, nor do you ask for any help, you are no more than a troll.
 
NoNoBadDog! said:
Does anyone else smell wet troll here?
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Nope, not a wet troll - I'm a software integration engineer (maily
supporting developers, who create software bridging Z/OS & AIX). I've been
developing software since the 70's.

Many of the M$ application & O/S uncontroled abnormal completions are
preventable. But M$ seems intent on improving the features and performance
(and to a lesser extent, the scalability) of their software, without
improving the robustness (or the supportability). it's like early M$-DOS was
the Model-T. Now we have a 1950's Chevy, with modern features tacked on like
A/C, GPS & an MP3 player. But it's still an ill-handling, slow, heavy
vehicle underneath that leaks fluids & breaks down often (but looks cool).

Do you object if a consumer, after paying money for a product, finds fault
with the product ? If I drive my '99 Corvette to work & the engine cuts out
every day & I have to pull over & restart the engine - is that OK ?

A man walks in to a bar & is chatting with a bunch of his friends. One
friend asks "why are you looking so sad" ? The man responds "I just found
out I have cancer". The friend responds "well that's no excuse for looking
glum. The rest of us are fine & healthy".......That's how I view your
"petulant attitude and whiney" comment - it makes no difference to me, if
no-one else has my problem. My problem has made my PC almost unusable, for
what I want to do.

I posted my problem on half a dozen XP NG's to see if anyone could help.
I've responded to one or two other posts, where I thought I might be able to
help. I didn't start this thread - I just agreed with Lippo.

If you want to see a useful response - see ND's response higher up this
thread.

P.S. Some of my criticisms also apply to OS X & Red Hat 9.
 
ND said:
Microsoft definitely makes buggy software. That said, lets see if we can
get your system in a more stable state. Run utilities that will look for
problems on your disk -- checkdisk, anti-virus check (download up-to-date
definitions), anti-spyware (Spybot, Ad-Aware, and Spyware Blaster).
Consider installing more secure e-mail and web browser programs than IE
and Outlook Express -- Netscape and Opera come to mind. Then run a
program that cleans out the cobwebs in the registry ... something like
RegVac. If after all that, your computer is still unstable, reinstall
Windows from CD.
Click to expand...

Thanks.

I do already run a daily virsus scan & a weekly run of Adware 6.0 (updating
it, before each scan. It normally just finds cookies. As I have a router &
third party firewall, I'm not too desparate to change from IE & OE. I tried
Opera & I found it far more efficitent with memory use (I could start the
same homepage in IE & Opera & both took about 20 Meg. But Opera released
most of it soon afterwards.Also, I kinda like Xnews too. If I can get my
iBook up & running again, I'll be back to using Safari, Mail (& Thoth for
Usenet). I used to use MS Entourage as a mail client....................but
it kept crashing :o)

But I will try RegVac. I've never been keen on manually editing the
registry - I didn't want to take the time, to learn how. I think I'll
recheck my router settings too - see if I can improve. So, I don't think
I'll bother with SP2 for now - I think the risk of breaking something is
greater than the improvements it brings. I'm waiting to do a clean install
of Longhorn, once the official version ships.

I'm off now to talk to Iomega about their DVD drive (after 4 hours today,
I've come to the conclusion it's doing some weird stuff).

Thanks again.................Dave C.
 
Many drive to work in a Corvette that does not cut out.. does the fact that
your Corvette cuts out make them all bad?.. hardly.. you have problems with
XP but I don't.. that doesn't make my installation of XP bad..

You talk of stability being sacrificed for performance.. you have to look no
further than an IBM SP, great when they are running and perfect pigs when
they are not.. ultimate performance perches awkwardly on the edge between
stability and chaos.. it is how well we as individuals manage the balance
act that determines whether we will see success or look into the face of
abject failure..

Mike

PS.. check your fuel filter
 
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