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Vista VS front end?
Endaar:
--- Quote ---I've run BSD/X-Windows in 8M.
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And DOS ran with 256K. Heck, there was even some sort of text-mode windowing shell available at the time. There's plenty of arguments that could be made in favor of any OS, but with as cheap as memory and HDD space are these days, resource requirements are kinda irrelevent.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: Endaar on March 29, 2009, 06:41:30 pm ---SavannahLion - something is wrong with your mom's PC. I'd check to see just how much junk is running in the background. Some PC vendors are notorious for pre-installing a lot of stuff you don't need and probably don't want that can slow things down.
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I did an initial stripping of the OS, but not a full blown treatment. Removed obvious BS crap like 3rd party auto-update, useless anti-virii, and some silly online backup software ???. Didn't get a chance to really dig in and deal with the hidden 3rd party ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- and Microsoft's own crap.
But that's not really the point I was trying to get at. The point is that Microsoft really needs to start focusing on trimming the existing fat out of their OS or, failing that, making it a hell of a lot easier for end users to do so. As it stands now, you have to dig around in a lot of areas of the system to clean it up. I could do it with Win98 entirely within the registry. With Microsoft's more recent OSes it takes a little bit more work and digging around to trim it up.