windows big brother updates

[danny_galaga]

is it just me or is this new xp update holding my hand just a little too tightly?

[Lilwolf]

You just have to watch out what the other hand is grabbing...

[abrannan]

is it just me or is this new xp update holding my hand just a little too tightly?

With the new media player, yes.  With the security updates, speaking as an IT security professional, it's unfortunately the only reliable way to go.  My worry is that we'll have more vulnerabilities like this JPG one, where only about half of the programs will auto-update, and the others will still be vulnerable, and people won't patch.

[fredster]

Danny,

I agree on that one.  My XP box never stopped doing something.  I kept it offline and it hated it, all the time wanting to go online for something.  All the time there was something going on with it.  It kept changing itself and I didn't like it either.  

I opted to go back to 98SE.  I think I should have choosen 2000 pro instead, but I didn't at the time.

I look in the process window and XP is doing a whole bunch of crap all the time.  My HDD light is all the time running. I didn't like it either. I didn't know what these processes were, I didn't start them.  I'm not an IT guy and I don't enjoy relearning a new operating system.

I don't like my computer telling me crap to do.  To me it's like a car complaining about my driving and asking for an oil change.

I didn't update either.  Some of the patches were HUGE and all I had was a dial up.  3/4 of the time I tried the update it stalled because my dialup ISP dropped for whatever reason.  It took me 5 hours to download once and it screwed up when it was 98% complete.  I am not committing that much time to it, simple as that.

I patched the worms that caused my system to shutdown, but that was it.  My system got slower and slower and slower to the point it would hardly run over the year I used it.  

I could have reloaded, but I said the hell with it.  Give me an operating system where the bugs are worked out.  I haven't found one yet.

I don't like Unix or Red Hat,  Nothing runs in Dos anymore.  98 was easy to use but hung up, 2000 is pretty stable, but XP is "sneaky".  

[danny_galaga]

hehe, well fredster we can agree on something!! i'm tempted to go back to win98se so that 1) microsoft stop hassling me and 2) less chance of being hit by viruses anyway. i've got an idea of having a win98se box connected to the net and then networking what i need to an xp box. thats because xp DOES have a lot of drivers n stuff that are a bother to try and make work on win98...

[fredster]

I have been considering 2000 instead. 98SE has a lot of bugs in it too.  It still freaks from time to time, but my 2000 at work I pound with some heavy memory apps like Unigraphics and database programs.

It's really stable. And when I loaded this version of SE, I had to look around for a couple of the drivers pretty hard.

Danny, I think you and I have a lot more in common than we have differences.  I liked your rotating monitor and I thought it was "brilliant".

[danny_galaga]

hehe. awww, shucks  

[crashwg]

If you have a pirated copy of XP you should deffinitly watch out for SP2.  I have two friends that had to format because SP2 sent there computers into a loop, as in it would boot to windows and then restart about 15 seconds in!

[rchadd]

I have two friends that had to format because SP2 sent there computers into a loop, as in it would boot to windows and then restart about 15 seconds in!

sounds like a virus!