Default is that it checks for updates once a day I believe. I don't think there's been any major updates for the last couple of weeks though, only the usual Defender definition updates.
Default is that it checks for updates once a day I believe. I don't think there's been any major updates for the last couple of weeks though, only the usual Defender definition updates.
Exactly!
Because after that it will be briliant! It is a next gen OS, although it might not look like taht atm. Soon quad processors are gonna be allday stuff, then it will come to hand. It is allways the same with new windows. But i must say that all microsoft stinks bad, and i dont like their policy one bit. LONG LIVE the day when linux becomes teh shit! but it may just be a dream lol. And oh, screw microsoft! lol sry im getting out of mind
Can I smell sarcasm?
I did :ices_rofl to his post at least
Dont laugh too much!
M$ just LOST their appeal in the European High Courts, and one of the rulings is that they MUST make some of their code available to third party applications..ie: LINUX!
The day when we can run 'Windoze' apps properly under a *NIX OS is rapidly approaching!
I dream from that, but I'm afraid that it is not going to happen during my life time
This Vista crap is really not worth buing at least, this laptop BSOD today again when shutting down. One other of 15 machines decided that license is not genuine, damn thing came from factory several months ago and there has not been any changes to it since then, but all of sudden middle of working it decided that now it is time to get license rewoked from MS, so half an hour at phone as all their lines were busy and finally got it working again.
Explorer bugs are getting more and more annoying, well maybe 'improvements', trying to delete folder when you are viewing contenst of one subfolder is not possible, if you have two explorer windows open and other has subfolder of folder open you can't delete, etc etc. Well that is one that causes most gray hairs at the moment.
One bloody annoying feature is WMP, when you insert USB pen drive or some other USB mass storage device WMP starts to index it contents and that slows down file copying to USB device and takes somewhat lot of CPU resources. Oh yes, you can't disable that, it is not possible to select that don't index this device, there is check box index this device, but it is grayed out so I can't de-select it.
Those kind of annoyances which I'm getting daily, which are much better in XP with WMP 9 or maybe even older, I'm not too keen to upgrade to those newer too automatic versions, in my home machine I don't actually use WMP to anything, there are better alternatives, however with Vista there is no hope from else.
Oh yes, also some functions, like opening new window, almost any window, cause system to respond slowly while it slowly draws window to screen, also opening some web pages will cause system not to respond until page has opened enough, this is with IE and FF, I wonder where that load balancing code is hinding then?
It has some good ideas, but so far (have used Vista daily from April) I fail to see it as an improvement even all things would work, all those minor things could been put to XP.
It is as much of improvement as copy protection codes are stopping capable pirates, just more trouble to those that have legal versions, clever pirates just take out such annoying protections...
I'm back on Vista now ready for the DirectX 10 games coming out soon. Nothing new from when I used it before, just a new rig to use it on.
With about 30 mins of tweaking I now have it running at about 30 processes at idle (including nvidia and creative processes), and it's using a little over 500mb of ram with Firefox, Winamp, SmartFTP and Messenger open.
I've got rid of some useless (to me) services that start at bootup such as the Tablet PC services etc (and indexed searching - I very rarely search for files anyway).
Only had one compatibility issue that was installing a program to read ext3 filesystems, but ran it in WinXP mode and all was fine.
With about 30 mins of tweaking I now have it running at about 30 processes at idle (including nvidia and creative processes), and it's using a little over 500mb of ram with Firefox, Winamp, SmartFTP and Messenger open.
I've got rid of some useless (to me) services that start at bootup such as the Tablet PC services etc (and indexed searching - I very rarely search for files anyway).
Only had one compatibility issue that was installing a program to read ext3 filesystems, but ran it in WinXP mode and all was fine.
whats more secure Vista or XP? i was planning to move to vista but for me Vista today sucks
If you are used to secure XP, then I would say it is more secure as you know what to avoid and what to do.
With Vista there is lot of things that you need to do differently and sharing files with XP is nightmare from security point of view.
Just my point of view from all this: I use an OS as long as it's on my comp. I never buy a new OS. When I get a new computer and it gets delivered with a new OS, I'll take it and be happy with it. As long as it runs my games I'm happy.
Vista in Latvian means a hen...
here the OS has a nickname
"The henhouse window"
here the OS has a nickname
"The henhouse window"
Today I had an experience on how windows XP can be good. Yesterday I suddenly lost all admin rights and couldn't install anything. I hoped it would be solved by rebooting, but by doing that I lost my screen and the hard disk stopped working. I thought it was overheating. So I let it cool down, and today I tried again. Today it started up well, until windows came up with a message "Isass.exe can't execute request".
Solution: rebooted with last known working settings, problem solved (I hope..)
Solution: rebooted with last known working settings, problem solved (I hope..)
What does Vista means?
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