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Post by chicobrownbear on Jun 12, 2009 4:18:41 GMT -5
So I will admit that at some point in time I defended Windows Vista on this very site. That all changed within the past year when, though through regular maintenance of my machine, Vista is now running about as well as Opossums do on secondary roadways when cars have them in headlights. I have tried everything. Vista worked fine, and then Vista decided to become a government employee (I can make fun of Gov employees, cause I R 1) To add insult to injury, this week Internet Explorer just decided to go on strike with Vista. I don't consider myself a novice when it comes to computers. I'm no pro, but I can hold my own. I really couldn't pin down the problem. Long story longer, I downloaded Mozilla Firefox 3.x (can't remember the version number) Holy crap. It is AWESOME. Its like the website comes up before I touch the touchpad the second time. I understand there are a ton of add ons as well. I will be exploring those tonight. Do yourself a favor. DOWNLOAD FIREFOX. And, in my disdain of Microsoft products at this point, I will take this time to plug www.openoffice.org. It is fully compatible with Microsoft office products, the only real difference is that you don't have to pay for Open Office. If I could figure out how to run UBUNTU on this machine Vista would be toast. I wanted to delete Internet Explorer but Microsoft has it set up to where you can't uninstall IExplorer without affecting Vista. Carry on.
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Post by kevin1 on Jun 12, 2009 5:12:12 GMT -5
My wife is a diehard gamer, and she's come to hate Vista too. Our kids bought her a Toshiba laptop for her last birthday that came with Vista installed, and for some unexplained reason it hates her video games. She'll be playing one for awhile, then suddenly you'll hear her bark out a phrase that could be considered somewhat less than ladylike as the system closes her game. She has the XP discs from her desktop, and fully plans to fire Vista as soon as possible. Congratulations Microsoft, yet another winner...
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Post by chicobrownbear on Jun 12, 2009 5:17:37 GMT -5
I'm literally done kevin1. Stick a fork in me, goodnight irene, I'm done. Microsoft has screwed the pooch with Vista, and now 7 as I understand it. My next desktop will be a "hackintosh." Partitioned XP/OSX
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Post by huxbux on Jun 12, 2009 22:37:08 GMT -5
I'm literally done kevin1. Stick a fork in me, goodnight irene, I'm done. Microsoft has screwed the pooch with Vista, and now 7 as I understand it. My next desktop will be a "hackintosh." Partitioned XP/OSX You'll throw rocks at Microsoft ever after.
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