Gentlemen. Please. Am just an oldster browsing thru here looking for some
answers from the experts. From some of what I've seen, though, I'm now to
afraid to ask some types of questions, lest it reveal how dumb I really
am,
which is precisely the reason for my own and many other visitors coming
here.
If we knew all the answers, there'd be no need to come and trouble people
here.
Though I admit, many of us attempt to express our frustrations here out
loud
sometimes, as if the experts had anything to do with the dilemma. Fact is
and
in truth, I'm as grateful as the rest, honestly, for this opportunity to
seek out some help here . We'd be totally lost without all you gents and
ladies sacrificing your time on our behalf here.
Probably Mr. Hester is just frustrated, like I used to be. Most of the
time
we just don't see the answer, which is why we look here. From what I
found,
no software product is perfect. It would probably take 10,000 programmers
10
years to come out with something pleasing everyone. That's to long and to
costly. So, in meantime, we have to work with what we have.
If the thing is slow, there's probably a good reason for it. It may be
normal, or may be a bug, low memory or to many startups and services in
memory, or what have you. It could maybe be narrowed down if one stuck to
the
facts.
In so far as one of Mr. Plato's replies is concerned (50 other browsers),
that may be so. In fact, I did at one time try out Firefox and it seemed a
bit faster and less
prone to infection, since hackers (of the malicious or maybe just angry
types) mostly concentrate on Explorer.
However, there's at least one major drawback with other browsers, really,
and that is, it's doubtful that any browser out there is allowed to access
Microsoft Update, for one. If there is one, it'd be nice to know, because
it
would solve the catch 22 problem.
The problem arises when Explorer gets corrupted or infected (or it seems
that way)
and you can't get access to certain sites like Microsoft Update, etc., to
either look for
help on the matter or get Explorer updated (or repaired maybe) on line,
and,
for one reason or another, you don't have the original software any more
either. In some cases, also, Explorer is totally locked out and there's
complete panic. I had this problem for both Win 98 and Win XP - 'though
both
OS's were online validated by MS as genuine.
This can be a really maddening and frustrating situation. It could most
likely be quickly solved - if one had another browser with full accesss
capability. But if that browser can't access, then that's catch 22 for
you.
Way back when, in the distant past, if I remember correctly, MS did say,
somewhere along the line, that Windows was a universal platform and that
it
did not interfere with other aps made to run on it. Yet if you go look at
the Firefox website (I've given up some time back) I think you'll still
find
the battle raging over the lack of access to MS updates.
So, in that sense, anyway, I can commiserate with Mr. Hester and his
problems. One should have a choice in the matter, at least when certain
problems (like catch 22, above), arise. One could then more easily
determine
where the problem lay and take appropriate action to correct it.
No offense meant. Just looking for some answers.
(Well, I see a link down there which am going to check out just to see
what's going on)
Thank you.
