PING: John Corliss

[The Seabat]

Hey John, I know that you just switched over to WinXP and I'm thinking
of doing the same thing, only because of the 4gb file limit on the
FAT32 systems (I've started messin' with DVDs, woe is me!). Can you
give me some tips on where you got your info on taming the WinXP
beast? I've been searching for a couple of days now and I'm just
picking up little bits and pieces. This could take a while to
accumulate enough info to make the leap to XP.

I think you detest XP as much as I do, and I figure that whatever you
did to keep that puppy in it's cage would be good enough for me.

Thanks.

 

[Steven Burn]

Hey John, I know that you just switched over to WinXP and I'm thinking
of doing the same thing, only because of the 4gb file limit on the
FAT32 systems (I've started messin' with DVDs, woe is me!). Can you
give me some tips on where you got your info on taming the WinXP
beast? I've been searching for a couple of days now and I'm just
picking up little bits and pieces. This could take a while to
accumulate enough info to make the leap to XP.

I think you detest XP as much as I do, and I figure that whatever you
did to keep that puppy in it's cage would be good enough for me.

Thanks.

Not a big fan of XP myself but have had it for quite some time now. The only
major problem (a ton of minor one's, but nothing to shout about) I've had
with it is that it's extremely temperamental when it comes to updates, and
larger programs (i.e. stuff that requires alot of resources) as it tends to
BSOD (or atleast, XP's version of a BSOD). Actually thought it'd be fun a
few months ago to see what I could get it to run on (as in, run properly),
and got it running on an old P120 w/96MB RAM <g> (that was fun!).

The most recent problem I've had was last week - damn thing had an argument
with my firewall - and won. Still not sure why though.

Aslong as you ensure you disable any unnecessary services (Messenger,
indexing service etc), and DO NOT allow it to update itself (it's a PITA),
and most importantly, disable System Restore (useless piece of crap IMHO -
gimme an image any day), you should be alright ;o)

Oh and, don't believe the rubbish about not running as an admin either -
been doing that since I got it and have never had any problems with
malware/viruses etc (though thats prolly cause I am careful which sites I go
to, which e-mails I open, and which programs get loaded). The PC is only as
secure as the person administering it - not which settings it's got or which
mode it's in.

--
Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[MyName]

Hey John, I know that you just switched over to WinXP and
I'm thinking of doing the same thing, only because of the
4gb file limit on the FAT32 systems (I've started messin'
with DVDs, woe is me!). Can you give me some tips on where
you got your info on taming the WinXP beast? I've been
searching for a couple of days now and I'm just picking up
little bits and pieces. This could take a while to
accumulate enough info to make the leap to XP.

I think you detest XP as much as I do, and I figure that
whatever you did to keep that puppy in it's cage would be
good enough for me.

Thanks

Having had to make the leap myself, I posted a document for you
in a.b.freeware. It is from the Black Viper site, which last I
knew is now gone. Strangely enough he & I just happpen to have
the same mobo, gaphics card too? ... I can't recall.

 

[Matt]

Hey John, I know that you just switched over to WinXP and I'm
thinking of doing the same thing, only because of the 4gb file
limit on the FAT32 systems (I've started messin' with DVDs,
woe is me!). Can you give me some tips on where you got your
info on taming the WinXP beast? I've been searching for a
couple of days now and I'm just picking up little bits and
pieces. This could take a while to accumulate enough info to
make the leap to XP.

http://www.tweakxp.com/
http://www.dougknox.com/
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/
http://www.theeldergeek.com/
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp.htm
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windowsxp_tips.htm
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_tips_ms.asp
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/all-tips.html

There's even MANY news groups that discuss XP.

 

[John Corliss]

Hey John, I know that you just switched over to WinXP and I'm thinking
of doing the same thing, only because of the 4gb file limit on the
FAT32 systems (I've started messin' with DVDs, woe is me!). Can you
give me some tips on where you got your info on taming the WinXP
beast? I've been searching for a couple of days now and I'm just
picking up little bits and pieces. This could take a while to
accumulate enough info to make the leap to XP.

I think you detest XP as much as I do, and I figure that whatever you
did to keep that puppy in it's cage would be good enough for me.

Thanks.

I'll make this short because it's so totally off topic here:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/index.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=13#SSDP
http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12

Those sites were a big help. And don't forget to install and use
Microsoft's own TweakUI, which is freeware:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

 

[The Seabat]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:27:37 -0800, John Corliss


<<snip>>

Yeah, you're right, John. My bad, forgot to put OT in the header.
Thanks for the info though.

 

[The Seabat]

Thanks for the info. Sorry about being OT.

 

[Andy Mabbett]

I'll make this short because it's so totally off topic here:

No [...] commercial software,

Good to see you're maintaining your usual standards.

Your sig's still broken, too.

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BBQ=AB?=]

Your sig's still broken, too.

What do you think is wrong with his sig?

 

[John Corliss]

Andy Mabbett trolled:

What do you think is wrong with his sig?

For some mysterious reason, Andy thinks that it bothers me deeply when
he says this.

Frankly though, a good signature file has a delimiter at the top (two
dashes followed by a blank space) and is no longer than four lines. If
my sig is wrapped to a 72 character length line, it totals to 5 lines.

I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. 80)>

--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc, for instance. No
adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware,
PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware,
viruses or warez for me, please.

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BBQ=AB?=]

For some mysterious reason, Andy thinks that it bothers me deeply
when he says this.

Frankly though, a good signature file has a delimiter at the top
(two dashes followed by a blank space) and is no longer than four
lines. If my sig is wrapped to a 72 character length line, it
totals to 5 lines.

Your sigs do have valid delimiters, and the post to which he replied
had a different version of your sig which had only four lines, none
longer than 66 chars.

I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. 80)>

I don't think anybody is.

 

[Sietse Fliege]

Your sigs do have valid delimiters, and the post to which he replied
had a different version of your sig which had only four lines, none
longer than 66 chars.


I don't think anybody is.

The only thing that is broken is Andy's grammophone record.
It is the only one that he's got and he's been playing it ad nauseam
over a long period.
As he hadn't been playing it for quite some time now, I thought he had
thrown it away or his record player now was also broken, but he's back!
Now the big question is: will I be able to catch any sleep tonight?

 

[Andy Mabbett]

›Q‹ wrote:

His headers are broken

You're still a liar, Corliss,

For some mysterious reason, Andy thinks that it bothers me deeply when
he says this.

Your attempts at mind-reading are failing, again.

Frankly though, a good signature file has a delimiter at the top (two
dashes followed by a blank space) and is no longer than four lines. If
my sig is wrapped to a 72 character length line, it totals to 5 lines.

Perhaps, but that's not all that's broken about it.

I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc, for instance.

Not directly, perhaps, but you still can't resist doing it through third
parties, can you?

No [...] commercial software

Do you really not think that Windows XP is commercial software?

Hypocrite.