Windows XP: Windows XP: The future
Windows XP: The future
by jonflatmo - 10/30/08 10:10 AMWindows XP: The future
When Microsoft stop support Windows XP I have some ideas what they can do:
Make a final Service Pack called: Service Pack 4(SP4)
Service Pack 4:
- Full updated
- Activation removed
- Royale / Royale Noir / Zune themes’s added and all the “ugly” themes like luna removed.
- Startup/logon/logoff/restart sounds removed.
- Remove applications like messenger, paint, moviemaker, internet explorer and more. ( because we don’t use them)
- Windows XP logo changed to Vista logo or update the xp logo.
- Remove Security Center.
- Many people use mouse_fix.reg to remove the mouse “delay” why not fix this to default?
- Remove the windows xp startup screen.
Why?
by MarkFlax
- 10/30/08 1:16 PM
In reply to: Windows XP: The future by jonflatmo
Why would they do all that?
Especially, "Remove Security Center". That would be a great way to generate a few million more zombie computers out there.
Mark
WinDoze Security Center = Come seppuku with me
by yarlq - 11/1/08 1:40 AM In reply to: Why? by MarkFlax
Windows 'security' is joke.
There are only a few dozen or several hundred better safeguards out there.
The worst part is that, once you install a real security firewall, MS's 'Burn, baby, burn' firewall won't stay off - it continually turns itself back on to interfere with far better solutions.
THAT'S why those of us who cherish our computers hate the misnamed 'Windows Security Center' and want it out by the roots before it screws up a better program, thereby letting in a vicious bad guy.
If it weren't for Comodo, Kaspersky -- even zone alarm -- there would already be 'a few million more zombie computers out there'.
Windows: 30 years old and still going wrong.
Strange, I never had a problem.
by MarkFlax - 11/1/08 4:20 AM
In reply to: WinDoze Security Center = Come seppuku with me by yarlq
It's true that I switched from XP's own firewall to my own 3rd party choice, but I never had the problem you state you have experienced. XP's firewall has never turned itself back on.
I chose my own, (ZoneAlarm), because I was used to it and had used it on my previous Windows system, but in fact, those people who decided to look deeper into the Windows Firewall, and learn how to configure it for their own needs, have found it an effective and useful tool against hackers attempting to intrude into the OS.
But then, some people just want a system that they don't have to 'do anything' to help protect it, and just press buttons and keys. They are the ones most likely to come unstuck.
Windows, 30 years and still going wrong? I'm not sure about the 30 years, (Bill Gates started off in the late 70's or early 80's with a DOS version. Windows came much later), but I doubt you can say it is going wrong. It is in every country in the world, has sold countless millions of Operating Systems, and has enabled many many millions of ordinary people like you and me to talk to each other over the internet.
That pretty much sounds like a success story to me.
Mark
reply to: Strange, I never had a problem.
by caktus - 11/2/08 5:52 PM In reply to: Strange, I never had a problem. by MarkFlax
The only time I find the Windows Firewall has been turned on is following a complete reinstall of the OS. I too prefer ZA, but at least XP (for all the bad PR Windows gets) gives us the tools to get started.
It's easy to ...
by Kees Bakker - 10/30/08 1:24 PM
In reply to: Windows XP: The future by jonflatmo
- silence the sounds you mention (via Control Panel)
- suppress the startup screen (via boot.ini) or replace it by one you like more
- remove themes you don't use (if you need the disk space)
- remove applications like paint (just delete the .exe)
No need for these things in a service pack.
Kees
sp4
by jonflatmo - 10/30/08 3:23 PM In reply to: It's easy to ... by Kees Bakker
to do this as a default, so i dont need to do this manualty...
and one more thing:
make windows xp look more like vista so the thoes who love xp not need to upgrade to vista!
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A service pack will never ...
by Kees Bakker - 10/30/08 3:43 PM
In reply to: sp4 by jonflatmo
change settings or delete programs. You wouldn't really like that, would you? Everybody has his own preferences and installing patches respect those.
Kees
Becoming?
by Jimmy Greystone - 10/31/08 10:23 AM In reply to: RE: so i dont need to do this manualty... by caktusBecoming? Try already is. At least for highly developed nations.
"HEHE"
by jonflatmo - 10/31/08 3:23 PM In reply to: Becoming? by Jimmy Greystonefunny
SP4
by jbaviera - 10/31/08 9:24 PM In reply to: Windows XP: The future by jonflatmoMake SP4 w/full updates --- Yes
Activation removed --- I'd like to see that happen NOW!
Themes --- Doesn't matter
I can agree with removing IE and messenger, but not so much the others.
I'd like to see the File Manager from Win3.1 brought back to life! (I can't stand to see "Windows Explorer" looking like Idiot Exploiter).
about deleting IE.
by mickzdaman - 11/1/08 5:43 AM In reply to: SP4 by jbavierai dissagree with your comment to delete IE, I find it suits my need perfectly, and im sure it does for many others around the world. I hear on the grapevine that because of a great many rewrites, IE may be comming back in a big way. Its only on the grapevine but thats what i hear. I welcome any comments on this as the subject interests me.
I doubt it
by Jimmy Greystone - 11/1/08 8:14 AM In reply to: about deleting IE. by mickzdamanI doubt it. IE8 is in early beta stages, but the rather slow development cycle is going to see browsers like Firefox running circles around it. At the rate things are going, Firefox will have had 2 releases in the time that IE8 has been in development, and Firefox will already have all the worthwhile features of IE8 but without all the security risks associated with it.
Microsoft lost their chance when they left IE6 to rot after suffocating Netscape. IE7 was far too little far too late, and IE8 will be the same.
Though on a positive note, Microsoft does seem to be making a real effort to fix the horribly horribly broken rendering engine in IE starting with IE7. Bringing it more in lines with international standards instead of trying to segment the web up into sites that work with IE and sites that don't. For that they should be commended, and simultaneously admonished for attempting to fragment the market like that in the first place.
Anyway, long story short... IE has already lost the "new browser war", it's just going to take a while for it's empire to fully implode. One could reasonably argue that the Roman Empire reached its peak under Agustus, but it would take several hundred years for the empire to fully collapse leading to the dark ages in Europe. IE is no different. It has already lost, and we're in the early stages of its slow, but inevitable, demise.
ie
by mickzdaman - 11/1/08 1:05 PM In reply to: I doubt it by Jimmy Greystonei agree firefox are ahead at the moment, but i believe that IE microsoft are just taking their time to perfect IE 8, because of the landslide flop of 6.
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