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Posted on 07/30/2013 11:15:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thanks, I will look at the TSRs, and I see plenty of them on my system. But yes, I do regular cleanups with various freeware utilities, so that a messy disk is not a problem, but memory could very well be, as you suggest.
Still, going back to my dream PC operating system, I should be able to run multiple sessions, under the same or different logins, on the same single screen, and from the single keyboard, as I have been doing for how many years or decades on a Solaris workstation. Why, I could do that on a VMS workstation 20 years ago. Inability to do this kind of multisession interaction with Windows is the reason why I still use my laptop’s 15.6’’ screen and can’t see a good excuse to upgrade to a larger attached monitor.
Opera, you say? I’ve been using Chrome, and for some things Firefox, but I’ll try Opera. Thanks for the recommendation.
Good ol Adobe, making really crappy software and trusting people will blame Windows. Which is of course why Jobs banned their crap from iPads. Obviously Windows shouldn’t be giving Flash all the resources just because it asks for them, but Adobe shouldn’t make Flash more of an unstable pig every release either.
I don’t want a touch screen. Of course by the same token you really don’t need a touch screen for 8, there’s really no functional difference between a mouse cursor and your finger, except the cursor doesn’t leave Cheetos crumbs on the screen.
I figure there must be some conflict or incompatibility between what Flash is doing and what Windows, and the underlying x86 hardware expects, that cause these crashes, which take as you said a long time to complete, I’ve never timed them, but a minute or longer is standard, I think.
The big problem is that Flash hooks into the browsers, ALL the browsers, and remember what Windows Explorer actually is. So when Flash begins its pre-crash it seizes all the browsers up, which includes Explorer, which kills your ability to do pretty much anything until it unseizes.
The market evolved and fragmented. Microsoft failed keep up.
Even worse on the military network when Outlook gets busy...
Of course, I don't run Windows.
Windows 8 is SO bad no one with software products even bothered to write them for this crap of an OS.
I do bookkeeping work and got a client that put Quickbooks Pro onto a computer with Windows 8. It’s not supported by Intuit and can’t be used remotely. The same with VersaCheck.
Had to get a refund and reload it all to a PC using XP.
What, VMS is still alive? Solaris?
Linux, of course.
May The Force Restart Be With You!
Windows 8 is soon to join Windows ME and Windows Vista as flops. Windows 7 was a good successor to the venerable Windows XP so why did Microsoft have to jump to Windows 8 with all the whiz-bang stuff? Just like Windows Vista Windows 8 has a whole bunch of RAM hogging features that do nothing.
“Maybe it’s just me, but it seems Microsoft has lost their way. It just seems like everything they do is a mess, a flop, or both. I really question Microsoft’s ongoing reason for existing. Seems everyone else is eating their lunch. Also, it seems like Microsoft has a distinct tin ear when it comes to the consumer.”
It’s not just you.
MS should come out with different but compatible OS’s for different people. A very light Linux-type Windows would probably sell very well.
That’s what they’re trying to do with Home, Premium, Enterprise, Ultimate, etc.
“Somebody wake me when MS comes out with a stable version of Windows”
You missed it, it was Win 7.
Will it lose the ugly desktop and revert to Win7 look?
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