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<blockquote data-quote="Alexis" data-source="post: 265673" data-attributes="member: 16911"><p>Windows is horrendous. I've just built my dad a PC but we only have an original Win XP CD from 2001. I still haven't managed to install it properly yet.</p><p></p><p>As soon as you install, Windows Messenging attacks you, so that has to be turned off. The settings for this are hidden well away. Next, I go onto Google and search for MSN Updates. This takes a lot of faffing and downloading of new installers. Then I try to get AVG Antivirus and install it. It immediately flags up all sorts of trojans and where they've come from I've no idea because I've only been on Google and Microsoft.</p><p></p><p>Then I try to get Service Pack 2. Online it won't let me as it says I have a dodgy copy of Windows, which isn't true. So I try using automatic updates. 250megs later and after half an hour of installation, it gets stuck at the end and I have to restart. This causes it to have to roll back to the original version, which takes another half an hour. Eventually I get going and my internet connection stops after 5 mins and I get inundated by worms and trojans. AVG goes crazy and says it can't get rid of some of them. I download a fix for a particular virus which I have to run in safe mode, which turns out to have no effect.</p><p></p><p>So I reinstall Windows from scratch.</p><p></p><p>Then I go through the same rigmarole and after Service Pack 2 finally installs, I restart and get an error 'NTLDR not found. Press ctrl-alt-delete'. So now I can't even start the machine and have to start all over AGAIN.</p><p>Pathetic.</p><p></p><p>Windows is fine if you've patched up when you're supposed to over the last couple of years. My main machine is perfect. Try and do it from scratch with no service packs and it's a complete nightmare because it's so badly written. I don't care when people say 'Macs are no better than PCs. People just don't bother writing viruses for them.' Surely an egomaniac virus writer in the far east or whatever would love to have the recognition of being the first to get a damaging Mac virus out there. OS X is a far better written OS. If WinXP was so secure, they wouldn't be bleating on about how scure vista is in comparison. It also makes me laugh when I see TV ads on about how secure MS are making their software as if they're taking the credit for trying to fix the piece of crap they brought out in the first place.</p><p></p><p>Rant over!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alexis, post: 265673, member: 16911"] Windows is horrendous. I've just built my dad a PC but we only have an original Win XP CD from 2001. I still haven't managed to install it properly yet. As soon as you install, Windows Messenging attacks you, so that has to be turned off. The settings for this are hidden well away. Next, I go onto Google and search for MSN Updates. This takes a lot of faffing and downloading of new installers. Then I try to get AVG Antivirus and install it. It immediately flags up all sorts of trojans and where they've come from I've no idea because I've only been on Google and Microsoft. Then I try to get Service Pack 2. Online it won't let me as it says I have a dodgy copy of Windows, which isn't true. So I try using automatic updates. 250megs later and after half an hour of installation, it gets stuck at the end and I have to restart. This causes it to have to roll back to the original version, which takes another half an hour. Eventually I get going and my internet connection stops after 5 mins and I get inundated by worms and trojans. AVG goes crazy and says it can't get rid of some of them. I download a fix for a particular virus which I have to run in safe mode, which turns out to have no effect. So I reinstall Windows from scratch. Then I go through the same rigmarole and after Service Pack 2 finally installs, I restart and get an error 'NTLDR not found. Press ctrl-alt-delete'. So now I can't even start the machine and have to start all over AGAIN. Pathetic. Windows is fine if you've patched up when you're supposed to over the last couple of years. My main machine is perfect. Try and do it from scratch with no service packs and it's a complete nightmare because it's so badly written. I don't care when people say 'Macs are no better than PCs. People just don't bother writing viruses for them.' Surely an egomaniac virus writer in the far east or whatever would love to have the recognition of being the first to get a damaging Mac virus out there. OS X is a far better written OS. If WinXP was so secure, they wouldn't be bleating on about how scure vista is in comparison. It also makes me laugh when I see TV ads on about how secure MS are making their software as if they're taking the credit for trying to fix the piece of crap they brought out in the first place. Rant over! [/QUOTE]
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