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do you like installing software?

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lyssword

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I dunno, it's kind of weird, but I feel a sense of achievment/accomplishment when I'm installing all kinds of software, games, updates, programming IDE's. Ther's just something about the progress bar that makes me feel like not a complete loser :laugh:

fess' up 😛
 
I hate it. Often the software I install has license servers, flex keys and other annoyances. submitting ethernet macs to get authorizations codes, bites.
 
Installing software is the same kind of fun as defragging your hd, with the added benefit of intermittent user interaction :^/
 
I do now, it's so easy to just drag and drop knowing you're not ripping any system files apart.
 
May I suggest you get Office 95 on Floppy and find an old socket 7 box with 16MB ram and get installing. Windows 95 on floppy too. 😉

If you're installing (win95) from DOS make sure your autoexec.bat does not load smartdriv so it takes even longer to copy. :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Rubycon
May I suggest you get Office 95 on Floppy and find an old socket 7 box with 16MB ram and get installing. Windows 95 on floppy too. 😉

If you're installing (win95) from DOS make sure your autoexec.bat does not load smartdriv so it takes even longer to copy. :laugh:
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MS Office 95 was somewhere around 30 disks, IIRC. Real bummer when there was a read error.
 
Originally posted by: Rubycon
May I suggest you get Office 95 on Floppy and find an old socket 7 box with 16MB ram and get installing. Windows 95 on floppy too. 😉

If you're installing (win95) from DOS make sure your autoexec.bat does not load smartdriv so it takes even longer to copy. :laugh:
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DEAR GOD, MAKE THE MEMORIES GO AWAY!!!!





 
i used to be like that, i'd reload the OS every few months at the longest... nowdays, its the opposite, i try NOT to have to install stuff, i even have an image that has the OS plus all the basic software i use included to save time...

i did get a kick out of installing Vista for the first time though, im back to XP pro at the moment though, i'll give vista some time to mature, at least to SP2
 
Originally posted by: Howard
Smartdrv was awesome.
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Yes it was definitely flexible particularly if you were using Win 3.1. 🙂

ncache (Norton Util) as well as PC Kwik had better algorithms for fast loading of programs and retention however they would rob Windows of performance if their buffers were set to huge size as Windows would resort to the swap file immediately with nearly no physical memory available. (circa 1992 - 486DX50, 4-8MB ram for mid to high end PC)
 
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