Help me, I'm sick! I format twice a day!

WelshBloke · Feb 20, 2012

MotionMan said:
I use to do crazy stuff like this, too. What cured me were 2 things:

1. I just got tired/lazy;
2. I went all Mac.

MotionMan

So you're saying that Mac users are people too insane to use Windows?

MotionMan · Feb 20, 2012

WelshBloke said:
So you're saying that Mac users are people too insane to use Windows?

Some of us.

Then again, I am pretty insane about keeping my iPhone apps up to date, so, even Apple cannot cure OCD.

MotionMan

theevilsharpie · Feb 20, 2012

Posting in a troll thread.

WelshBloke · Feb 20, 2012

MotionMan said:
Some of us.

Then again, I am pretty insane about keeping my iPhone apps up to date, so, even Apple cannot cure OCD.

MotionMan

You could go for an Linux distro, I think OCD is considered an advantage there. :awe:

HardcoreRobot · Feb 20, 2012

is your time really that un-valuable? maybe you wouldnt have been fired from work for showing up late without all the time wasted tinkering?

arcenite · Feb 20, 2012

HardcoreRobot said:
is your time really that un-valuable? maybe you wouldnt have been fired from work for showing up late without all the time wasted tinkering?

ow

Vic Vega · Feb 20, 2012

Berryracer · Feb 20, 2012

Printer Bandit said:
here's the cure:

buy a Mac.

I wouldn't touch any Apple product even if you paid me! :whiste:

no iToys for meh

iTunes = The wors mp3 / media program on the face of earth! I had to read through endless pages just to be able to help my mom copy a few mp3s to her iPod! go figure!

Apples = for n00bs who don't know how to use a REAL computer and handle problems

WelshBloke · Feb 20, 2012

Matrix Leader said:
...
iTunes = The wors mp3 / media program on the face of earth! I had to read through endless pages just to be able to help my mom copy a few mp3s to her iPod! go figure!

Apples = for n00bs who don't know how to use a REAL computer and handle problems

Now I'm not the biggest fan of Apple but you're calling them noobs but you cant work iTunes? :colbert:

Shawn · Feb 20, 2012

Serious OCD right there. I just formatted for the first time in 3 years and only because I bought an SSD and was having issues getting the image to work properly on my new drive. Reinstalling windows is a serious PITA when you've got a ton of programs you use regularly and hundreds of settings that will have to be redone.

Saint Nick · Feb 20, 2012

Matrix Leader said:
I wouldn't touch any Apple product even if you paid me! :whiste:

no iToys for meh

iTunes = The wors mp3 / media program on the face of earth! I had to read through endless pages just to be able to help my mom copy a few mp3s to her iPod! go figure!

Apples = for n00bs who don't know how to use a REAL computer and handle problems

Lmao, now you're just trolling. Go away.

DominionSeraph · Feb 20, 2012

Vic Vega said:
I used to be like this during the XP days, but I haven't had an XP machine since mid 2006. I haven't missed XP.

I grabbed the July 2006 Vista beta off MSDN the moment it was available and loaded it. It worked flawlessly for me and I used it for six months until the Vista RTM was available on MSDN and I grabbed that. I ran the same Vista 64 install until the Windows 7 RTM was available on MSDN in mid-late 2009.

>Vista
>flawless

Your XP installs must've been absolute shit if you didn't notice the Vista downgrade. 10 minutes to open a zip file? Hours to move a folder of only a few hundred megs?
IIRC, my Vista booted in ~60-70 seconds when first installed/tweaked. After many months with Windows Update laying on the updates that was up to 1:40. This was the best I could do, and this was with it running on a 150GB Raptor. I kept chugging along with Vista, hoping that SP1 would solve all the performance problems. It didn't -- it only made Vista "decent." I wasn't satisfied with "decent", so now that it was obvious that Microsoft couldn't get Vista dialed in I decided to throw in my original WD800JD with XP on it. The WD800JD is quite a bit slower than a Raptor, but after a few tweaks I had XP humming:

A 15 second boot was a rather noticeable difference over Vista. And XP was just soooo much more responsive.
XP is fast as fuck and all of my games just work. Vista is hopelessly slow and, you're right, a reinstall won't help it. Maybe I'm just being silly but I don't consider that an upgrade.

Red Squirrel · Feb 20, 2012

fatpat268 said:
Don't even waste your time looking for new versions of your software constantly. Chances are, you're not going to be using all of the software you update on a constant basis anyway, and if your software is already working, why update?

I'm not saying to never update, but if it's not broken, why fix it?

That's actually the way I feel. I HATE programs that keep bumming me to update. If I actually updated every time a program asked to I'd be spending the first couple hours of my day updating my machine. Unless it's a one of a kind security update for a huge flaw that was just found, I don't see the point of always being at the latest version. In fact I rather be a few small versions behind that way if there's issues I know not to update.

The only time I really update my software is if I run into an issue, or if I'm reinstalling it for any reason. Things like my browser I do update a bit more often as there are more security reasons to do so, but things that are local, why bother? If it works, it works.

xSauronx · Feb 20, 2012

BillGates said:
(I hope not!)

maybe not the OP, but this guy i used to work with...as soon as he did a fresh install of windows and installed his software he'd start doing full system scans with MBAM and whatever he felt like using for AV, then he'd run ccleaner and hijackthis to make sure nothing had fouled his precious new install

then hed install desktop wallpaper and just look at it, like he was taking a break from all the aforementioned gruelling work.

that fucker was crazy.

xSauronx · Feb 20, 2012

WelshBloke said:
Now I'm not the biggest fan of Apple but you're calling them noobs but you cant work iTunes?

seriously, i dont love itunes...but its not because its complicated or anything. jesus

eldorado99 · Feb 20, 2012

Switch to Linux, no more registry to worry about...

Shawn · Feb 21, 2012

DominionSeraph said:
>Vista
>flawless

Your XP installs must've been absolute shit if you didn't notice the Vista downgrade. 10 minutes to open a zip file? Hours to move a folder of only a few hundred megs?
IIRC, my Vista booted in ~60-70 seconds when first installed/tweaked. After many months with Windows Update laying on the updates that was up to 1:40. This was the best I could do, and this was with it running on a 150GB Raptor. I kept chugging along with Vista, hoping that SP1 would solve all the performance problems. It didn't -- it only made Vista "decent." I wasn't satisfied with "decent", so now that it was obvious that Microsoft couldn't get Vista dialed in I decided to throw in my original WD800JD with XP on it. The WD800JD is quite a bit slower than a Raptor, but after a few tweaks I had XP humming:

A 15 second boot was a rather noticeable difference over Vista. And XP was just soooo much more responsive.
XP is fast as fuck and all of my games just work. Vista is hopelessly slow and, you're right, a reinstall won't help it. Maybe I'm just being silly but I don't consider than an upgrade.

Sorry, but I had the same experience as Vic. No issues with Vista whatsoever, even with the beta (unless you count the lack of printer drivers from HP).

I switched over and never looked back. Never had any issues with copying files and I used WinRAR to unzip files so no issues with that either. I used my computer as a DVR and Media Center was worlds better than WinTV's recording software. That alone kept me from going back to XP.

Haven't had a computer with XP since 06 as well.

SparkyJJO · Feb 21, 2012

So you install CCleaner but you don't want to touch your registry.

lxskllr · Feb 21, 2012

Shawn said:
Sorry, but I had the same experience as Vic. No issues with Vista whatsoever, even with the beta (unless you count the lack of printer drivers from HP).

I switched over and never looked back. Never had any issues with copying files and I used WinRAR to unzip files so no issues with that either. I used my computer as a DVR and Media Center was worlds better than WinTV's recording software. That alone kept me from going back to XP.

Haven't had a computer with XP since 06 as well.

Vista's still my favorite Windows. I have it installed, but haven't used it in over a year. I've pretty much switched to GNU/Linux completely. I will likely use it when Bioshock3 is released though.

SparkyJJO · Feb 21, 2012

lxskllr said:
Vista's still my favorite Windows. I have it installed, but haven't used it in over a year. I've pretty much switched to GNU/Linux completely. I will likely use it when Bioshock3 is released though.

Vista wasn't bad. I prefer it over XP and I haven't used XP on any of my computers for at least 2 years now (when I got rid of my old laptop that couldn't run anything newer).

However, I use 7 exclusively now. 7 took the best of Vista and added some really nice features, tuned up other things, etc. Even some of the little things I find myself missing when I'm on a Vista machine. I recently upgraded my trusty IBM T60 from Vista to 7 (it originally came with XP).

lxskllr · Feb 21, 2012

SparkyJJO said:
Vista wasn't bad. I prefer it over XP and I haven't used XP on any of my computers for at least 2 years now (when I got rid of my old laptop that couldn't run anything newer).

However, I use 7 exclusively now. 7 took the best of Vista and added some really nice features, tuned up other things, etc. Even some of the little things I find myself missing when I'm on a Vista machine. I recently upgraded my trusty IBM T60 from Vista to 7 (it originally came with XP).

7's alright. If I bought a computer with 7, I wouldn't actively downgrade it, but I still prefer Vista. It mostly comes down to the UI. I prefer the Aero glass on Vista, and I like having an actual sidebar. I don't care for Win7s dock-like taskbar. One of the first things I did on my brief run of 7 was make the taskbar as close to classic as I could.

I'm hoping I can score a free copy of Win8 somehow. Not because I really want it, but for future compatibility for the occasional game. There'll come a time when Vista/Win7 won't work, and I'd rather not pay for an O/S I'll use to play 1 game per year. I like everything about GNU/Linux over Windows except the occasional AAA game; in this case Bioshock :^/

Berryracer · Feb 21, 2012

SparkyJJO said:
So you install CCleaner but you don't want to touch your registry.

I don't even instgall CCleaner. I just use the portable version because I manually add a few folders which CCleaner always misses like:

c:\Windows\Software Distribution\Download (this folder contains the temp Windows Update files and after you've installed the updates, it doesn't get cleared out even by CCleaner, so I add that path manually, you have to select include files and subfolders )

Here is a small n00b!e guide I created

DominionSeraph · Feb 21, 2012

lxskllr said:
Vista's still my favorite Windows.

You are the .00001%

Modelworks · Feb 21, 2012

eldorado99 said:
Switch to Linux, no more registry to worry about...

And he will fight right in . Linux users re-install more than any users I ever met.

lxskllr · Feb 21, 2012

Modelworks said:
And he will fight right in . Linux users re-install more than any users I ever met.

Hey now, I've had this same install since 2008. In place upgrade, and kept on going. I might be reinstalling this April, but that remains to be seen.

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