The worst parts of Windows 7

[bsobel]

iam really having trouble with the uac earlier
i always used to think that it was the firewall and turned it off and got infected by some virus

That pretty much sums up why you need to use the defaults, you cant be trusted with an open system.

 

[polarbear6]

Originally posted by: bsobel

iam really having trouble with the uac earlier
i always used to think that it was the firewall and turned it off and got infected by some virus

That pretty much sums up why you need to use the defaults, you cant be trusted with an open system.

the bloody os tricked me of some sort
some where in the corner of my heart i have a feeling that it was the microsoft's plan all over

they attack there customer's pc so that they would buy there new oses for the sake of the security and sh*t

vista - uac - security = dream come true + gta 4 = even better + a large size of pizza and coke = ahh life's beautiful + good grades = happy Samaritan
)

 

[plonk420]

OS tricked you? or you fell for social engineering? but we're getting derailed and OT. GTA4 is whole other can of worms... but again, that's for a different thread. unless you experienced this with Windows 7...

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: ganesh1

Originally posted by: bsobel

iam really having trouble with the uac earlier
i always used to think that it was the firewall and turned it off and got infected by some virus

That pretty much sums up why you need to use the defaults, you cant be trusted with an open system.

the bloody os tricked me of some sort
some where in the corner of my heart i have a feeling that it was the microsoft's plan all over

they attack there customer's pc so that they would buy there new oses for the sake of the security and sh*t

vista - uac - security = dream come true + gta 4 = even better + a large size of pizza and coke = ahh life's beautiful + good grades = happy Samaritan
)

Troll troll troll your boat...

 

[bsobel]

Troll troll troll your boat...

Yep, him and VL can have a virtual love fest with their MS conspiracy theories :roll:

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, I was using IE8 beta tonight, at NewEgg. I had a bunch of things in my cart. I checked two items, removed them, and then I went to punch in my zip code for shipping info.

Magically, my cart became empty.

So don't use IE8 for ordering on newegg, it doesn't work right.

 

[plonk420]

can you duplicate the issue?

edit: added enough parts for a computer. changed them to Qty 2, removed some. changed setup to an AMD setup. calculated shipping. logged in. calculated shipping again. logged out. added another part. calculated shipping again. no issues.

all with 10 other tabs open (including netvibes, which is a browser killer for me. need to add gmail to this for the ultimate torture test).

WMP *does* seem a bit flakey. died after 6 hours of playback. died on a DivX/XviD file (Top Gear S12 ep, non-scene). can't tell if it's using an internal decoder or FFDShow. doesn't *appear* to be using ffdshow, but it could just be activing flaky.

thankfully i don't use WMP, tho.

edit2: it looks like i can't force WMP to use FFDShow as decoder for MPEG-2 or DivX (i'm not about to go about hacking those Class ID strings to try to figure it out, either). ah well. you got me on WMP being junk.

 

[polarbear6]

hey i have another grievance
flash player the FLASH PLAYER i really was unable to install it in ie8 (in vista some 2 ~ 3 months ago)(in my pa's lappy)
AND THE MODERN VIDEO ACCELERATORS also dont have work wid it
(even wid mozilla firefox 3) it doesnt create much difference to many users, but sad suckers like me wid no broadband can really run into problems

ms conspiracy no.2
we will create oses which will not use any hardware which was manufactured before 2008 > muahahahah
then we will charge all the hardware manufactures some money for the profits they made for selling modern parts which are compatible wid our ocs
this process we will do every two years ......
ms conspiracy no.3
and every year we will release a service pack which again will create hardware compatibilty issues and will eventually result in data loss
and then we will claim that our old oc are insecure and use this as marketing slogan


DAMN IAM SO CREATIVE and all this are my experiences
just as soon as some one comes up wid a linux version of gta 4
i will be saying byee to vista )

 

[plonk420]

wtf.
English, please.
i don't know anyone using Vista with Flash problems. i've used Vista with a 5200 with no video issues. please include examples, otherwise your post is as useless as someone talking to a mechanic and saying "my car has issues in the morning. i just don't get it."
also, this isn't a Vista thread.

 

[polarbear6]

Originally posted by: plonk420
wtf.
English, please.
i don't know anyone using Vista with Flash problems. i've used Vista with a 5200 with no video issues. please include examples, otherwise your post is as useless as someone talking to a mechanic and saying "my car has issues in the morning. i just don't get it."
also, this isn't a Vista thread.

english.... iam so sorry i forgot that i was speakin cantonese all the time

i said i installed ie8 in vista .. when it was released
and i was tryin to installing flash into it

and iam not whining about vista iam just talking about the whole entire ms policy in past and how i suffered because of em

i had to ditch my 40$ worth tv tuner and anoder 40$ worth sound card which is almost equal to my os cost )

 

[plonk420]

ganesh, i've split a topic so you can describe your Vista issues/symptoms here or link to a previous post

meanwhile, i've been playing video not decoded by WMP-forced codecs with no issues for the last 4 hours with no issues. will report in 6-20 hours....

edit: oh dear, spoke too soon. it crashed on something being decoded by FFDShow just after i'd posted.

we're in hour 6 or 7 of MPC playing the list, though. the DivX5/XviD encode is back on the list as is the HD transport stream.

 

[plonk420]

MPC has been playing for the last 17 hours straight, no crashes (Windows 7)

Originally posted by: plonk420
random x264 HD TV show MKV, Soft Subbed Anime MKV, my own x264 encode MP4, MPEG-2 HD Transport Stream, MPEG4 ASP AVI.

 

[KeypoX]

http://tech.slashdot.org/artic...02/16/2259257&from=rss
Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7

 

[plonk420]

i already don't plan on getting it unless you can bring the Quickstart menu back... pity, because i really liked it. er, i mean i didn't hate it any more than i do Vista.

edit: oh hay! Google works!

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: KeypoX
http://tech.slashdot.org/artic...02/16/2259257&from=rss
Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7

That article is utter crap. The Adobe problem is because they were using a bad crack, and Local Settings no longer exists since Vista did away with it (it's now a junction, which Explorer doesn't follow). I can't recall the last time I saw such a terrible article on Slashdot.

 

[plonk420]

because it's awwwwite using a good crack vs a bad crack?

i'm more disturbed at the audio revelation in the post...

also, been playing those random videos for 24+ hours straight in MPC HC.. ~30 by the time i wake up for work later today... it's almost a pity WMP is so unstable. if it didn't force its decoders upon the user, it might actually be useful. :/

 

[zerogear]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Why did Microsoft have to come out with new, buggy, and incompatible versions of two of the most-used built-in apps bundled with the OS.

I have a friend that installed Windows 7 beta 1, and he's having a heck of a time getting online television media players to work properly. I can just imagine how corporations are going to feel, as I'm sure that they probably just standardized on IE7, and now MS rolls out IE8.

Why do we need a new browser anyways? What was wrong with IE7? I thought that it was the best version of IE yet, best security and the most standards-compliant (compared to IE5 and IE6).

while IE7 is ok, it still isn't in compliance with web standards. I think at the moment, Microsoft finally takes web standards correctly and IE8 can finally pass the Acid 2 test; though at the moment, they still fail Acid 3.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: plonk420
because it's awwwwite using a good crack vs a bad crack?

i'm more disturbed at the audio revelation in the post...

I'm not sure what you're getting at with a crack. As for the audio, that's nothing new, Vista does the same thing. Which is to say, it's just a setting, you're not blocked from copying audio.

Like I said before, this is without a doubt the worst article ever. It's a tragedy of user errors due to a massively undersized brain.

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Like I said before, this is without a doubt the worst article ever. It's a tragedy of user errors due to a massively undersized brain.

The simple truth of this is so profound in reference to most of the content posted on /. that I had to add it to my sig. Imagine all the readers on /. that have more massively undersized brains that eat this crap up and believe it.

 

[KeypoX]

so can you guys clear up what is true and not true about that article on slashdot?

 

[soonerproud]

Here is Adrian Kingsley-Hughes blog post on ZDNet concerning that article.

Worst. Windows 7. Piece. EVER!

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: soonerproud
Here is Adrian Kingsley-Hughes blog post on ZDNet concerning that article.

Worst. Windows 7. Piece. EVER!

Yep. Everything on that article is wrong, that's why it's so bad. There is nothing I've found in W7 that is any different than Vista.

 

[plonk420]

i guess in this case it didn't help to RTFA... didn't read the comments til after the followup comments in THIS thread.

 

[Griffinhart]

Originally posted by: KeypoX
http://tech.slashdot.org/artic...02/16/2259257&from=rss
Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7

User installs software. Changes installed DLLs to crack the software. Software stops working. User Blames "Draconian DRM in Windows 7" on a blatantly anti-MS web site. Other Anti-MS folks post links to original rant on /..

 

[soonerproud]

Here is another article with a more detailed explanation of what is wrong with that article on /..

Oh, the humanity: Windows 7's draconian DRM? (Ars Technica)