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How about a "this site best viewed with Mozilla Firefox" thingy instead of an angry red box and declarations that IE users are nuts?
My apologies if I came off poorly earlier, but the questionable diplomatic skills spread. Charles was big enough to own up to Mozilla's faults, we can all agree that Microsoft is the software company of the damned, so let's all be happy.
I do have Linux on this machine, after all. I rarely use it because all my really-kickass tools and games are in IE, but still.
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What is IE? An opperating system? I know that all you Geeks and Nerds, ( Said with utmost respect from a wana be!!!) think that Windows is the pits to be polite. But as one who is new to the PERSONAL COMPUTER, ( before retirement, I used mainfraims and had programers to make my flow charts into programs for the Cray-205, TACOSS-III was my baby) I find Windows delightful! EVERYTHING I BUY FOR IT WORKS! When my computer nerd-genius-bro-in-law takes me to the computer show to shop for new software or bits for inside the box, I am amaised at the stuff that works with Windows. At my favorite software vendor's (2 ea.) THERE ARE 3 1/2 TABLES OF SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS AND 1/2 TABLE TO HOLD EVERYTHING ELSE!!!!!! I mean apple, commodore, unix, linix and all the others combined don't cover half of ONE TABLE!!!!
For a complete nummy like me, IT IS THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN!!!!!!! I just wish that someone made a combat flight sim were the user could program in new plane's charicteristics.
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quote:Originally posted by akb1979: So if I install the SP2 from the disk that I have, does that mean that I only need to update Office XP? I've just checked the site - can't do it on a 56K connection, with a 4 hour time limit! 195 mins to do download the office update. In fairness to my family I can't be on that long!
I think it might be on the CD that comes with "The Official Windows XP Magazine". Try looking in WHSmiths.
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Give the new guy a chance. Not everyone here is young and knows a lot of modern computer technology. As long as he is willing to learn along the way and not making a complete ass of himself, we should help him when he needs it and not make him look like a big idiot. After, he can turn the tables on us.
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My only real problem with FF is that some pages take forever to load even with my cable connection and FF won't let me click on a link until the page has finished loading.
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MANY poeple---a majority, even---continue to use and be satisfied with it.
And if all your friends were running an insecure and dangerous program on their computers-- oh, wait...
I find that banner to be overly alarmist, extremely biased
Hehe. That'd be like saying that declaring war on Hitler after he invaded Poland was alarmist, and that saying that he'd just invaded Poland was biased. (Yay for Godwin's law!) And just because it was in a video I watched tonight, "After annexing the Sudetenland and the remainder of Czechoslovokia, Shakespeare invaded Poland in September of 1939..."
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: I think it might be on the CD that comes with "The Official Windows XP Magazine". Try looking in WHSmiths.
I already have the SP2 disk - from the PC Gamer mag. It says that it'll take about 2 hours to install & take 1.8-2.0 GB of my hard drive space. So, does that cover the Windows update and the Office update or just the Windows update?
LOA - see, all it takes is a woman to put us all straight!
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Well ignoring IE for a moment, at the end of 02 when I just had gotten my new computer - Microsoft released a windows update (that was automatically downloaded by my computer at a time when it was wee early hours in the US - day time here) and the next time i turned on my computer it just kept restarting. Subsequently after talking to microsoft support (who denied anywrong doing) and the place I bought the computer from (who were swamped by hundreds of customer's requests for help) my computer was wiped. Since then I had auto update disengaged.
I then go to load all the new updates at a later stage - can't. Well I can but one of them TOTALLY ruins the screen colour settings - i.e. the toolbars, Start button popup menus etc etc are all BLACK - background and text. You can't see anything - you can't even change it back. So I have to delete that update. I tried getting the free CD from microsoft that had all the current updates on it - and it happened again. I haven't updated since. NOW this SP2 comes out - BUT I doubt I'd be able to utilise it's updates as I don't have the earlier updates - and if i did they just stuff up the settings anyway. So what do you do?
Andrew
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AndrewR - that's all sounds terrible. I've never updated Windows due to having a dial-up connection and I have my doubts about the SP2 disk.
I'm doing #1 & #3 of Microsoft's recommended ways to proect my PC (Firewall & uptodate virus definition), and I've never had any major problems so I think that I'll stick with what I've got.
I have, however, downloaded Firefox and it's e-mail program. Should I ever update my PC again (i.e. start with a new HDD) I might very well consider using these alternatives, but as it's only v0.8 I think that I might wait a while. I wann give it a few years to get its bugs sorted out and who knows, in that time you might be suggesting someone else who's made even more improvements than Firefox!
Right now my PC isn't broken, so I'm not going to mess with it - I'm going to play it safe for now. I also don't have the money or the time to spare tinkering with changing things. My PC does what I want it to (surf Net, play games, word process) - so I'm happy.
Thanks for the warning though (needs changing to avoid being insulting - LOA's idea sounds the best) - I have taken it under advisement, done a bit of research, and will keep it in mind if and when things go horribly wrong.
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