“Windows XP is much more than flash and color. Turn it into a stone cold performance machine with these tweaks and tricks.” An in-depth ExtremeTech article on how to optimize your WindowsXP. If you are interested in such tweaks for your system, the ultimate web site for this kind of job is of course TweakXP.And to add another little tip, as found on XP-erience.org: “According to Microsoft, ‘Advanced file permissions’ is only available in XP Pro, however it is available in XP Home as well. All you have to do is boot into Safe Mode, rt-click any file or folder, goto properties and now you will have the ‘Security tab’ – just as in XP Pro/2K/NT! You now have full control over all file permissions – ie., Read, Write, Execute, deny, allow, full control, etc, etc. Make your changes and reboot and there you have it. Remember that NTFS must be your file system.
You can also do this in XP Home without booting into Safe mode, however it is all command prompt. Go to your cmmd prompt and type ‘calcs’ – without the quotes. Remember that when applying permissions in this manner to pay attention to your context!”
Does it say how to remove all of those PayPer LieSense FeeChurns? Does it tell about how every dollar collected is being used in some felonious effort to eliminate freedom of choice, world wide? Does it tell about all the virus friendly email feechurns of the infactdead BugWear? Does it?
http://www.scaredcity.com>These haven’t used any bogus PayPer LieSense BugWear in several years & couldn’t like IT more, but that’s http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=386>another .
We’re also <a href=http://www.linuxville.com>here for you, should you need us? Party on Eugenia.
opened the zealot door? I thought the saving grace was that a few urls were posted, however, going to those proved to be a waste of time as well. As always intelligent criticism preferred.
back to the subject…
Some of those tweaks actually work pretty good. Anyone using WinXP should definately check it out.
The only good theme i found at themexp.org was Watercolor 3 if anyones interested. I wish microsoft wouldn’t make the format so closed, as StyleBuilder is rather buggy and i’d prefer to be able to do as much (based on the classic style) or as little as i wanted instead of the whole damn thing.
I get the message that I don’t have rights to access / on this server…
>Party on Eugenia.
OSNews is reporting on every… living OS out there. This is our statement and goal. We are not interested in [your] politics or your personal hatred towards some companies (even if justified, we are not interested – we only care for the technology they have to offer). On OSNews you will find news from half-made OSes, up to Linux, OS/2, BeOS, AtheOS etc and of course, Windows.
Linux gets the most news posts over here anyway. If you got a problem with our content, please email us about it and stop the trolling.
The_doctor, thank you for your mature comment.
>Eugenia, it’s not possible to access BeNews!
I know. We are taking our web site away from Site5, and getting it to another provider. Site5 seems to be EXTREMELY restricted on the shared servers (they say that we consume up to 45 processes!!). They are suspending our web site even when I changed from (the cpu intensive) PHP/Post-Nuke to plain 21 kb HTML file! We only get 2,000 visitors a day on BeNews these days (we were getting 20,000 at this time last year), but Site5 still suspending their service towards us. So, we are moving again to another provider. I have no idea when we will be ready on the new servers. It may take a week or so. But hopefully that will be our last downtime!
write, we don’t like to think about OJ’s murderer “problem”, after all wasn’t he a good football player (feature filled)?
& john gotti, other than his little mobster problem, he was a terrific organizer?
Hate is a strong word eugenia. Disliking endless deceptive MiSleading BS PR MiSinformation (whatever the source) seems appropriate to us. thanks again, for your input.
Is seems to me that Windows still needs rebooting for
minor changes (e.g. starting and stopping services). To wit:
Under the Startup tab […] you can disable things that you suspect are
unnecessary, such as Microsoft Office’s TSR, Quicken Agent […] . The
beauty of the SCU is that disabled items aren’t permanently deleted: you
can uncheck particular components, reboot, and then test […] [If]
something has ceased to function, you can fire the SCU back up, recheck the
box next to the startup item in question, and reboot.
I was amazed when a few days ago Win2K asked me to reboot
after I changed the gateway IP, is this still true for XP?
It’s hard to take this OS seriously when small adjustments
require rebooting the machine!
A “preview” button would be nice (my quote got a bit mangled
Eugenia,
While I dislike mindless ranting and the first poster’s comment I don’t think it’s sensible to try and abstract technology away from the developers. It’s an entirely false distinction and one that will show itself through technology again and again. The personality of developers will always show itself through technology and while a sensible head is wanted, a distinction is not desirable IMO.
Thanks.
How did Eugenia “abstract technology”? I don’t seem to understand how one goes to a site named osnews, and even has the domain osnews.com, and gets pissed about hearing things regarding Windows?? And to top it off, how the webmaster states the obvious (that its a news site), and she’s now abstracting technology away from the developers?
holy abstraction batman! lets get back to business, ok?
nivenh
I never understand why people feel the need to evangalise about Operating Systems too much, everybody has their favourites, obviously, but at the end of the day an OS is just something to get work done.
I enjoy trying new ones out, seeing what the differences are, I run Linux at home when I want to hobby code (i.e. just apps for my own pleasure), I use BeOS at home from time to time because I think the interface is excellent and I use windows at work because I find it by far and away the best environment to ‘Get things done’ after all it has pretty much all the apps I need for development.
All the major OS’s are technically excellent in their own way, and although I would love to switch to Linux full time, its impossible. It may be a stable kernel, but anybody who has used it a lot must be as sick as me of core dumps all over and half written apps crashing out. Everybody keeps telling me that Windows is unreliable but in all honesty, I NEVER had a blue screen in Win2000, not once, maybe those who do are doing something wrong?? I am in charge of three Win2000 servers at work, they are locked in a room and I can’t even remember the last time I went in there!
So Eugenia, keep doing what you are doing now, this is the most balanced site I have come across, so don’t change!!
Thank you, Daryl, the_doctor!
yes of course it’s not the fault of microsoft when windows get a bluescreen. if this stupid users install programms then it’s there fault that windows gets unstable. then windows was not designed to install programms.
or am I wrong ?
Thöms 😉
P.S. my ‘friend’ works for microsoft, and he told me several times, its my fault when I always install a lot of programs that windows is getting slow an unstable
Thoems…of course Windows will get unstable if you install program after program after program, uninstalling inbetween, that is a problem with any operating system, including Linux.
So you are telling me that a badly written .so file or driver in Linux will not cause the system to get unstable….because if you think that you dont know what you are talking about.
Another big cause of windows headaches after from bad drivers, which cause maybe 80% or more of BSOD’s is people uninstalling software improperly, ignore warnings and delete crucial .dll’s and system files.
Windows is like any OS, only install programs you know to be good and reliable. Nobody with any sense installs any software on a WORK machine without making sure it is reliable and will enable users to perform the tasks they need.
otoh in linux you CAN install programs as a user (and have it not affect the rest of system), in difference to windows
….and you CAN use /opt or /usr/local or whatever you want as a prefix for “unstable” software in difference to windows where all apps put libs in c:\winnt\system32
and also you don’t have a registry that gets messed up and unmaintainable after a few dozens of app installations
otoh in linux you CAN install programs as a user (and have it not affect the rest of system), in difference to windows
It is the job of the software developer to make this possible. Microsoft has not done a good job of pushing people away from registry use on install up until now, but .NET adresses this concern. .NET apps are installed by copying into a folder.
Is seems to me that Windows still needs rebooting for
minor changes (e.g. starting and stopping services). To wit: …
You can start and stop services from the MMC (right click My Computer->Manage) to see what affect it would have. A reboot is not necessary. The MSCONFIG app is what wants you to reboot. If you don’t want to reboot, then don’t. Just stop the appropriate services in the Services manager and continue along your merry way. Also, networking config is all dynamic in Win2K/XP. I’m not sure what situation you found yourself in where you needed to reboot, but I would bet it was not actually necessary (even though your third party setup program might have told you it was).
Actually, try switching from (IIRC, could be the other way around) a static IP to DHCP in Win2K. All the times I have, it has asked me to reboot to allow the changes to take effect. But when switching the other way it doesn’t prompt you to reboot. I’m guessing that this is really not necessary as you could just release the interface then renew it. Also changing your network ID(aka. hostname) prompts you for a reboot and I believe also changing your workgroup/domain does the same.
>All the major OS’s are technically excellent in their own way, and although I
>would love to switch to Linux full time, its impossible. It may be a stable
>kernel, but anybody who has used it a lot must be as sick as me of core dumps
>all over and half written apps crashing out. Everybody keeps telling me that
>Windows is unreliable but in all honesty, I NEVER had a blue screen in
>Win2000, not once, maybe those who do are doing something wrong??
Same here. I like Linux, but when it comes to comparing stability and reliability on the desktop, Win2K is the easy winner. Of course, this is using Linux with one of its many GUIs. Maybe if I was running servers I would see a different picture, but on the desktop Win2k is just plain less trouble to use, though I think RedHat installation is less of a pain. Now if MS would just get rid of that @#$@!! Registry and all those lawyers…
OSNews is a great site, I learn about more diffirent Operating Systems and File Systems than all the other sites combined. It seems to be the only site that does not have a strong basis to any one OS. If there is a basis in OSNews then it could be best summed up as “There has got to be a better way!”.
Earl Colby Pottinger
I don’t mind Win2K, but it has one really wierd bug in it. Same with XP. You can write a program with a certain number of tabs and backspaces in a printf, in a loop iterated 5 times(that is how many times I did it anyway) and it blue screens 2K and suspends my harddrives. Number of people on flipcode.com ran it and found the same thing. I forget who the initial person was that found it, must’ve had to much time on their hands. =]
Same program compiled on any other OS runs like it should.
// Crash Win2k/XP(Shouldn’t affect 9x/ME)
#include <stdio.h>
void main(void) {
for(int i = 0; i < 5 ; i++) {
printf(“\t\t\b\b\b”);
}
}
Doh, forgot about the brackets on the include. =] Programmers should know what it is anyway. hehe. <stdio.h>
otoh in linux you CAN install programs as a user (and have it not affect the rest of system), in difference to windows
It is the job of the software developer to make this possible. Microsoft has not done a good job of pushing people away from registry use on install up until now, but .NET adresses this concern. .NET apps are installed by copying into a folder.
Will a user be able to create his own registrys? Cause that would be an equivalent to the unix way then…
I’m not installing programms over programms. I’m talking about office some grafix stuf, 2-3 games, scanner software and some tools. Not 10-20 ‘bad’ shareware-progs.
Can you tell me how I can say if a programm is a ‘good’ one which doesn’t ‘destroy’ my OS? I don’t install progs just to blame MS that it’s getting unstable, I want use these progs. If I have to argue with every prog “do win works after installation ?” (I repeat not with some ‘poor’ shareware) then in my opinion it’s a bad OS. on a good one, normal progs (not drivers !) should not be forced to install stuff in directories which could drive the OS unstable (just my opinion). for example look at RiscOS, all is in the rom and you coudn’t ‘kill’ the OS (OK if you attack the chips with a screwdriver).
I was referring to BeOS, RiscOS where I really has installed a lot of shareware and I didn’t Install the OS a second time (o.k. only upgrades 😉 )
My actual W2000 Installation is at a point where I have to install it new, becaues the scanner software is not working properly (some errors during installation). on a fresh installation it works very fine (repair-inst. of W2k didn’t fix the prob). and you know for shure installing w2k takes 2h only for the OS!!
Thöms