Service Pack 2.

[Phil rr]

in future please don't

[James]

QUOTE (Chris Hutchinson @ Oct 9 2004, 18:54)

QUOTE (James @ Oct 9 2004, 15:04) Heard of a few people having issues getting to grips with the firewal which is automatically switched on in this release - i.e. it can have the effect of stopping a few apps working unless its configured correctly.  Strange that the default has changed :s  This is one thing which peed me off going from 2000->XP - many defaults were changed to what 'they' thought would be better. you can turn it off - select 'I have a firewall I will monitor myself' and its gone :-)   SP2 fixes a load of bugs as well which can only be a good thing?? touch wood, I have had no problems so far anyway Yep agreed - I was just trying to make the point that newbie computer people dont often understand questions such as that and I dont think MS should change defaults from release to release

[LiquidEyes]

Yeah well, what is annoying to a few computer boffins is good for the majority!

 

You have to admit, what MS do makes a lot of business sense! TBH there were only about 7 or 8 settings I had to change after installing XP to make it suit me (such as showing system folders, showing file extensions, not retaining a different view for every folder, etc). And for the majority of people, hiding system folders etc are sensible defaults.

 

By definition, every move to make software easier for the masses, will piss somebody off somewhere along the line.

 

Not all MS's software is "dumbed down". IMHO Microsoft Developer Studio .NET is a legendary product -- aimed at power users, perfect for power users (but still easy to use). A great example of MS pitching their software at the right level for the market.

[Phil rr]

QUOTE (LiquidEyes @ Oct 10 2004, 13:41)

Not all MS's software is "dumbed down". IMHO Microsoft Developer Studio .NET is a legendary product -- aimed at power users, perfect for power users (but still easy to use). A great example of MS pitching their software at the right level for the market.

never used it, but .NET is a product aimed at power users, so you'd expect it to be like that

[James]

Yeah, I guess you cant really knock any MS products - not much competition really. Its all too easy to concentrate on the negative things I guess !

[Phil rr]

definitely!

 

windows is shite though

[Guest]

My nero doesn't work. Great.

 

Having to use Real One now though. But then again, it's much quicker than Nero.

[LiquidEyes]

QUOTE (Maria @ Oct 15 2004, 15:58)

My nero doesn't work. Great.

Don't say I didn't warn you!

 

Just get the latest update off the Nero website.

[Olli]

i installed it on my laptop, and it screwed up the plug and play and also i couldnt connect to the internet. was a pain in the arse. i just used a restore point from the previous day to remove it. everything is fine again, and i cant see the point in installing it to be honest

 

 

 

Olli