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Quote:... you get that in XP too... :roll:
I don't. You get that with every file, are you sure you want to delete this?
The warning is something like, "You Do Not Have Permission To Delete This File: Shortcut to FireFox.exe"
Then after you click "accept?", you get *another warning*, which is the standard one we're all used to (unless you have it turned off, which I can't remember if you can) - "Are you sure you want to delete this file?".
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Quote:Anything better than Win 98 for me. I'm not upgrading until I buy a new computer in a couple years, when they'll package Win Vista it for me, for free.
Hate to break it to you, but when you buy a new computer, part of the price you pay is for the OS. It's not just free... Unless you're getting your computer from an underground source with a pirated OS
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Quote:neuro Wrote:As I understand it, they'll also be rewriting the filesystem to make it further incompatible with previous versions and, as a 'caveat' you will no longer be able to read your Windows volumes from other OSes.
Where did you get this information? WinFS has been postponed so it won't be in Vista. Vista's harddisk encryption feature. Could be bad if it'll be on by default...
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Quote:my current computer (this laptop that im tping on 2.4ghz, 256mb, 32mb shared video) will most likely not run vista. if it does than it would be sooo slooooww....
so when i get a computer upgrade i dont think i will be running vista until the populace believe that vista is
a) stable and secure enough
b) really worth actually using it and is better than XP
I agree 100%:
a) Hmm, don't hold your breath. We can hope, but how many service packs did it take XP?
b) By all accounts Vista is going to be a cool OS to develop on. I don't know what you mean by better, but to me that's better. (hell, I'll probably upgrade for Vista, so I'll still have my XP machine for reliable computing)
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Quote:Vista's harddisk encryption feature. Could be bad if it'll be on by default...
Not unlike the encrypted filesystem EFS which has been included since Win2k? I don't see why harddrive encryption is a bad thing, it is very useful for companies and organisations that are storing sensitive information. Data recovery techniques are fairly good these days, sensitive data can even be retrieved from disks that have been formatted several times over. I think it will be difficult for Microsoft to enable the bitlocker technology (at least for non-OEM copies) by default seeing as it requires an encryption chip on the motherboard to work ;-) though.
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Quote:Sterling Christensen Wrote:Vista's harddisk encryption feature. Could be bad if it'll be on by default...
Not unlike the encrypted filesystem EFS which has been included since Win2k? I don't see why harddrive encryption is a bad thing, it is very useful for companies and organisations that are storing sensitive information. I know, I meant bad for Linux. Linux installers might have trouble resizing an encrypted partition.
I heard somewhere that the plan was to make those chips on the motherboard ubiquitous. But you're probably right.
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Quote:The font looks different, and ...
That's because IE7 has cleartype font smoothing on by default. It can be turned of in Internet Options if you - like me - don't like it.
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While we're on the subject of Vista, does anyone have any official information as to whether it will still have MSDOS? That is, will I still be able to run DOS programs?
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There is no MSDOS in Windows (thanks God) since Windows 2000, just a virtual machine which lets you run MSDOS binaries. Windows Vista will have it as well, but with the same restrictions as W2K and WXP, of course.
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Quote:There is no MSDOS in Windows (thanks God) since Windows 2000, just a virtual machine which lets you run MSDOS binaries. Windows Vista will have it as well, but with the same restrictions as W2K and WXP, of course.
Thanks alot, Nathan, I was worried.
However Windows W2K and WXP do it, the effect is that you can run DOS programs, batch files, and use most of the old DOS commands and support programs.
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