Re: crappy windows software

From: Rufio (Bran_britain_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:00:14 -0700

"ND" <nd@nd2.nd2.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Rufio" <Bran_britain@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:kCRTc.46840$Oi.17691@fed1read04:
>
> > And that's exactly the problem - everyone else is (allegedly) OK.
> >
> > I DON'T CARE IF EVERYONE ELSE HAS NO PROBLEMS (?). The one O/S I
> > currently have running fails on a regular basis. File Manager/Windows
> > Explorer (I still remember when I saw almost the same thing in XTREE
> > GOLD) has failed more than once just by trying to open a folder.
> > Windows Media Player fails every so often, Office fails about twice a
> > week (it would fail more, if I used it more). Currently my DVD, CD &
> > floppy drives can't see when a disk has been insterted 90% of the
> > time. The drives have been working fine. Now I've given up trying to
> > use any of my removable media drives.
> >
> > When I ran 98 SE, I really didn't have anything like as many problems
> > as now. No other product that I have in my house fails as often as my
> > M$ products.
> >
>
> Microsoft definitely makes buggy software. That said, lets see if we can
> get your system in a more stable state. Run utilities that will look for
> problems on your disk -- checkdisk, anti-virus check (download up-to-date
> definitions), anti-spyware (Spybot, Ad-Aware, and Spyware Blaster).
> Consider installing more secure e-mail and web browser programs than IE
> and Outlook Express -- Netscape and Opera come to mind. Then run a
> program that cleans out the cobwebs in the registry ... something like
> RegVac. If after all that, your computer is still unstable, reinstall
> Windows from CD.
>
>

Thanks.

I do already run a daily virsus scan & a weekly run of Adware 6.0 (updating
it, before each scan. It normally just finds cookies. As I have a router &
third party firewall, I'm not too desparate to change from IE & OE. I tried
Opera & I found it far more efficitent with memory use (I could start the
same homepage in IE & Opera & both took about 20 Meg. But Opera released
most of it soon afterwards.Also, I kinda like Xnews too. If I can get my
iBook up & running again, I'll be back to using Safari, Mail (& Thoth for
Usenet). I used to use MS Entourage as a mail client....................but
it kept crashing :o)

But I will try RegVac. I've never been keen on manually editing the
registry - I didn't want to take the time, to learn how. I think I'll
recheck my router settings too - see if I can improve. So, I don't think
I'll bother with SP2 for now - I think the risk of breaking something is
greater than the improvements it brings. I'm waiting to do a clean install
of Longhorn, once the official version ships.

I'm off now to talk to Iomega about their DVD drive (after 4 hours today,
I've come to the conclusion it's doing some weird stuff).

Thanks again.................Dave C.

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