Myself, I'm a big fan of avg pc tuneup.
disk defrag, registry cleaning, junk file deletion, internet optimising and
a lot of other handy stuff such as system backups.
Sinse I've been using it my pc has actually sped up no end.
Funnily enough though, the thing that has caused me most problems in
windows, and the thing I hate most is user accounts.
The major crash I had a couple of years ago was due to uac file corruption,
the reason i originally couldn't install the first version of net framework
and thus couldn't play many games (including Tom's), was uac problems, my
old laptop had issues with Uac etc.
When one person is using the machine, I really! wish you could just turn off
all the user accounts log in rubbish and have everything install in all
users, in fact I'm surprised microsoft never thought of this given how many
single user machines are out there, ----- then again microsoft and thought
don't really go together do they ;D.
While I know there are technically better systems, I'm afraid I personally
will not be switching simply because most of the things I need to do are
windows specific. The games I play, my dvd playing program, even my phd
thesis is written in office.
While I imagine there are solutions for some of these on other platforms
such as lynux (I know winamp can be installed on multiple platforms and
that's my main music player), none of them will have the amount available
that windows has, especially when it comes to games.
It just seems another case of vhs vs betamax. Betamax videos were more
stabled, produced better picture and sound quality, and could hold more info
than vhs.
Indeed, I used to have a good many betamax films including Flight of
Dragons, ghostbusters and never ending story, sinse they tended to be
cheaper than vhs and when i was growing up we never had much money.
Yet, vhs completely took over simply because more money was invested in
promotion, sales and everything else, and it became the format of choice,
thus we had to switch.
This is an inherent problem of capitalism, actually outlined by my friend
Mr. Marx, that, despite what some people would have you believe, it's not
the best! product that wins, it's the most prophitable.
Thus, in terms of windows, I have to take a pragmatic stance on what I use
my computer for, and currently, that unfortunately means getting windows
sinse the majority of stuff I do is windows specific.
Then, there is the technical issue. Mac's are currently waaaaaay more
expensive than I'd want to spend for a desktop, and lynux, while an
interesting idea is something I just don't feel I have the technical knowhow
to deal with.
While I'm relatively comfortable in windows, the idea of doing all the
compiling and looking through system files that lynux seems to need is one I
don't particularly like, not when in windows everything is so much
easier, ---- remember, I have no it qualifications or training whatsoever,
and everything i know I've picked up either through trial and experience, or
through chatting to some of my more qualified friends.
when recently my pc got a virus which pretended to be a crytical harddware
error and I thought I'd need to upgrade, I was not looking forward to
windows 7 and it's silly interface at all, but it's something I'm just going
to have to cope with if I want to continue doing what I do with a computer,
and doing it with the same ease.
Thus, while I appreciate the cross platform arguement, I'm afraid I'm a
litle stuck trying to follow it myself, at least as far as lynux goes (mac's
are rather too expensive for me to considder).
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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