Hi Dilwyn,
Well, OK, I'll give it a go. Right now I am installing programs etc. to
get this PC to a comparable level to the 1TB or so of stuff I had on the
old one.
Only 1TB? Surely you must have more than that! ;-)
I can see that turning off UAC would benefit in some ways, although I
don't mind being asked every time I start a program if it makes my
computing safer when something tries to write to somewhere it shouldn't.
Which will probably be every 32 bit application you use! You will get
fed up of it.
When you compare it with Linux, it's old hat! Already!
That I don't doubt, although the comment simply makes you sound like the
"anything but what I use is bad" and NIMBY brigade.
Nah, you know me. I have my likes and dislikes. Having worked with
Windows for years - as a developer and user - I got to know it pretty
much inside and out. Now I'm doing a similar thing on Linux, and
honestly, there's nothing new in Windows 7 that Linux hasn't had for years.
If you want to use Windows, feel free and just ignore my ramblings. :-)
When I say "old hat" - I laughed at all the (expensive?) adverts for
Windows 7 saying that "you can save time by executing programs with one
click instead of two" and "when I move my window on screen, it jumps to
the edge when it gets close" and so on. That's the best that Windows 7
can offer? Linux has been doing that (under KDE at least) since I first
started using it. Back in 2001.
However, I'm man enough to agree that there are things it does better
than Linux. I mentioned the Blue Ray DVDs as one example. When I come up
with another, I'll let you know!
Mind you, having mentioned that it can play Blue Ray, be aware that when
you play Blue Ray DVDs on Windows 7 AND you have an HDMI output socket
on the computer/DVD player, you can only watch in normal quality.
Windows turns off Hi-Def if you play a DVD on a computer with HDMI
output. Does tend to make you wonder what's the point of having Blue Ray
DVD players doesn't it?
CAVEAT: This may be "fixed" now but it used to display a message
"Copyright restrictions prevents playing content with these display
settings" when you attempted to do so. As I said, I've not got any to
play with.
I agree, Windows 7 is much better than XP. (Sound of crash from the
Dilwyn office there?) ;-)
C-R-A-S-H...ouch! Norman agreed with me on something?!?!?! ;-)
Don't I often agree with you? :-)
BTW, back to topic, amid all the winding up of Norman, I somehow got
QL2K working. Worst part is I don't know what I did, as it happened at a
step when I made 3 changes so I don't know which of them got it going.
If I may hazard a guess, did you set the permissions to allow all users
all access? That might have done it.
UAC still queries when it starts of course (I expect it's because QL2K
writes its log file in the Program Files folder as it starts.)
That's correct. Windows doesn't like you doing that any more.
Cheers,
Norm.
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