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Windows 7 and general bitching about OSes
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: iindigo on January 10, 2009, 06:21:12 PM ---Well I was partially suggesting that things such as the Programs start menu submenu and myriads of desktop shortcuts simply do not need to exist. Just have a cut-and-dry "programs go here" directory and make most applications self-contained (scattered DLLs everywhere = bad). Then if you really must have a program menu, just make it directly reflect the programs directory without the pointless shortcut middlemen.
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Oh, but all the joy of having a shortcut! Without shortcut I wouldn't be able to have BF2 run atright aspect. I wouldn't be able to launch mods for it or Homeworld 2. Shortcut is the greatness! you can modify the aspects and the program executable is still unchanged!
--- Quote ---Both are rather messy. I hate how the system folder is a huge ball of ambiguously-named files. My suggestion would simply add some much-needed organization.
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You hate it? Is it something you need to check on a daily basis? is your life really so boring that you care where the DLL files are?
Anyway most stupid people usually stay away from those folders when they see the mess. It's for their own good, now if you can excuse me, I need to organize my system32 folder just because I will not look in it for another 3 moths or so.
iindigo:
--- Quote from: Dragoon AceHigh on January 10, 2009, 10:34:02 PM ---You hate it? Is it something you need to check on a daily basis? is your life really so boring that you care where the DLL files are?
Anyway most stupid people usually stay away from those folders when they see the mess. It's for their own good, now if you can excuse me, I need to organize my system32 folder just because I will not look in it for another 3 moths or so.
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Haha, well no I can't say it's something I enjoy doing or do regularly :P It's just rather annoying whenever I do have to work in there.
I've actually heard of a couple cases where less-knowledgeable people were wandering around their C: drive cleaning up files and when they found system32, they just cleared it all out since none of files within had an obvious purpose. Of course things didn't work so well next time they rebooted. It's not reason enough to organize the system32 folder by itself, but I thought it was a little funny...
BluePenguin:
--- Quote from: mgz on January 10, 2009, 07:22:41 PM ---if its using less resources and is more efficient it = better battery life on your laptop
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Well that is true, but I don't see it being that big of a difference.
Lonewolf5460:
Its nice I am impressed so much lighter that vista this is what vista should have been.
Running on P4 3.0 ghz 2 gigs and an fx 5200 (with areo) and its running faster than xp or vista ever was.
Dont make fun though upgrading this month to something more respectable.
BTW cpu utilization on idle 0-2% with my normal start up items better than vistas 5-7%
edit : 540 mb of ram used on start up compared to vistas 1 gig granted with CS3 and other intensive apps I have never seen ram use go over 65%
extra2000:
--- Quote from: iindigo on January 10, 2009, 08:36:17 PM ---Both are rather messy. I hate how the system folder is a huge ball of ambiguously-named files. My suggestion would simply add some much-needed organization.
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Microsoft might never change it for backwards compatibility. Many of the system calls performed are stored in that //system/ directory, re-organizing these system wide shared objects will just put more work on them having to re-link the objects during run-time of older applications.
The reason for putting the specific DLL inside the program folder is to share common code across specific number of applications so when uninstalling and removing the program folder, it is not going to affect the whole system.
--- Quote from: iindigo on January 10, 2009, 11:02:37 PM ---Haha, well no I can't say it's something I enjoy doing or do regularly :P It's just rather annoying whenever I do have to work in there.
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You can hide the directory if you want. In fact you can hide the whole //windows/ directory so you would not be annoyed. Besides, why would you work with that directory? There is no point unless you are looking for system executables or shared libraries for use with other applications.
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