Re:A Few Questions
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:40 pm
69th,
FWIW i agree with everything you've said. Take a uSoft, Intel, AMD for example, their marketing models in order to survive profitably in the consumer world is to obsolete their products and quickly. I seen this strategy first hand as my old company who designed and manufactured consumer telco products did just that.
As you, i also always thought uSoft should release a specialized OS designed to run games or other resource hungry applications without all the needless overhead bells and whistles.
The first thing i do after installing Windows is to fiddle around with the large amount of un-needed processes running in the background either by disabling them permanently or setting them to manual.
In the least, you'd think uSoft would incorporate performance options in standard Windows geared towards running specific types of application more efficiently.
But as you said, uSoft does what it wants to do and usually in the most complicated way possible, take that goofy registry system(from hell) of theirs for example.
A typical complaint from Windows users is that their PC slows down as time goes on or the boots slow down. One of the reasons for this are unInstalled applications and depending on the quality of the uninstall utility can and usually does leave tons of artifacts in the registry.
I regularly use a registry cleaner but have to use it carefully as they can throw the wheat out along with the chaff.
Life was much simpler in that old DOS world!
FWIW i agree with everything you've said. Take a uSoft, Intel, AMD for example, their marketing models in order to survive profitably in the consumer world is to obsolete their products and quickly. I seen this strategy first hand as my old company who designed and manufactured consumer telco products did just that.
As you, i also always thought uSoft should release a specialized OS designed to run games or other resource hungry applications without all the needless overhead bells and whistles.
The first thing i do after installing Windows is to fiddle around with the large amount of un-needed processes running in the background either by disabling them permanently or setting them to manual.
In the least, you'd think uSoft would incorporate performance options in standard Windows geared towards running specific types of application more efficiently.
But as you said, uSoft does what it wants to do and usually in the most complicated way possible, take that goofy registry system(from hell) of theirs for example.
A typical complaint from Windows users is that their PC slows down as time goes on or the boots slow down. One of the reasons for this are unInstalled applications and depending on the quality of the uninstall utility can and usually does leave tons of artifacts in the registry.
I regularly use a registry cleaner but have to use it carefully as they can throw the wheat out along with the chaff.
Life was much simpler in that old DOS world!