Windows 2000 help needed

[Ford]

oh ok. had thought they changed it so browser by default doesn't open with admin rights.

[adridude]

thats what I thought too when it first showed up Microsoft doesn't warn you about things like that!

 

lol, I remember when Windows 95 was first released and I got a copy of it as a young teen. First thing I tried was the 'all new right click' function... Right clicked on something and something popped up saying 'What is This' LOL.... Needless to say, yet another microsoft confusion maker I was genuinely under the impression that it should have told me haha Kinda like the functionality it has now with hovering your mouse over something hahaha

 

*edit* just to add you can disable that annoying UAC functionality. Not advisable though as it prevents unwanteds from installing

[sillygirl1]

Its all very well to say 'Get a Mac', but I only do emails and the odd bit of word processing so I am going to get a tablet instead.

 

I can't afford a Mac, having just come off JSA for 2 1/2 years.!

[renegadeimp]

Unless you are stupidly rich, you are into 3D rendering or video rendering, there is pretty much NO point in getting a mac. You can do everything else, and more, just with a regular pc. And the PC can be the same spec as the mac, and half the price.

[dx100uk]

sorry but if you use an administrator windows log-in

it bypasses most of the scripting / activeX protection in IE

always has done

 

that s how the viruses are written to exploit it.

UAC does not activate on 'add-ins' to MS programs anyhow

 

none of this is helping the OP>

 

dx

[adridude]

Its all very well to say 'Get a Mac', but I only do emails and the odd bit of word processing so I am going to get a tablet instead.

 

I can't afford a Mac, having just come off JSA for 2 1/2 years.!

 

Actually there are some pretty good Droid tablets out there which cost less than a PC and an iPad... Just thinking back I've seen a few on amazon only costing £40 :-/ Not sure how reliable they are tho, but they're only 7 inchers - LOL!

 

Unless you are stupidly rich, you are into 3D rendering or video rendering, there is pretty much NO point in getting a mac. You can do everything else, and more, just with a regular pc. And the PC can be the same spec as the mac, and half the price.

 

Macs being better at 3D rendering is a myth. This only applied to the PowerPC range of mac's which is a thing of the past I mean in 2011, I got this Macbook Pro 15 inch (top spec) and all I got for graphics was: Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB

 

Stupidly rich? I'm not stupidly rich at all :-/ Infact, I saved on money with this laptop. I got it back in 2011, with SSD and it's still higher spec than most other quad core i7 laptops Only thing that I KNOW I will hate is when they release a MBP with touchscreen... THAT will annoy me!

 

@DX: I'm sure we all concluded that he/she uses hirens bootcd?

[renegadeimp]

Not a myth at all. The OS is designed to take MUCH more advantage of the hardware than a PC could. Thats why desaign professionals, game studios, music producers regularly use macs. Even pixar uses macs hooked up to their supercomputer. Macs are just much more efficient at doing what they do best. For everything else, theres windows.

[san_d]

Nowadays you can get a decent refurbished netbook at your local computer fair for less than £100. You can install a decent Linux distribution (that is not Fedora or Ubuntu) and you have a complete set of software without breaking the bank.

[adridude]

Not a myth at all. The OS is designed to take MUCH more advantage of the hardware than a PC could. Thats why desaign professionals, game studios, music producers regularly use macs. Even pixar uses macs hooked up to their supercomputer. Macs are just much more efficient at doing what they do best. For everything else, theres windows.

 

I like an admission that OSX is better

[renegadeimp]

OSX is better for a whole host of stuff. It's just windows does everything else better. Thats why places like Nasa use windows as their main OS, and only use a unix distro ( self compiled) to do their number crunching.

[adridude]

In Windows defence, only thing I find it good for is business revenue. The amount of support one of my companies gives is immense in comparison to the other Mac based Scientific business. On the other side, I wouldn't trust Windows with the reliability when it comes to the speed of measuring the firing of a photon from here to the moon and back without crashing or freezing between point of release and point of capture. That is neither graphics or 3D, it's just pure Number Crunching my a bunch of Mac Pro servers running OSX.

 

*edit* literally to the moon and back thanks to their mirrors left from the lunar ranging experiments for observatories to play with

 

*lol jsut to add, hotmail and outlook.com use FreeBSD servers*

[FelixDaHousecat]

Seriously, don't waste a single minute of your time or a single penny of your money on this project. The outcome will never be good and it will end in tears!

[renegadeimp]

No need to bump an already completed thread.

[FelixDaHousecat]

What?