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Think of it this way: if you don't want someone trespassing down a certain road, there are a few things you can do: 1) you can hope nobody will randomly go down the road; 2) you can put up a sign stating "keep out"; 3) you can put up a locked gate. Yet if someone didn't see the sign or perhaps they couldn't read/understand it, is it still their fault for transgressing? (In this case it seems like Microsoft chose option #1 or perhaps #2.) As to why developers don't "clean up after themselves" I'd guess that it has to do with one of the tenets of good programming: never break anything on the user's system. How do you know that the user didn't install another program that makes use of something from your program? That's also partly the reason why .dll's are commonly left behind when a program is uninstalled - leaving them there won't harm anything (it's unlikely to for the average user, anyway) but removing them might break something else on the user's system.
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2009-10-24, 08:08 | Link #443 |
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I used to do programing on Windows using Visual Basic .net and yes, the registry is a big pain although there are APIs to add or write settings to the registry, they aren't usually deleted even after you uninstall a program unless you specify the uninstaller to delete those entries, but they are usually missed. Microsoft with Visual Studio 2005 added the ability to save to XML-like setting files easily (they were a bit difficult to do in the earlier versions) opposed to using the registry which is good since you don't need to depend so much on the registry, but most still use the registry.
I don't see why Windows can't have a program that automatically gets rid all the registry entries for that program. On Mac OS X, there is a program called Appzapper and Appcleaner which gets rid all the Application Support files (if any), Preferences files and the program with a drag of the program icon. The problem is the registry is a lot more complicated and it's not the programmer's fault and one edit can break the whole system while deleting flat setting files don't in contrast.
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2009-10-24, 13:58 | Link #445 |
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I have been thinking of updating to Win7, but only because it's 64-bit and removes the 4Gb limit on RAM. Currently the games seem to be defaulting to 1Gb and it has to be only a few years before they move on to 2Gb, so buying a new computer now with WinXP and 4Gb RAM is going to be the last of it.
So that's probably what I do: buy a new rig now with 4 gigs of RAM and update from WinXP somewhere between 2014 and 2016. By that time most of the kinks should have been cracked and fixed. |
2009-10-24, 14:12 | Link #446 | |
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But then, Windows is not free so getting a nice Linux distro is the cheapest scenario, plus it does most of the work adequately (although I still prefer MSOffice to OO by far), if only hardware companies would support it as much as Windows.
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2009-10-24, 18:12 | Link #449 |
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From what I've read it's currently limited only to certain h.264 profiles though, so it's possible to run a h.264-encoded video and not receive the benefits of hardware-accelerated playback.
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2009-10-24, 18:42 | Link #450 |
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Also, it won't benefit if you have Perian installed, which overrides the H264 decoder... but I'm hoping that someday there will be a H264 decoder which uses OpenCL to have the GPU decode H264... It's not any difference from CUDA decoding H264 with the GPU... but it's limited on how the file is encoded.
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2009-10-25, 03:25 | Link #452 | |
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Apple promised a full re-engineering of the player, but in the reality the current state of QTX is really lacking, starting from the lack of a new API and architecture for QT components. The times when Mac OS X was THE media platform are long gone. |
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2009-10-25, 07:06 | Link #453 | |
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Just in case, assuming he has the theme loaded, right-click the desktop, go to personalize, then 1) check that Sounds (bottom and a bit to the left) display the Theme name and 2) get inside Sounds and check that the sounds are in place. If some sounds are messed up, you could try browsing for them on the pc (not sure if that'll work if you haven't saved the soundset on your own). If there's no Nanami theme sound there, maybe the downloaded theme file was bad or something?
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2009-10-26, 16:03 | Link #456 | |
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Looks like Windows 7 upgrade is not so smooth after all. There are reports of people not being able to extract the Windows 7 Upgrade from the Student upgrade offer and also upgrade not successful, ending the computer in a endless loop.
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Would have thought Microsoft would fix these problems before they release... but in reality, no...
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2009-10-26, 22:23 | Link #458 | |
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Also your 'review' of a bootcamp windows 7 install was so funny. Should I benchmark the great SnowLeopard in my PC also? I think it would be like 10 times slower than Windows 7, well that's if I can get to install, of course. |
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2009-10-26, 23:35 | Link #460 | |
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