Re: Is it a bad sign...

On 2008-10-30, Kenny <kentilton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And where should I put my money in my next computer?

The empty bay below the DVD burner.

Is AMD any different than Intel, or shouls I save $150?

I don't know about ``then'', but different ``from'', certainly.

I know Vista is stupid, but is it slow? I'll be getting a lot of RAM.

I've been running Vista for like a year and a half. Yes, it is slow, but
the reason for that is all the crap that is enabled by default.

I.e. it's slow in the default setup, due to stupid reasons that
don't appear to have anything to do with the kernel.

If you go through the list of services and scheduled tasks, and kill everything
superfluous and useless, it will be a lot faster.

For instance, I discovered that, out-of-the-box, Vista was running a full hard
drive defragmentation daily! And lots of other stupidities.

It also runs Microsoft Anti-Spyware (which has been renamed Windows Defender).
This seems to slows down the system quite a bit; Defender is among the things
that I killed. Also, I don't run any anti-virus bull***. Anti-virus software
doesn't work, and infections are a dumb-user problem anyway.

99% of the virus problems out there are because people say yes to ``please run
this .exe to install the codec needed for viewing this porn file''.

So, quite literally, most Windows viruses are in fact sexually transmitted!
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