this is a really minor thing, but if I'm copying a load of files from one place to another and one of the files fails (eg: destination file already exists and can't be overwritten) the rest of the files don't get copied. Why can't it give you a dialog box and ask if you want to ignore that file?
this is a really minor thing, but if I'm copying a load of files from one place to another and one of the files fails (eg: destination file already exists and can't be overwritten) the rest of the files don't get copied. Why can't it give you a dialog box and ask if you want to ignore that file?
Oh yeah, that's a good one. That really annoys me.
Form Factor----try this app called <a href="http://www.majorgeeks.com/download414.html">Easy Cleaner</a>. There is a space usage map which will break down by percentage and pie chart what exactly is on your hard drive.
There are some other useful options too, such as registry cleaner, start-up cleaner, and add/remove programs cleaner. Good little app overall!
This was an idea my father (Sticky51) mentioned to me while we were biking on Sunday, but since he is a mere lurker on this forum, I will post it for him:
Put the OS on a Read-only solid-state memory chip that plugs into the motherboard.
Foreseeable Advantages:
Easier to do a complete wipe of the system, since the OS never needs to be 'installed'
Can't nuck with the OSs settings nearly as much
Files can't be corrupted on purpose by malicious software
Simple to change your OS 'on the fly' as it were (certain progs would still only run under certain OSs, but you could keep all of your program files and resources on the same partition of the same drive if you wished, and just reboot with a different OS chip when needed).
Foreseeable Disadvantages:
OS developers could 'hardwire' bundled program packages into the chips.
Can't nuck with the OSs settings nearly as much.
--
As you can see, I feel that the reduction of customizability is a bit of a double-edged-sword. It would be a great boon for the systems admin at a large company, but it would be a detriment to the guru... Perhaps there would be special edition 'guru' OS chips that allow customization at the software level, so that you can do whatever you want, but still revert it back to the original settings by deleting the customization files.
The biggest adantage I can see to having the OS on a chip or solid state cartridge, is that the PC would be "instant on". And since it wouldn't degrade while sitting in Ram, the kernel would never have to be rebooted to fix a problem.
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BlackHawkBible music connoisseurThere's no place like 127.0.0.1Icrontian
edited June 2004
I doubt the chip would be that big either. You can have an XP installation that is less than 1GB and that's before actually deleting the files you don't need.
The biggest adantage I can see to having the OS on a chip or solid state cartridge, is that the PC would be "instant on". And since it wouldn't degrade while sitting in Ram, the kernel would never have to be rebooted to fix a problem.
Oh. I forgot that one, and it's probably the best advantage, ya?
The biggest adantage I can see to having the OS on a chip or solid state cartridge, is that the PC would be "instant on". And since it wouldn't degrade while sitting in Ram, the kernel would never have to be rebooted to fix a problem.
It would likely solve Microsoft's piracy problem. The biggest drawback (for MS) is that it would be simple to buy a cartridge with a different OS. More people might experiment with (and stay with) an OS if they didn't have to go through the format\partition\installation business.
I'd like a better file delete app. and have windows do a better job of permanently deleting files after installation. When a file is deleted on the header is changed but the file is still there. It is ignored and could eventually be written over top of but it's still "clutter"
A program like Clean Disk has shown me that, even after a clean install of XP, the drive is riddled with files that were used for installation and "deleted". If it takes so much to find them...then why not have the OS permanently delete them.
Further to the Gamer/Lite version install:
Why not have a boot feature with configurable idiot settings with deeper functions if so desired? That way the user could set a "absolutely every effect/tsr load" or "gamer essential" load on a reboot.
- work 100% of the time
- maintain 100% registry integrity
- not come integrated with a web browser of any kind
- be as secure as linux out of the box
- not require a fresh install every 8 months
- work
- work
- incorporate features of deepFreeze
- work
DeepFreeze sucks. Why not just have a Win2k3 server and give all of your people roaming profiles with no privileges and a disk quota? That way you can do central administration and not have to deal with the hassle of going around to every computer in the building and personally loading updates/virus definitions.
Sorry if this has already been posted but I would like Windows to give me the option of a custom install ...
Like ...if I wanted to do a bare boot to gui only with maybe only windows explorer or whatever options I wanted then that would be cool. I could do a dual boot to a bareassed windows strictly for gaming or folding or something and not have to deal with the bloat!
Even if the gui were an option that would be cool too ...the less overhead the better.
I don't have any links off the top of my head, but it has to do with the web content engine for active desktop. Basically you write a web page and set it to be your desktop. Your web page can include stuff like Flash applets with animated characters that follow your mouse around, etc. The possibilities are endless.
I had some simple animations running on my desktop for awhile, but it lost its novelty pretty quick (it was predictable). You can always run Winamp's Milkdrop visualization in desktop mode if you don't feel like screwing with it.
More modular.
1. Id like to see alternative shells and be able to easily load and unload them through native support.
2. Id like to see themeing done more completely and made much more easy to make your own themes natively in windows.
3. support for background images not jpg or bmp.
4. Centralized theme and shell management system.
5. Far more natively customizable toolbars with vertical or horizontical hide animation.
6. Let windows explorer be able to copy large volumes across a network with out it leaving certain files behind.
7. A much more efficient windows exploder.
8. The ability to run directory comparisons in windows exploder.
9. Native dvd playback support with out 3rd party codec.
10. native mp3 tools for ripping etc..
11. Driver uninstalls actually remove the driver completely.
12. minimal services install. More modular features installation.
13. More options during install on what gets loaded.
14. NO WINDOWS MESSENGER
15. Outlook Express use a single backupable file to store information.. like outlook.
16. the ability to back up and easily reload the wpa.dbl file when you are reloading the OS.
Browse the internet without the need of any other utility like Download Manager,FTP,Email , firewall,iM An all in one Internet Explorer, with no security threat. JUST A DREAM COME TRUE.
Browse the internet without the need of any other utility like Download Manager,FTP,Email , firewall,iM An all in one Internet Explorer, with no security threat. JUST A DREAM COME TRUE.
wow, thats gonna bring ms even more lawsuits
including all of those download manager, FTP client, email client, iM and all.
Windows is a bloody file magnet. After a year, it's lugging so much useless crap around... I'd like to see a sweeper prog to clean up all the orphaned files left behind.
Animated backgrounds would be cool too!
Alot of the useful Admin stuff is way too buried for easy finding.
DeepFreeze sucks. Why not just have a Win2k3 server and give all of your people roaming profiles with no privileges and a disk quota? That way you can do central administration and not have to deal with the hassle of going around to every computer in the building and personally loading updates/virus definitions.
-drasnor
That's what we did at school. SO much easier to administrate than deepfreeze. God that program was retarded.
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Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
This was an idea my father (Sticky51) mentioned to me while we were biking on Sunday, but since he is a mere lurker on this forum, I will post it for him:
Put the OS on a Read-only solid-state memory chip that plugs into the motherboard.
Foreseeable Advantages:
Easier to do a complete wipe of the system, since the OS never needs to be 'installed'
Can't nuck with the OSs settings nearly as much
Files can't be corrupted on purpose by malicious software
Simple to change your OS 'on the fly' as it were (certain progs would still only run under certain OSs, but you could keep all of your program files and resources on the same partition of the same drive if you wished, and just reboot with a different OS chip when needed).
Foreseeable Disadvantages:
OS developers could 'hardwire' bundled program packages into the chips.
Can't nuck with the OSs settings nearly as much.
--
As you can see, I feel that the reduction of customizability is a bit of a double-edged-sword. It would be a great boon for the systems admin at a large company, but it would be a detriment to the guru... Perhaps there would be special edition 'guru' OS chips that allow customization at the software level, so that you can do whatever you want, but still revert it back to the original settings by deleting the customization files.
So, you want Windows CE expanded to full size, running on a 2 GIG read-only IBM Microdrive that is locked to read-only or inaccessible to all users except admin and the system??? Somewhat as Linux has most of its stuff locked to root (equiv of admin in Windows), the stuff is inviisble to users or normal sort, and has scripts to fix some security violates (like invalid file perms known to open holes, ala Mandrake's msec checker, which will restore secure settings for system files all by itself-- running as a root process that is scheduled with cron or atd or both) and notify the admin in email internal to the box when users try to violate system integrity??? How about a Server OS version of Windows on a workstation, as far as system integrity and security goes, and a user-frienly front-end??? That seems to be in essence what most of us want, other than less intrusive ads and marketing and more functionality at lower and higher levels.
Some of the folks that wrote TweakUI versions over the years thought so too (flexible config should be there in depth, they thought, so major Widnows devs WROTE TweakUI jsut to fill in holes they themselves wanted filled in on thier boxes), but were shot down by marketting at MS. Essentially, MS digressed from a world where NT was server, 95 was workstation\end node box, to a plethora of specialized server packs. BUT, server was never high-mdeia internal to the server for direct access, except for Media Server packs.
What I would like is a Windows that does NOT have to be reloaded so DANG often, and copies of William R. Stanek's Microsoft Windows Command Line (for 2000 and XP adn some server admin also) available to all advanced users who want to do batch or scripted administrative things in an advanced manner-- wait a sec, its $29.95 and is ISBN 0-7356-2038-5 (Publisher: Microsoft Press). NEAT book, and you can do all sorts of things as admin in XP. NOW, if MS would doc this in detail themselves in ACCESSIBLE and plain-english-searchable-by-function-desired KBs other than deep in the MSDN help pages, that would be a real nice thing.... BUT NOBODY has come up with an index that is totally plain english searchable, except Google. Microsoft, get soem Google appliances and USE them to bot yourselves, PLEASE.
THEN, let the appliances do the searching. I hate remembering kbd for keyboard, etc, and other non-intuitive keywords based on DOS keywords, get a CONTENT indexer that auto-updates FREQUENTLY, and with IN-HOUSE security but accessible as a live index that is read-only to outsiders and focus it on ALL OF Microsoft.com. Give us a master index, PLEASE, to Microsoft.com, based on plain English, not endless subsites and subareas, with cross-links that are broken way too often as the end page's URL may morph due to a typo as it is stored-- and that might not be found for weeks.... NEXT, standardize all of microsoft.com on one .asp varaint, settle on .asp, aspx, OR .mspx and dang it, update all the browsers you dev to sync on using that one active server page var while browsing Microsoft.com. While you are at it, make your active data components unable to go wild, PLEASE! THEN DOCUMENT the access rules allowed and set them in stone-- and DON'T VIOLATE THEM YOURSELVES!
Of course if they did that, the next Windows version would be out in 2009 or 2010, as some of the rules still need to be written and agreed upon across 6 dev divisions, but if they did that I would be willing to wait for that version. And include in it an administrator's workstation version that is hypersecure about allowing other than the boxes' owners to access the box and alter it at all. Then License OpenOffice and provide it free with Windows, and provide Mozilla as a browser option..... (THIS last will never happen, methinks, but one can HOPE, right???)
-have GPO's without being joined to a domain controller
-minimal services started by default
-not hitting f6 t install raid drivers or adding them to windows installation
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There are some other useful options too, such as registry cleaner, start-up cleaner, and add/remove programs cleaner. Good little app overall!
I'd like the disk defragmenter to be more robust, and accessible.
I want an advanced installation process that shows each service not critical to the OS, what it does, and gives me the option to leave it off.
if you want to see a swanky drive map check out Spacemonger
and I like Thrax's suggestion for seperating all os required services from the rest, so I can turn everything off
Put the OS on a Read-only solid-state memory chip that plugs into the motherboard.
Foreseeable Advantages:
Easier to do a complete wipe of the system, since the OS never needs to be 'installed'
Can't nuck with the OSs settings nearly as much
Files can't be corrupted on purpose by malicious software
Simple to change your OS 'on the fly' as it were (certain progs would still only run under certain OSs, but you could keep all of your program files and resources on the same partition of the same drive if you wished, and just reboot with a different OS chip when needed).
Foreseeable Disadvantages:
OS developers could 'hardwire' bundled program packages into the chips.
Can't nuck with the OSs settings nearly as much.
--
As you can see, I feel that the reduction of customizability is a bit of a double-edged-sword. It would be a great boon for the systems admin at a large company, but it would be a detriment to the guru... Perhaps there would be special edition 'guru' OS chips that allow customization at the software level, so that you can do whatever you want, but still revert it back to the original settings by deleting the customization files.
Oh. I forgot that one, and it's probably the best advantage, ya?
And thanks to all for the drivespace map suggestions!
A program like Clean Disk has shown me that, even after a clean install of XP, the drive is riddled with files that were used for installation and "deleted". If it takes so much to find them...then why not have the OS permanently delete them.
Further to the Gamer/Lite version install:
Why not have a boot feature with configurable idiot settings with deeper functions if so desired? That way the user could set a "absolutely every effect/tsr load" or "gamer essential" load on a reboot.
- maintain 100% registry integrity
- not come integrated with a web browser of any kind
- be as secure as linux out of the box
- not require a fresh install every 8 months
- work
- work
- incorporate features of deepFreeze
- work
-drasnor
Like ...if I wanted to do a bare boot to gui only with maybe only windows explorer or whatever options I wanted then that would be cool. I could do a dual boot to a bareassed windows strictly for gaming or folding or something and not have to deal with the bloat!
Even if the gui were an option that would be cool too ...the less overhead the better.
-drasnor
How and do you have any links?
I had some simple animations running on my desktop for awhile, but it lost its novelty pretty quick (it was predictable). You can always run Winamp's Milkdrop visualization in desktop mode if you don't feel like screwing with it.
-drasnor
More modular.
1. Id like to see alternative shells and be able to easily load and unload them through native support.
2. Id like to see themeing done more completely and made much more easy to make your own themes natively in windows.
3. support for background images not jpg or bmp.
4. Centralized theme and shell management system.
5. Far more natively customizable toolbars with vertical or horizontical hide animation.
6. Let windows explorer be able to copy large volumes across a network with out it leaving certain files behind.
7. A much more efficient windows exploder.
8. The ability to run directory comparisons in windows exploder.
9. Native dvd playback support with out 3rd party codec.
10. native mp3 tools for ripping etc..
11. Driver uninstalls actually remove the driver completely.
12. minimal services install. More modular features installation.
13. More options during install on what gets loaded.
14. NO WINDOWS MESSENGER
15. Outlook Express use a single backupable file to store information.. like outlook.
16. the ability to back up and easily reload the wpa.dbl file when you are reloading the OS.
well thats all I can think of at this moment...
wow, thats gonna bring ms even more lawsuits
including all of those download manager, FTP client, email client, iM and all.
Animated backgrounds would be cool too!
Alot of the useful Admin stuff is way too buried for easy finding.
That's what we did at school. SO much easier to administrate than deepfreeze. God that program was retarded.
So, you want Windows CE expanded to full size, running on a 2 GIG read-only IBM Microdrive that is locked to read-only or inaccessible to all users except admin and the system??? Somewhat as Linux has most of its stuff locked to root (equiv of admin in Windows), the stuff is inviisble to users or normal sort, and has scripts to fix some security violates (like invalid file perms known to open holes, ala Mandrake's msec checker, which will restore secure settings for system files all by itself-- running as a root process that is scheduled with cron or atd or both) and notify the admin in email internal to the box when users try to violate system integrity??? How about a Server OS version of Windows on a workstation, as far as system integrity and security goes, and a user-frienly front-end??? That seems to be in essence what most of us want, other than less intrusive ads and marketing and more functionality at lower and higher levels.
Some of the folks that wrote TweakUI versions over the years thought so too (flexible config should be there in depth, they thought, so major Widnows devs WROTE TweakUI jsut to fill in holes they themselves wanted filled in on thier boxes), but were shot down by marketting at MS. Essentially, MS digressed from a world where NT was server, 95 was workstation\end node box, to a plethora of specialized server packs. BUT, server was never high-mdeia internal to the server for direct access, except for Media Server packs.
What I would like is a Windows that does NOT have to be reloaded so DANG often, and copies of William R. Stanek's Microsoft Windows Command Line (for 2000 and XP adn some server admin also) available to all advanced users who want to do batch or scripted administrative things in an advanced manner-- wait a sec, its $29.95 and is ISBN 0-7356-2038-5 (Publisher: Microsoft Press). NEAT book, and you can do all sorts of things as admin in XP. NOW, if MS would doc this in detail themselves in ACCESSIBLE and plain-english-searchable-by-function-desired KBs other than deep in the MSDN help pages, that would be a real nice thing.... BUT NOBODY has come up with an index that is totally plain english searchable, except Google. Microsoft, get soem Google appliances and USE them to bot yourselves, PLEASE.
THEN, let the appliances do the searching. I hate remembering kbd for keyboard, etc, and other non-intuitive keywords based on DOS keywords, get a CONTENT indexer that auto-updates FREQUENTLY, and with IN-HOUSE security but accessible as a live index that is read-only to outsiders and focus it on ALL OF Microsoft.com. Give us a master index, PLEASE, to Microsoft.com, based on plain English, not endless subsites and subareas, with cross-links that are broken way too often as the end page's URL may morph due to a typo as it is stored-- and that might not be found for weeks.... NEXT, standardize all of microsoft.com on one .asp varaint, settle on .asp, aspx, OR .mspx and dang it, update all the browsers you dev to sync on using that one active server page var while browsing Microsoft.com. While you are at it, make your active data components unable to go wild, PLEASE! THEN DOCUMENT the access rules allowed and set them in stone-- and DON'T VIOLATE THEM YOURSELVES!
Of course if they did that, the next Windows version would be out in 2009 or 2010, as some of the rules still need to be written and agreed upon across 6 dev divisions, but if they did that I would be willing to wait for that version. And include in it an administrator's workstation version that is hypersecure about allowing other than the boxes' owners to access the box and alter it at all. Then License OpenOffice and provide it free with Windows, and provide Mozilla as a browser option..... (THIS last will never happen, methinks, but one can HOPE, right???)
-minimal services started by default
-not hitting f6 t install raid drivers or adding them to windows installation