I want a computer I can USE !!!!

[Guest thanatoid]

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in

 

news:AtFxddetGH8LFwE4@soft255.demon.co.uk:

 

 

> In message ,

 

> thanatoid writes:

 

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>>have to do with some programs I installed. If I find a

 

>>program that doesn't run under Win98SELite, I find an

 

>>alternative.

 

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> Do you always succeed though?

 

 

 

I can't remember /not/ succeeding, let's put it this way.

 

Very new hardware with only XP + drivers is the exception, of

 

course, as mentioned in the OP.

 

 

 

 

 

 

>>Few have figured out that you don't need ANY MS software

 

>>except the OS, if that's what you're stuck with. I read

 

>>somewhere there is still code from the 80's in Vista. There

 

>>may well be.

 

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> That's not necessarily a bad thing! It's probably the code

 

> that works most reliably and economically.

 

 

 

VERY theoretically, yes, but probably not when it's part of an

 

OS that's supposed to run machines built in 2010.

 

 

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What IS this crap above?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is

 

time to pause and reflect."

 

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