Why do people use Windows? How do they live with themselves?
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Gee, I dunno.  I use windows for fenestration.  I like the sound of the birds chirping outside on a sunny morning.
517363
anytime ive had a situation like that i usually end up reinstalling windows.ive done this so many times its second nature to me,not sure if id recommend it for you if youve never done it before.
295948
They basic function of the windows operating system is just to provide you with a Graphical User Interface for operating your PC.  Which translates to a very user friendly way to work your pc.  Back in the day before windows you had only DOS and the easier way was using utils like HD manager, which just provided a graphical shortcut to your programs.
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The literal answer is that a "windowing" operating system was the term around at the time Microsoft developed the first version of windows. Deskview had long before had it's own windowing system and Unix had X. The Apple of course also had a well developed GUI at the time. Windows being a view to a application/stream of data. Deskview, Apple, IBM and all the other vendors that made multi-tasking OS's back then called these views windows. So Microsoft with typical origionality just called their OS Windows. \n\n\nMore realistically windows means look but don't touch. It has a we'll do it for you and we know better than you kind of attitude built throughout the OS.
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In order to make Windows more friendly and feature rich, M$\nmade some trade-offs which make Windows more susceptible to\nviruses.\n\nFor example, Linux/Unix/Solaris has a baked-in notion of\npermissions and ownerships.  If a regular user downloads a\nvirus in an email, it generally won't have the ability to\nover-write the file system or the boot block.  On a Windows\nsystem, it's common for the only user to simultaneously be\nthe "administrator", so everything is left wide open, all\nthe time.\n\nContributing to this are some "features" in the M$ software\nwhich all but *invite* virus writers.  Consider the notion \nof "Outlook" being configured, *by default*, to execute\nattachments when the user just reads the message (ie.\nwithout even explicitly selecting the attachment).  Or\nconsider the thought processes that went into the decision\nto allow an *image file* to invoke a process when it is\nviewed.  Sure, it permits some really cool tricks (like\nanimated sprites on a map), but OMG it means you can\nexecute a virus just by viewing an image!\n\nThere's no inherent reason that a Linux (or Solaris)\ndeveloper couldn't be that bone-headed, but fortuntely,\nthere are lots of people **looking at the source code**,\nso hopefully that kind of blunder would be caught.\n\nSo while the Unix OS's are not guaranteed to\nbe immune to viruses, they do tend to be much\nmore resistant (more security conscious applications)\nand the effects are significantly reduced (because\nthe effects are limited to a single user's\npermissions).
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Get a copy of whatever version of Windows you are using and reinstall it. Make sure you format the disk to get a clean installation. Don't join the domain though (you probably couldn't anyway). This will give you your control back with one drawback. You won't have access to any network printers or drives, you wont have access to company email, and you won't get access to the internet.\n\nYou can now use the task manager all you want.\n\nHowever, if you did that at my company, you will get fired, without question.
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linux lacks the basic third party support of windows and it isn't easy to use but it is free...\n\n\nwindows is a massive uncaring corporate piec of software crap with huge security issues and nothing is ever free with windows....i personally think mac is the way to go...
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its open my dear dude\n they want every people to work with them\njust like windows bill gates know most of them use pirated versions but he doesnt say anythin\nbecoz he wants more and more people 2 use it
647928
There are so many things we should be doing instead of sitting in front of a computer... I wonder why we love that so much. It's like we're truingto escape from what we are supposed to do.
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Well, there are a few things you need to ask yourself before you answer that question!  Are you good with computers?  Do you at least know DOS commmands, if not Linux commands?  Are you programmer or want to learn to be one?  Because if answer NO to most of the questions above you might want to go with Windows.  Because in order to really take advantage of everything Linux has to offer you need some familiarity with computers and some programers language.
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several tips:\n\n-don't load any programs at startup unless you really need them (that is freeing up memory for usefull processes)\n-disable any services that you don't need. You can research them on internet to find out what they do. Many of them are not usefull for a stand alone PC.\nthere is a good utility called autoruns at sysinternals.com\n-take out wallpapers, sound schemes, special effects.\n-defrag hard drive\n\nif you want to spend some money:\n\nmore memory\nfaster and more harddrives.\n\nAnything else would require practically a new PC.
952767
What? Someone still uses Windows 95???
652077
How did you do it?  How did you survive your technological infancy without destroying yourself?
21057
if you want to keep windows then you can't w/o loosing windows
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doing. my knowledge and skill really shot through the roof when my friends started asking me to help them with computer issues. i saw things that i never would have seen before that helped me, for example, i installed my first cd drive on my friend's computer, and what I learned then is still with me.\n\nif you don't have any friends, or your friends are better than you, the next best thing is to build your own computer from scratch. you are going to make mistakes, and you'll fry some parts, but you'll learn a lot. you probably won't be happy with the final product until the third time you've done it.
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That is the story of pretty much any product that goes out to the public.  Windows is an extremely usefull Operating System.  Sure you have others, but to most of the public they are not as friendly as the windows family has been.  Until someone comes out with a better and more usefull OS than what microsoft has come out with, microsoft will be the only one out there.  If a person designed an OS and wanted to deploy it to the public get a foothold in the OS market and stay there without getting bought up they would have to be private all the way.  That means all the marketing, development, and deployment of this new OS would all have to be funded privately which is a huge cost.  Those costs would be easily dealt with if they made their stock public and shared in the stock market.  At that point microsoft would then consume them like the eternal fire that it is.  This is how Microsoft has managed to maintain it's thrown over the past 10 years or so.  Buy the competition while it's young and use it's resources.  And if Microsoft is planning to buy Google, they probably can do it.  Just use Yahoo!  :)
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False.  WIndows is the most commonly used OS.