On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:44:52 +0000, St. wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
> news:47d6d1a5$1@news.povray.org...
>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:59:50 -0500, Warp wrote:
>>
>>>   Personally I don't see why anyone would want to "upgrade" right now.
>>
>> People are sheep.
> 
>  "Baaaa"  :)
> 
>    I've read a lot about Vista - I don't want it. XP is good. Nearly two
> years now, and no BlueScreens... :)

I've got it as a second boot option on my HP Pavilion.  My first 
experience with it was not good:  I wanted to use the firewire interface 
to pull some programs off of my DVR; had to install an XP driver for it 
and the OS only detected the port as being there half the times I tried.  
I finally got it working after a while.  I turned off UAC, installed VNC, 
disabled Aero, got everything working *perfectly* so I could take the 
machine (sans monitor and keyboard) back to where the TV is, plug it in, 
and access it remotely over the wireless network.

I then shut the machine down and powered it on one last time to make 
*sure* it would do exactly what I wanted.  It did.

So I disconnected it and took it to the back of the house and plugged it 
in.

And I couldn't get to it.  No way, no how.  So, frustrated, I grabbed a 
monitor to see what the dumb thing had done.  You know what?  It reverted 
EVERY SINGLE CHANGE to the user profile I had put in place.  UAC was 
enabled; Aero was enabled.  VNC wouldn't start; the firewall (which I had 
disabled) was active.  It was as if I had just completed the "first boot" 
setup.

If there's one thing that will piss me off about a piece of software more 
than anything, it's the arrogance of programmers who think they know 
better what I want than I do, and then implement something that *undoes* 
every customization I have done so it works the way *I* want it to.

Jim

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