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Windows XP lets you do tons, way more than 99.99% of people know how to do.
Gee. "Bloatware."
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Add lots of power-user features, and it's bloatware, while at the same time people complain it doesn't let you do anything.
It's called whining.
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Why add a feature only useful to 1 in every 10,000 people? Surely not proper business form.
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Originally posted by obiwan18
No. I believe it's called 'proper programming.'
Why add a feature only useful to 1 in every 10,000 people? Surely not proper business form.
Because it's a necessity when the 1/10,000 is a sysadmin for the company?
Why add airbags if they only go off 1 out of every 50,000 car trips?
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I'm sure more than 1 in 10,000 people can actually use an airbag when it deploys.
Windows on the other hand...
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And I'm sure 1/10,000 users can use the poweruser features if they ever need to, too.
Most people don't need them, sysadmins do need them (most of the poweruser features were cut out of the "Home" edition for this reason, and they're in "Professional").
The features exist because they can be done, and they are useful. Most people don't use them because they either don't know they exist, or they don't care enough.
If MS didn't cater to the powerusers and such, developers would use Windows less. If developers use Windows less, they make less Windows programs. You can see where this is going.
Power user features in professional edition == good.
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A real answer. Obviously we can't let the unwashed use their computers properly.
Microsoft caters to the elite.
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Besides, it's damn fun to theme Windows yourself, alter the max # of connections, prevent applications from stealing window focus, enable X-Mouse styles so when you have the mouse over a window, it's automatically active, clear document history on exit, alter Thumbnail image quality, add a "Open Command Line Window Here" extension to the Explorer right-click, hide/show certain harddrives, alter special folders like "My Music" etc, change the AutoPlay settings, add/remove things from the control panel, do performance logging, access analyzed crash information, add the extra "Debug" button to crash dialogs which opens up the current program states in the Visual Studio Debugger, construct new security policies, partition and reformat drives, etc.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Originally posted by Asher
Besides, it's damn fun to theme Windows yourself, alter the max # of connections, prevent applications from stealing window focus, enable X-Mouse styles so when you have the mouse over a window, it's automatically active, clear document history on exit, alter Thumbnail image quality, add a "Open Command Line Window Here" extension to the Explorer right-click, hide/show certain harddrives, alter special folders like "My Music" etc, change the AutoPlay settings, add/remove things from the control panel, do performance logging, access analyzed crash information, add the extra "Debug" button to crash dialogs which opens up the current program states in the Visual Studio Debugger, construct new security policies, partition and reformat drives, etc.
Teach me how to do these things.
BTW, does anybody know if theres a program that automatically bluescreens your computer? Cause I wanna see what Windows XP bluescreen looks like.
There's also a bunch of other PowerToys (free) you may like (graphing calculator, multiple desktop switcher thing so you can have 4 running at once and just flip between them, alt-tab replacement so it shows screenshots of the windows as you scroll through running apps, etc)
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I can't believe you think Windows Media is better than Quicktime. Oh god. Windows Media is absolute rubbish. I've used QT on the PC and had no problems, so I've no idea what you're talking about.
And why bother using an elegant and restrained interface when you can use something that looks like an explosion at a crayon factory?
Originally posted by Asher
Because it's a necessity when the 1/10,000 is a sysadmin for the company?
Hm, what features are those?
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