At the risk of sounding elitist, Windows Vista was the straw that broke it for me and sent me to Mac. I know that Mac has the reputation of being the computer for people who are too stupid to use Windows, but I've been using computers since 1969. Windows 2000 was the last stable version of Windows I used, and it is still the default OS at our college because Windows has gotten worse ever since.
I have a Dell sitting, unused, in my home office. I tried using it for about a month, and got long delays with "Program Not Responding" to the point of driving me to drink. It was a top end Dell several years ago, and couldn't get out of its own way under Windows Vista. I'll never touch Windows again. On May 14, 2012, at 7:48 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >> This computer I use for email & goofing off on the web is stuck in the >> Microsoft Update KB2686509 trap. Not really a big problem, more of a >> stupid annoyance. > > In case anyone actually gives a shit, I finally managed to fix it. > > It was a problem with a bunch of invalid registry entries for keyboard > mappings left over from when I upgraded to XP from Windoze98. I had to go in > and do a manual regedit to get rid of the invalid keys. > > This system has been through 3 motherboards, two hard-drives and at least a > half dozen CD/DVD drives since I originally built it as a Windoze95 system > back in 1997. Sort of the computer equivalent of repairing a car by > repeatedly jacking up the radio antenna & running a new body up under it. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
