On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 06:35:48PM +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I'm just installing Win7 to a machine that already had WinXp working > sort-of-fine-ish. One of the early screens said the process would involve > rebooting itself several times and i should ignore it and let it get on with > it. > > > Then it gave me a few choices which i had to click on. I think i had to fill > in something too. (ie so i couldn't just ignore it). When it rebooted the > cd/dvd stayed in the drive. Should i press "Any" key to get back to the > installer or not. I chose to do so. Opps, wrong. Stupid user aren't i? I > should have known that it kept the Cd/Dvd in the drive in order to not use > it. Ooops, now it has told me to let it reboot again and ignore it. Next > screen needs me to fill in something. I begin to see a pattern forming here. > It asks for a user-name and decides i probably want to call the machine the > same thing. The next key seemed a bit sticky. Suddenly i am passed the > passwords screen without having set a password. No "Back" button. > > > It's taken half an hour which is not bad. It's about the same as Ubuntu on > the same machine. > > > First thing to do is to hunt down and change the password, or even delete the > non-Admin local user. 2nd is to make the machine part of the domain so all > the normal desktop users can use the logins stored on the MS Exchange Server. > The installer did just ask if the machine is part of a company network but > i'm not sure why because i have to hunt down all that set-up myself. It's > just put me on a new workgroup called "WORKGROUP" because they have to shout. > > > > When i get to type in a domain it's already guessed i must want the domain to > have the same name as my laptop. Guess i should go around and change all the > other machines to that instead of using the existing one. > > > If i want a different domain name i have to guess it or already know it. > There is no browsing to search for it. i can't be nearly right and let it > give me the rest. I have to be spot on. It asks for a user&pass for the > domain and then gives a pop-up with a warning triangle to tell me i guessed > right. It asks if i want to use the right guess or try again. Now it asks > if i want to add a domain user to the local machine. 'Obviously' i made a > mistake so i cancel and find the mistake i made was clicking the button > "Network ID" instead of the button "Change". Now it does guess the correct > domain. Was that because i typed it in the other box or did it really find > out? Still no browse button so if the guess was wrong i would have to know. > Oh, the "Ok" button is greyed out. So although the text besides the "Ok" > button said i could change the domain this way it doesn't use that way to > confirm. Going back to the "Network ID" button that > looked dodgy before i have to type the user&pass and domain name twice in 2 > different boxes and domain can only be in capital letters despite the domain > name appearing everywhere else in a mix of upper and lower-case. If i do add > a "domain user" at this point then allegedly they have full access to all the > files, folders and programs anywhere on the network. I guess this is the new > improved security. Now i am back at the "System Properties" box and "Apply" > is greyed out so is it going to forget what i filled in like it would for > changing the Virtual Memory? > > > Now starts my endless cycle of updates&reboots. Oh, and i have to install > tons of programs rather than being given nice safe 3rd party ones that i > could use straight-away or swap out for my preferred ones. These > updates&reboots don't make any effort to update drivers, codecs, libraries or > other programs. It's just about the core OS. Later i will go to MS.com and > find several critical security updates that weren't included in the > auto-updates > > > When setting the Virtual Memory it told me there were 2 other hard-drives in > this laptop. Of course using a separate physical hard-drive might be quite a > boost to performance if Virtual Memory ever gets used and reduces wear&tear. > Saves the read/write head bouncing between so many different areas of the > hard-drive. Just in time i remember it's talking about separate partitions > on the same physical hard-drive. They just call them hard-drives because > they think users are too dumb to understand the difference and need to be > saved from all this complexity. > > > > I get really hacked off when people tell me this is easier than installing > any Gnu&Linux distro. It's as though they had never actually tried either to > compare&contrast.
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