Journal molnarcs's Journal: I installed Windows
Next: I wanted to log out (while desperately searching the control panel - or whatever it is called - for an Administrative account) but I couldn't find a log out button anywhere! I had to call for help! From my computer-agnostic, windows using roommate! It was sooo lame (and funny). It turned out that the little helpful popup describing the AllProgs item in the menu was covering the log off button! Thanks Bill.
I created two users. One:ME, two: whomever wants to use my puter while I'm not here. I called this hypothetical user "Somebody". Now, luckily, somebody was also an Administrator (remember, I succesfully locked out my user account). Kudos for making everyone Admin by default! Somebody managed to get my default user back to its Adminsitrator status, and I soon discovered that that's it: one is either an administrator or not. Am I right? I mean, XP won't allow to create an account called the Administrator, but doesn't provide one either. Or does it? Help me! This is soo very confusing!
This is just a very small sample (let's say: 30 minutes) of what I've been through in the past 24 hours. And I assure you, the rest was just as horrible/hillarious as the 30 minutes described above. On the other hand, now that I have configured, Windows XP seems to be a nice OS. Firewall is nice (I'm on SP2). Not that usually bloated (as in: doing everything from virus to intrusion detection, and doing all very badly) 3d party firewall that even keryo managed to become. It does one thing: it filters packets. Thanks GOD!
Except for some codec problems, most things work just fine. Oh yes, and Media Player 10. NEVER EVER INSTALL MEDIA PLAYER 10 IF YOU WANT TO WATCH MOVIES. Or anything for that matter. I added a directory full of movies (short and long ones). Took 10 minutes till it managed to load (for winamp 2.91 it takes the same amount of time
But as I said, rest is OK. It is even reasonably fast (and it isn't the memory hog I expected it to be). I'm not saying it is faster than my FreeBSD/KDE3.3 desktop. Well, they are comparable (though I have more eyecandies enabled - Baghira, JUK, transparent stuff in KDE). KDE remains a bit more responsive when copying files, though the difference here is again negligible.
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