Hi Ray,> You're not the first person to have problems with that utility. Although
> I didn't have it myself Norton was responsible for wrecking my Registry
> a while back and I haven't been near it since.
Hmm. Not heard of that. I've been using Norton Utilities now for more years than I care to count, and I trust them more than Windows!
> I quite like the look of XP and have no
> intention of reverting to the Win98 look (yuck!)
Yuck to XP's normal look from me! Just shows you how tastes differ. No politics now! <G>
> The problems I had with Me was that when a program crashed it would
> sometimes bring the OS down with it. Although programs still hang in XP
> they do not affect the OS which remains stable. I hope that clears up
> why I prefer XP to anything before it.
I've had more crashes taking down XP than just crashing not taking down XP. Using relatively new or experimental vide drivers will do it quite easily! <G>.
I cannot compare it to WinME as I couldn't get anything at all working reliable on that b****** of an O/S!
> I think I'll not bother to tell our System Admin of your problems with
> Windows2000. I hope it improves for you
It still crashes on closing or restarting. I can't figure out why. The information it provides is useless to the extreme. However, all that means is that I have to press and hold the on/off button instead.
My main annoyance is how long it takes Windows Explorer in Win2000 to obtain directory listings of nearby PCs on the local workgroup. All my Win98SE PCs see each other really quickly, no messing. The Win2000 and WinXP ones take 20-40 seconds to find another PC, and that's EVERY single time I want to access one, say in Explorer. It's even the same between the Win2K and WinXP PC. I've even added TCP/IP and Netbeui protocols to the LAN as well as my old reliable IPX/SPX, but it makes no difference. Both NT-based operating systems are really just the clunkiest, slowest, most annoying systems I have ever come across -- maybe if your office uses Win2000 Pro on a LAN you have someone there who can tell me how to make it work smoothly and quickly, like Win98? Please? I just cannot believe it is *supposed* to be as bad as this? Maybe office types don't know any better?
If you can ask for me, thanks.
> otherwise you'll have no time to
> work on more important things like the next version of FSUIPC being able
> to assign reverse thrust to an axis please?
Reverse thrust on the throttle axis has been in FSUIPC for 18 months and is used by many folks. I thought you tried it and didn't like it?
> Now for something completely different... I'm now 20 in the queue to
> receive a Aerosoft 747 unit. It will probably ship next week. Just
> thought you'd like to know.
Yes, I asked Andrew about all that, and mentioned you. He said he was aiming to clear the list by Xmas, but couldn't get the parts! Maybe he promoted you knowing you knew me? (head grows big! <G>).
> I've also received my ticket for the FS Show in Brum.
Ditto. Bob Sidwick asked me to do a presentation, but I don't volunteer for that sort of thing -- I had enough when was a manager in ICL!
Regards,
Pete
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