Dear Windows XP, I hate you

Pengwuino

Why is it that whenever I change one small piece of hardware in any computer I touch, windows decides "UP YOURS *******, I'M NEVER BOOTING UP AGAIN"!?!??!

I've been told sometimes computers have issues recognizing and working with new hardware. This is RIDICULOUS. And of course, the people whos computers I fix never keep their install discs or really know much about how their own computer is organized, so I can't just be like "well, restore!" or "F this, reformat, re-install". It's always wasting 3 days of my life hoping to get the computer to come back to live like it was before the new hardware.

I hate you bill gates.

End rant

DISCUSS

mege

Maybe the hardware is at fault, not Windows?

Evo

PEBKAC?

Discuss!!

Sowwy. Just kidding. I run windows and live in absolute fear of installing anything.

micromass

Aaaaaah, the joys of computers... We can send people to the moon, but we can't build a computer that doesn't crash occasionally.

Chi Meson

... blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah my iMac blah blah blah blah ...

fans and haters can add their own words, to taste.

But I must add: Windows Vista has made converts of both my mother AND my Father-in-law (converts to Mac, that is).

rhody

Pengy,

I know you don't want to hear this but, I have two words for you, well, one word and one number actually, are you ready, gak... "Windows 7" This is their best OS by far, and you still get to hate Bill Gates, but a lot less, I promise, I have been running it for two years and I am happy. Ok, now, continue to DISCUSS !

Rhody...

Ivan Seeking

Sure, if it was useful somewhere besides a classroom or working in a vacuum, I'd be interested.

Ivan Seeking

Yes, time after time people have slammed my beloved Dell support... but then I never spend three days trying to fix my computer when I add hardware. If I have a problem, which isn't too often, I just call tech support, they logon to my computer, and in no time at all the problem is solved.

russ_watters

Just upgrade to Vista - that'll cure your hatred of xp...

Pythagorean

you're two version behind; Windows 7 works great for me.

Proton Soup

i think it was XP that screwed me over when i tried to do a dual boot system on it. so that computer just got paved over with Ubuntu. Ubuntu had it's own headaches, but they have a really good forum community, and for the most part the interface is intuitive because it's very windowsy.

Pengwuino

Naa, it's windows.

RAWR!!!!!!!!!

It's not my computer, it's my mothers. This would require coughing up as much money to buy windows 7 as it did to buy the new hardware I installed!

Really, XP is fantastic and does what we all want, it's just hardware. My moms computer is a 5 year old acer and the motherboard went out. This required getting a new mobo, CPU, and RAM. Since it's her business computer, I can't just format it because she has all sorts of programs I'd have to hope to god she still has the install discs for.

All the worst problems about computers happen when they're getting up there in age with owners who..... are also either getting up there in age or are technologically stupid. And it's not even because old things are bad, it's that you just can't find suitable parts readily and people don't keep track of their programs.

OHHH and the most pain in the *** part is when people use poorly designed programs that store their saved files within the program files directory or in some weird location. RAWR.

Dembadon

I was going to suggest Millenium Edition (Me).

Greg Bernhardt

I must be the only person in the world who has never had a significant complaint with Windows. I run Win7 now with no problems. I think it's really good. Maybe i'm just lucky.

Studiot

That's a clever trick given the original premise of an unbootable pc, how does it work?

Nor would I recommend rushing to ditch older pcs. A whole new industry has been spawned since the EU directive in 2007 to remove lead from solder.

(Far too) many computers about 2 years old are failing simply because the replacement solder used becomes brittle and fails under prolonged thermal stress.
And guess what? Laptops get hot inside, particularly the GPU since it often has to function without cooling.

Pengwuino

So I'm guessing the lead provides some strength in the longterm?

I personally hate how people toss computers so quickly. None of the computers in my home are less than 5 years old and I know people who replace their computers every year because they want the fastest stuff going.

Borg

I had a Windows 7 laptop for about a month last year. At first I hated having to relearn where everything had been moved to. However, it was fast and didn't have problems with programs that would hang the entire system. I eventually began to like it very much but, I ended up sending it back because of other issues. I'll be getting a new one again soon and I'm looking forward to having Windows 7 on it.