windows vista

[nigel cross]

Help,
Strange problem with daughters laptop
On her user sites cannot open anything it states file association missing.
But on my logon all ok.
Cannot find the file association in control panel.
I have done a system restore still the same.
Thanks

 

[Jukie]

Re-create your daughter's account?

 

[nigel cross]

For those interested, it would seem that registry corruption on single users in Vista is common.
Found a site with a fast fix , and all back to normal now

 

[Satch]

Upgrade to Windows 7.

Mrs S. has a laptop that was always having some form of wobble and sometimes fell over when running Vista but now on W.7 and very stable.

 

[jepho]

Upgrade to Windows 7.

Or really upgrade... to a Mac

 

[Colin_b]

Or really upgrade... to a Mac

W7 upgrade is just a tiny bit cheaper.

Ubuntu is free

 

[Piff]

Number 2 son has a dell with win 7.
For the second time now it has failed to start and can't repair itself following a windows update!
1st time, retailer made a change to the bios - something (windows update?) had changed the hard disk type.
This time, retailer is sending a recovery disc!

 

[jepho]

W7 upgrade is just a tiny bit cheaper.

Ubuntu is free

I guess that Ubuntu is the best of the Linux distributions. I haven't used Linux since the last of the Red Hat distributions (9) in 2004. I can recall using SuSE 3.0 before that and I found that the messing around with XFree86, X windows, Motif, Gnome, KDE and the numerous window managers for Linux soon became tedious.

Funny that I now use Macs... based upon BSD *nix and complete with a BASH shell in the terminal. I guess the OS X GUI is more than enough for my needs now and I no longer consider myself a *nix user.

 

[Colin_b]

I guess that Ubuntu is the best of the Linux distributions. I haven't used Linux since the last of the Red Hat distributions (9) in 2004. I can recall using SuSE 3.0 before that and I found that the messing around with XFree86, X windows, Motif, Gnome, KDE and the numerous window managers for Linux soon became tedious.

Funny that I now use Macs... based upon BSD *nix and complete with a BASH shell in the terminal. I guess the OS X GUI is more than enough for my needs now and I no longer consider myself a *nix user.

Ubuntu is pretty good, easy to install and runs a treat on old hardware, its grown up a lot in the past few years.

Best of all its free, and well supported.

Macs are nice, but coming from Yorkshire, they will never have the attraction of being 'practically priced'

 

[jepho]

Macs are nice, but coming from Yorkshire, they will never have the attraction of being 'practically priced'

I guess total cost of ownership (TCO) ought to be a concern for the penny-wise. My view is that the cost of a tool is trivial, when compared with the income that is derived through its use. My son is now using the G4 PPC laptop which I had bought, including software, in March 2003. He has learned to run all manner of software including a 3D modelling tool, image editing and all of the usual office type software and I have got him learning a little Unix too. It runs every OS X point increase up to 10.5.8 after which the changeover to Intel processing power was initiated.

My TCO is the initial cost of the machine divided by the timespan. £2800 divided by 8 years works out to just under 96 pence per day. No viruses or malware and the machine travelled all around the world and earned its keep by way of completing work that netted me a reasonable wage. It is just a tool and my work could not be done without the tool.

Perhaps the math is different oop north.

Don't forget the Mac can now run every piece of software that Windows runs... in a VM Window and it can run Linux too ∴ I see this as no contest.

 

[ghouluk]

Don't forget the Mac can now run every piece of software that Windows runs... in a VM Window and it can run Linux too ∴ I see this as no contest.

all mac users (including me) do

 

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all mac users (including me) do

hear - hear

I've used Linux for a long while before [gradually] moving to Mac, but still have SuSE, Fedora and Ubuntu (and WinXP) in VMs on my MacBook Pro and Air laptops (okay, TBH only one VM on Air )

There's absolutely no question that Apple hardware is well engineered and OSX is reliable and secure, so for me it's a 'no brainer' when compared to anything Windows world has to offer. In fact I haven't considered Windows as a viable OS for almost a decade now... When I feel a bit nostalgic about my linux days, I just fire up Ubuntu in Virtual Box and play with it, cursing the [yet again] new interface ... ahhhh wonderful!

The fact that Mac is basically a *nix and I can sudo my way to [almost] every nook and cranny is a fantastic bonus on top of a brilliant hardware.