> In a message dated 7/24/2001 10:06:54 PM Central Daylight Time, > bint@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > myself when I decided to > > Fdisk, partition and format my hard drive and then set up a dual boot, so I > > have been installing 2 versions of > > windows along with all the other programs etc. that I have been installing > > one at a time and using them for > thank you for the support Howard.... myself,I am using a triboot.. > winme,win2k and now winxp rc1.... and with every system I made sure there > were no other porgrams runing except systray and expoler,except when > needed... for instance.. why do you need to be running an antivirus > constantly when you are not on lineand you have already determind the files > you downloaded and checked when unzipping them are clean?... or why is MStask > running set up to accomplish tasks every day, but most times you arent even > using the pc at the imes its scheduled and its powered of?... and if yu are > using the pc whem ms taks comes on at its scheduled time you immeadiatley > stop it 'cause you are busy doing something else and it is an > interference.... or cache and memory managers which have been written for the > intent and purpose of manageing data transfers of sreadhseets etc but you are > looking at jpgs, or reading pdf files or text files?.. no data management is > going on? what consumer user actually uses and needs any of those programs on > their pc in the first place?al of those prgrams have to be bought and paid > for.... All excellent observations/questions and should give everyone plenty of food for thought IMHO Chuck! Which reminds me of how I bought my first PC to work with, but have since turned it into a plaything instead of a tool to work with and I am the kid that can tear up a wrecking ball with a rubber hammer, so a toy doesn't stand a chance with me! ; ) > and if you compare the pc to fishing..... seems to me its about the > same game... lol..... more prgrams then the bigger the pc... as in fishing.. > more lures the better the fishing... and I do both... have 4 takcle boxes of > every bellesd lure made.. but aint caught no more fish than the rest of the > crowd for any given day... but boy does it sure look good when I open my > tackle boxes.. sure is impressive... Now Chuck, I can truly relate to this bit as I have done the exact same thing and had enough fishing rods, reels, poles, tackle, etc., for a small army to use and if I had spent the time using just one outfit and two or three plugs as I did changing from one rig to another, I would have been able to supply a fish market year round! ; ) > same with all the icons on the desktop > as a newbie stares in awe at the 150 icons on screen..... wow... sure is > impressive.. memory glut to slow down the pc.... Yup, I sure do love them purtty icons even though I have cut them down to only 20 since I have been cleaning up and will eventually get them down to about 3-5! ; ) > and Clarence we are both of > an age to know the good old days of the automobile.... what did we do to make > it better and faster?.. strip it down.. get rid of the junk.. and then we > sure could impress the heck out of the guys by how fast it was.... same > principle.... btw... still doing that.. got me a 1964 ford pickup and am back > at the old mans hot rod days.. same as am doing with my pc.. am overclocking > my p3 900 to 1.3 ghz and it is stable in all 3 operating systems..and I have > a Celeron 500 running at 713... but had to learn... need to clean it up for > it to work........ Chuck.... in OK Yup, had my beloved 40 Ford that would outrun any police car around, not that I was ever in trouble with the police! ; ) .......clarence....... www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field. To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi