No animosity directed towards you personally SSDiv6...I just disagree with the bashing the often maligned XP operating system receives. Truth is the vast majority of businesses still operate on XP...disclaimer being the bulk of their work is for internal use. In this case familiarity does not breed contempt...it simply works.
The Vista OS was introduced to address those threats you cited earlier and was somewhat successful. Vista is a fine OS, but was ill received by the masses partly due simply because it was a change to what we were familiar with. The larger issue was the limited hardware built-in to the pc's sold to the masses which sadly continues to the present time...minimal memory installed is a sure fire way to cripple anything.
Win 7 is a wonderful OS, but in reality just Vista refined.
Win 8...oh boy. A corporate exercise to capitalize upon the growing mobile device trend. Problem here is it just does not translate well with the casual pc user. Sure, there are multiple workarounds to make it more user friendly, but many question why am I having to jump thru hoops. Expect another incarnation shortly.
Long story short...the simple act of using a pc on the internet these days is a war on your system. There are a good many folks out there trying to counteract the threats with varied success. I understand for the bulk of people out there one cannot simply throw up their hands in surrender...we just want to use our computers as intended. I classified those programs attempting to counteract threats earlier as bandaides...reality dictates that is exactly what they are. Yes, using them will somewhat extend the life of your operating system, but the fix is often just as intrusive as the threat. I personally resigned myself long ago to just wipe/re-install my OS when it all became unbearable.
03-23-2015, 10:43 AM
Re: Trouble surfing Class racer
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