WinUAE exposing how crappy Windows is

[halvliter'n]

So, if you use updated firewall and ativirus programs it's not enough? I almost always use the admin account, I can not be bothered to switch back and forth all the time.

And by the way, the Windows file structure and user friendliness is grape in comparison with the Amiga.

[halvliter'n]

Switch back and forth to do what? Seriously, what everyday tasks do people do that requires it?

I do not really remember. But every time I try to update, install or uninstall drivers and programs, I get told that i must have administrative rights, and it's virtually every day.
But others who use my computer get not use the admin account of course, if I am not inattentive then.

[halvliter'n]

@AmigaHeretic
"It's really convenient when a friend plugs in his USB thumb drive to quickly grab a file and you have to reconfigure your whole OS."

Yes it is, so therefore I say, let me fix it.

@Karlos
"You do it "virtually every day" and yet you don't remember what it is?"

Perhaps the wrong choice of words, the point was that i almost always use the admin account so I avoid the hassle.

@the leander
"Within a limited user account:

Right click and select "Run as Admin".

Type in your admin password and you're sorted. This goes for drivers, program installation and PITA games whose anti cheating (punkbuster etc) kit requires admin rights to work properly."
 
Too much unnecessary stress.



Regardless, the best computer is Amiga.

[halvliter'n]

Typing out your waste of a reply was more work than doing the admin PW thing..


Regardless, the best computer WAS Amiga.                      

Fixed that for you.

I still think it's the best computer. The Amiga is about the user should have control on the computer, not the opposite.

[halvliter'n]

Reducing your risk to malware and every once in a while having to type in an admin password counts as stress these days?

Well, if it happens then I allow my antivirus and malware programs to fix it.

[halvliter'n]

LOL. Was it my big mouth and A.org hackers or the bad weather here which made us lose the connection with the ISP in over two hours.

[halvliter'n]

You are making a blatant mistake in assuming they are even aware of the intrusion. New threats invariably appear before updates to combat said threats.

As the_leander says, if you are running as admin, you are taking an unnecessary risk. If you are admin, then almost every process you create is running as admin. That includes any malware you pick up.

The amiga is a single user platform, but the majority of other systems employ a multiuser model for a damned good reason.

OK, I will not be lazy.

[halvliter'n]

Are you using a Windows machine?  Could be your registry. :hammer:

Yes, wondows is a bundle of shit, and this computer is hacked now.:lol:

[halvliter'n]

I am still using the same system disk on the Amiga that I used in 1996. I've had some disk to disk copy then when I bought myself new hard drives or had craches,
but that was always a 1:1 copy. Disksalv, quarterback, rdb-recovery, snoopdos and Readme-files is good to have.
I have updated it from 3.0, 3.1, 3.5, 3.9 and gone back some times and have probably tested all tools, patches and apps that is possible to install on this system, well until 2005, it has not been so much activity after this on that computer.
 
edit: Forgot to say that i have a Directorys dated 1993 of tools on the disk that works well too. It is a kind of tempdir from my A500, but many of the programs work directly from the drawers.
 
So it's possible, and I do not think this is possible with Windows.

[halvliter'n]

I said nothing about backups, why worry about backups? Well, it's necessary with Winshit.

[halvliter'n]

@the_leander
You did not understand what I wrote. I just copyed (moved) the system to a new drive and this is not backuping, it's upgrading since the system continued to evolve and I do not fell back on the previous.

[halvliter'n]

Most winodows machines are full of crap and will be re installed since the backup is too old.

[halvliter'n]

I understand almost none of all the mess and without any reasonable file name in the f..... WINDOWS directory.

[halvliter'n]

Prove it.

Prove the opposite.

[halvliter'n]

Alot of windows software can work by copying folders around. I have software running on windows 7 that I haven't installed since I ran MSDOS (circa 1994).
 
Microsoft even promote it, it's called xcopy deployment.
 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302347.aspx
 
For the apps that don't work like that you can often get portable versions
 
http://portableapps.com/
 
Let's not forget that their are apps on the Amiga that require installation, including copying files all over your boot partition. So it's not an operating system, it's down to the applications. Software these days is mainstream business, the bigger the business the lower the quality ( and that holds for more than just software ).
 
I don't think we can get the whole world to rely on software that was written 17 years ago though. A friend of mine is having trouble getting his iphone to sync now he's on ios4, itunes is a particularly hopeless piece of software. I doubt he's going to have much more luck trying to sync to an A500 though.

LOL. I think he'll have to try the 500, it works always best.
Yes there is a lot of software that does not touch the system in any way in windows.
I wrote it was a temp dir from the old Amiga500. The point was that i never needed to reformat and reinstall the entire system and applications. There are certain files and folders it's wise to have an extra copy of on the Amiga of course.