Anomaly
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The fact that this AMD processor thing is still an issue goes to show what a bunch of classless clowns MS are.
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It was a couple scripts I am using with Grease Monkey that are causing the problem. Once they are disabled the site works fine.
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Just as an example, this page renders instantly, and the subsequent pages as you scroll down, render just as quickly.
Nice cars. I clicked the link and the page appears instantly but the progress bar in the status bar and the throbber on the tool bar and the progress bar on my tabs all freeze for a min than more of the page appears as the page fully loads. There is definitely something not right. As I said Chrome works fine and Opera is not supported so it still uses the old Google images. Maybe it's one of my addons. I'm thinking maybe Ad Block plus. I will try and disable it and see what happens.
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I take it than that no one esle has noticed the new Google Images site performing poorly with Firefox? It hangs and runs slow on all my machines so I don't think it's something with my install of Firefox.
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Anybody else notice that Firefox doesn't work well at all with the new Google Images? I find it hanging and very slow. It's terrible. Works fine with Chrome. Opera doesn't use the new Google Images so no problem there either.
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I had the problem described on this forum here. Was advised by a microsoft helper to copy the exe file to C:, reboot in safe mode, and run the exe. It worked.
Been a year or two, though.So you used the exe not the ISO or the Windows Updates version? You simply downloaded the exe to your main drive booted into safe mode and ran the exe? Did you do any of the reg changes that were discussed in the thread you linked.
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I'm considering it for Windows 7. It integrates nicely with 7 and has some nice reviews.
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OK thanks for the answers.
cc1, yes that is one of the places. I've seen it on other sites to like this
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When I did this I downloaded an ISO burnt it to disk and Shut down my AV and any other unnecessary programs and than installed from the disk. Went well for me. I'm interested to know how many here did it this way and did anybody use Windows update instead and if so did you have any problem?
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Just found this on Macrium's site. Apparently, ReDeploy is a relatively new plugin product which easily allows you to migrate your backup image to new hardware. It does so by creating a different type of WindowsPE Rescue disk, which includes additional info and drivers. The price seems reasonable, but it only works with a commercial version of Reflect.
Yes I seen that to and it looks interesting. Moving from one machine to another is something that is made more difficult than it needs to be. I blame MS for that. Doing this on a MAC or Linux is a breeze
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In any event, I have a question about Macrium that is prompted by Tom AZ's post. If Macrium Reflect is used to create an image of one's computer, and if the hard drive on that pc has to be subsequently replaced, can that image be easily restored to the new drive on that same computer using Macrium's "standard" procedures? Or would the special tutorial mentioned in Anomaly's post need to be followed?
Yes that's what it's made for. To recover from total HDD failure. It will restore your image on to the new drive with no special tutorial needed. The "standard procedure" you refer to is all you would need.
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Opera seems pretty heavy on RAM usage to me (with an average of ~3 tabs open, it is usually around 130MB), but I don't consider it an issue. It's still my favorite browser by far.
It is heavy now. Never used to be. They all are going that way. Resource pigs are the norm now.
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One of my reasons for asking was that I just recently heard about Paragon's Adaptive Restore technology, which seems to address this very issue. However, after Dennis' experience with Paragon's imaging software a few years ago, I sort of lost confidence in their products. Sure wish Macrium could figure this one out and add it to their Reflect product.
Why don't you try out Paragon for your self? One persons problems may not be yours.
Did you read the Macrium tutorial it may be all you need.
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What Dennis pointed out is true since Windows has the hardware ID knowledge which is the same reason why it isn't wise to go about changing too many hardware components at the exact same time without rebooting several times, unless one likes calling Microsoft to get their Windows re-validated.
Which is why Macrium wrote up the tutorial. The tutorial seems long and complicated but thats only because they explain whats going on behind the scenes with Windows. Actually doing the image is very simple. Most of the tutorial is explaining why it's a problem with windows to move an install from one machine to another. Not an issue with Macs by the way. It' super easy to clone a install and move it to another machine and even run it off a external HDD if you want.
I have done a clone the way that tutorial explains it. My machine needed to go in for what I thought might be a mother board issue. I was concerned that when I got it back I would not be able to restore my Macrium image since the mother board would be different. I followed the instructions in the tutorial and made an image before sending the machine in and making the image was very simple. I only had to change a setting in Device Manager. Fortunately when my machine came back it didn't need a knew mother board so I never needed to restore with the tweaked image.
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Computer specific Tom.
Not true Dennis. You can restore from one computer to another with Macrim even if the hard ware is different.
Here is the tutorial on how to do it from Macrium http://www.macrium.com/blog/2008/07/15/HowToTransferWindowsXPToDifferentHardware.aspx
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I play games that are a few years old. Are you saying that I'm an idiot just because I play a game that's old? Please! I don't need any more nonsense.
I'm also not a jerk just because I play an older game every once in a while for nostalgia. For your last comment about illiteracy, would you say that people in third world countries that may know how to read and write but don't know how to use a computer are illiterate?I certainly won't stay in XP forever, and I can always install Windows 7 on my newer computer, but your comments about the stupidity of people that stay on XP just don't add up.
Do you think you could twist my words any more than you have? I made no comments about playing old games. Where is that coming from? I CLEARLY said I know people who spend hours playing moron games staring blankly at the screen. How you managed to twist that into saying your an idiot for playing old games I don't know.
We don't live in third world countries so the comparison is nonsensical. In developed countries being able to use a computer is becoming as important as reading and writing. You are definitely at a disadvantage if you cant' use a computer. It's a basic skill like reading, writing, and math. This is not debatable it's a fact. If you want to use third world countries as a benchmark for your knowledge level than knock your self out. You obviously have a bright future ahead of you with those kind of standards
It's becoming very clear this forum is filled with people that are stuck in XP land and are resistant to change and have a lot of excuses to justify it. This forum has some knowledgeable people and a good atmosphere in general but I couldn't recommend it as a place for people to come and learn the latest things. There are Windows 7 and even some Vista users here but there are far too may XP only users and they can't offer you any help on the latest. MS is going to be drastically reducing the time between releases for their OS's and you will be absolutely irrelevant if things here stay this way and it sounds like it will. I won't be making any more comments in any other threads about people who refuse to upgrade to XP (I might in this thread if I feel something is posted that needs to be responded to but it will end there for me since I have better things to do like keeping up to date). It's your problem not mine and it's like talking to a wall. MS will also eventually decide it's your problem to and kill XP not matter how many cry about it. Than you can play catch up and wonder how you fell so far behind he curve.
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No there won't be. MS is not stupid. XP is in extended support. That means "no more SPs".
I agree.
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Did any of you guys try it? Is it stable or not?
It's stable. You will have to do some about:config mods to get your extensions to work and even then some won't work but that's to be expected in a beta. The UI is changed. Tabs are on top and the menu bar is replaced with a button.You can easily change that with a couple mouse clicks though. No speed increase though.
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Thought maybe Aethec's thread would get some action. Good one.
I have been computering (izzat a word?) since before windows. Then win 3.0 or 3.1, don't remember, then win 95, win 98. Skipped win me, win vista, some of the more obscure others. Still have copies of most of those, plus OS2
. Now at win xp and holding...Interesting quote from Hazelnut's link: "..[Microsoft] acknowledged that 74% of business computers still run XP." XP is pretty good, now, and business guys who think about the bottom line want to stay with it, I guess.
No offense meant nor taken respecting users who always use the new and improved versions, but historically every new OS from microsoft has needed tuning. Not their fault, probably, with their market share, they're a big target. Still, its a pretty good "business model": release the software, get the consumer to pay for it and then also tune it up.
May I suggest a good "User Model": wait till its tuned up, then get it. Certainly there is some value to being adventurous, trying out new stuff, etc, and if you enjoy it, go for it. But I try to avoid letting anyone persuade me that I NEED to change or am technically retarded if I don't. I already know that.
I am not one of those people that has to have the newest and have it right now. Far from it. I always lag behind and wait for the bugs to be worked out. I'm still using Mac OS 10.5 Leopard I have not upgraded to 10.6 Snow leopard. I skipped Vista. The XP situation is a totally different thing. We are talking bout a 10 year old OS. That is insane. There is waiting for the bugs to be worked out and than there is just no excuse like with XP.
Windows 7 is very stable. The Windows 7 service pack 1 that is coming out doesn't have anything significant in it except it adds all the Windows updates that have been released since Windows 7 has been out. This is because the bugs where in Vista and fixed in 7. I waited a while after 7 was released and read the reports and there where very few complaints so I than updated since XP is simply way past it's prime. I have to say 7 is much better in every way to XP.
As for the businesses that are still on XP they are just as bad as anybody else with the heel dragging. Most of them force their employees to use IE so what does that tell you? It's just ignorance and laziness. I'm not saying update every single time but XP is a decade old and Windows 7 is not Vista and is a very nice OS.
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Anomaly, I am not sure what slows this computer down. I install, try out, and remove lots of stuff, that might be it. I usually use some virtualizer App like Powershadow or Timefreeze to avoid changes to the kernel or the registry...but sometimes not. Anyhow, it has indeed slowed up. This last slowdown started after waaay too much partitioning, that's probably be the cause.
That wouldn't help any that's for sure.
Redhawk, wish I had said that: "...I just don't see the point in switching over to Windows 7..." Win 7 offers nothing that I need. Some aspects are new and nifty, but I don't need them nor care about them. However, I will admit to being as lazy as a pig in a pie factory.
Need it? If you look at it that way you could say you don't need XP either or even 2000. You could get by on Windows 98 or even 95 or something like that. I know people that do and they say the same thing as you. They say XP doesn't have anything they need. I think you see where this is going. It's not need that drives improvement it's the desire to better your situation that does. Everybody is being held back by the people that refuse to better themselves. MS needs to fix this and the sooner the better.
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Did anybody dare try that FF4 beta I saw posted up on filehippo the other day? I sure didn't. But I'm surprised to see zero threads about it here. What gives? I figgered at least Dennis would Sandbox it & tell us how unstable it is, etc.
Go to portable apps.com and get the portable version to try out. No need to install.
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To the part highlighted in bold: That's true.
But then, you say that they are lazy.
Some people aren't switching because they don't want to. It's their decision of what they want to do with their computer. There's no need to say that people are lazy just because they aren't willing to switch. Computers aren't the life of everyone, and for most people, their money isn't focused on getting the latest operating systems or the most high end computers. It's focused on things going on in their life. I'm saying they are lazy. Thats the main reason they don't switch. The part of my quote you high lighted says that. They aren't switching and the reason they aren't is because they are lazy.
Anyway, you seem kind of mad at the people that are sticking with XP.
Annoyed that they look for any excuse to stagnate. I know many people still using XP. In fact still using IE 6. Money is not their problem. Having to use their brain is the problem. Can't be bothered to learn anything. Sit in front of the computer hours at a time blankly staring at the monitor playing moron games. Some of them have been using computers for a decade or more and don't know any more now than they knew 10 years ago. When they have a problem they come crying to me. When I try to show them how to fix what are very basic issues they can't be bothered to watch and learn. They just want you to fix it so they can go back to be total jerk offs and play their idiotic games. I'm sure everybody here knows some one like that. Well MS needs to cut this dead weight loose. I have started to. It's time these people realize computers are a major part of life and society now. I would say not being able to use a computer is almost as bad as being illiterate today and it will become even more important as time goes on.
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Not fifteen. Four.
I was referring to Login 123's post in which he said he would keep using XP for 15 years until it was unworkable but I won't argue.Lets say it's four years. The price of computers especially used ones is so cheap if you stick with XP it's because you choose to not because of money. In four years anybody not living in a third world country can save up to buy a computer so the not having money thing is BS. People aren't switching because their lazy. That includes IT departments that don't want the hassle of switching so don't because MS keeps XP around. This hurts all of us in the long run. How? Because MS has to allocate resources to maintaining XP. Resources that could be used to develop better software. Instead it's wasted on keeping XP alive. The end result is the people not willing to change drag every body down with them. MS just needs to get a spine and cut the XP crowd loose. What are the XP users going to do in protest stop using computers? Not likely. Change OS's and go to Linux or Mac? That's a joke. These people can't be bothered to learn Windows 7 there is no way they will put the effort into learning a whole new platform. No the likely out come is if MS kills XP these heel daggers on XP will upgrade and that's that. Then MS can concentrate on moving forward instead of accommodating fossils.
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Anomoly in the current financial climate where people have to make decisions daily on how to manage their dwindling finances, getting a windows 7 computer just doesn't figure in the options at all.
Accept that some folk are in dire financial circumstances and unemployment is rife. Don't confuse this with laziness.
Yeah that would account for not getting Windows 7 now. The problem is some of the people in this thread are insisting that they will stick with XP until it's discontinued. That's FIFTEEN years from now. So money is not the issue is it. Do you honestly expect me to believe they won't be able to scrape together a couple hundred dollars in fifteen years? It's a cop out and I think you know it. They don't want to admit they can't be bothered to learn a new OS and that's exactly what the reason is. Now days cost is not an issue for getting a computer. You can get a used one if your that hard up and it would be better than the relic your running XP on. No it's more than money keeping them with XP. MS messed up when they went so long between XP and Vista. They should not have waited that long. They have created a lot of mentally lazy people in the process. They should just kill XP off and put all their resources in making a better OS instead of waisting them on XP to accommodate people that can't be bothered to learn.
Been a year or two, though.
I'm also not a jerk just because I play an older game every once in a while for nostalgia. For your last comment about illiteracy, would you say that people in third world countries that may know how to read and write but don't know how to use a computer are illiterate?
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Upgrading XP to SP3
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No because this problem has been there since SP 3 was released and the fix is a bunch of jumping through hoops. They should have fixed this and released a SP3 with the fix. They know what the problem is obviously so why not fix it instead of making the user jump through hoops.
I don't claim to be a programmer. I don't need to be better than MS or anybody else to point out a flaw. The fix for this AMD processor flaw is lame. It's also not very well documented or reported. Non tech types will just see a SP3 update available and download it and install it and have a screwed machine. They will have this because of MS stupidity.