How can I program (in c++) a program to connect to the internet
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...download windows xp, uninstall windows vista or win 7 from the very same machine running my program, delete all remnants of such atrocities (except for my program and the downloaded win xp, obviously), install windows xp, then make copies of itself to distribute to email contacts, irc users, hide in memory and copy to removeable storage?
What's wrong with Windows 7?
If you turn off Aero, there's hardly any difference -- except the start menu is better.
If you turn off Aero, there's hardly any difference -- except the start menu is better.
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Very much agreed. I've been using Windows 7 for a while now (with Aero off) and haven't had any problems (except for having to tell DirectX not to use hardware acceleration for DirectDraw when I'm playing Baldur's Gate or Planescape: Torment, which surely doesn't matter to most (nearly all) users).
I hate the way they redesigned things. I'd like to be able to do things in the same way as before, if I wanted to a menu option to be in a different window than before, they should ask me, not shove it down my throat.
Redesign is change, change is inevitable and necessary for evolution. If they kept absolute backwards compatibility (including in the UI) it would be bloated, and a terrible programming philosophy.
| ...they should ask me, not shove it down my throat. |
And you should not shove Windows XP down the throats of happy Windows 7 users. ;)
(My attempts to resist the urge to post are failing).
-Albatross
This is why you should use a F/OSS OS; then you'd be able to put everything where you want.
I'm not talking about backwards compatability. I'm talking about user cognitive satisfaction at the expense of usability.
roflmao!!!!!!!!!!!!
edit: What is a F/OSS OS?
| This year we put a 12 on the box. |
edit: What is a F/OSS OS?
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Free open source OS
also the usability is not at all broken by this. You just need to put in the effort to learn the new UI.
also the usability is not at all broken by this. You just need to put in the effort to learn the new UI.
F/OSS means Free/Open-Source Software and OS means Operating System. I'm commenting on the way everything in desktop environments that work on F/OSS OSes is completely customizable. Admittedly that's a flawed argument since the OS being F/OSS is irrelevant to how customizable the DE is but there does seem to be a correlation.
| You just need to put in the effort to learn the new UI. |
... or find the button which says "Make everything perfect and restore to classic look and format hardrive and boot XP"
| Make everything perfect and restore to classic look |
I'm running windows 7 and my start bar looks like the one from 2000 :P
I'm running windows 7 and and my start bar doesnt exist, nor does the interface look anything like windows 7.
Control Panel -> Personalization
Scroll down to the bottom:
Click "Windows Classic"
then mess with whatever else you want
Scroll down to the bottom:
Click "Windows Classic"
then mess with whatever else you want
great. its still not the same though. the tabs at the top of internet explorer are more reminiscent of windows 3.1 than xp. I'm switching back. Oh wait I can't. I can only change to windows vista. great.
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