Building a More Intelligent Windows

re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

Mobile — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:48:20 GMT

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Frogz — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:42:39 GMT

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re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

tbcpp — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:32:19 GMT

All this sounds great! As long as it works. But what about customization? For instance, what if all the spiffy networking stuff is monitoring my network traffic and optimizing accordingly. So let's say I have a bittorrent seeding several 600MB files of open source software. 23 hours of the day I want it to run full blast since I'm watching a movie, at work, or sleeping. However, 1-2 hours of the day I'm playing an online game. At that point I'd like windows to be able to throttle back the torrent to basically nothing, or better yet, give priority to the game. XP doesn't do that, and I'm not convinced vista will either.

Second guessing the user is fine as long as you allow the user to override it. If I have a system that is being used for a file server, I want 100% of my extra ram being used as a file cache, not for loading the applications I use for 1-2% of the day.

This is the biggest issue I have with Windows, and Mac OSX, is that you can't customize it enough. The Unix/Linux world has some things right (and no OSX doesn't count here, because they only are based on Unix, I'm talking full X11), 100% customization.

So give us security, and customization, and I'll be happy. All the other features are nice, but they don't allow power users the power to be users. Instead it makes them feel like their being used by the computer instead of using it.

re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

Michael_Moor — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:25:22 GMT

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re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

UbiquitousGeek — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:32:04 GMT

Paul is right, I don't want my computer to think for me. I just want it to do what I ask, not try to figure it out all of the time. It's like I used to tell my mother growing up, "I don't read minds, if you want something done, ask me." Did this all start with the animated paper clip in Office? You can't tell me that this approach doesn't tax Vista's system resources. S-I-M-P-L-I-C-I-T-Y Can't you guys figure this out? They say Windows is bloated, but I say it's flat out obese. About the quadriplegic... Are you sure that's what he said or is that the way Vista's speech recognition interpreted it? "Windows Vista was going to dramatically improvement his life..." Let me guess, you wrote this blog using it, as well. Still can't wait to get that Mac, eh?

re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

Randy Scholes — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:15:49 GMT

Sakara

the latest one was RC2.. But since the beta testing is done, there isn't really a need for microsoft to release these builds to the public.

re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

Randy Scholes — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:13:37 GMT

Gil Bates you don't need to go to school to learn how to use bcdedit.. Since using bcdedit /? is very very helpful and everything is written out in plan english that anyone can understand..

the boot.ini isn't as good as the boot manager simply because there is alot of tools that come with windows vista to get your system booted, for such things as that reboot loop which alot of people had problems with when they had nvidia drivers installed then upgraded to xp sp1.. Now with the new boot manager and the winRE it is now alot easier to fix them boot problems...

An you don't need the task manager to disable alot of things now.. Just go into msconfig and click on the tools tab, there you got alot of options to enable or disable things such as the UAC..

An superfetch is kick ass.. Just click on the windows orb and type in the program you want to run and it'll show up in the start menu.. Which i find is alot easier then going through each the menus to find what your looking for or even going through the control panel...

So without superfetch it'll be slow as hell..

An for gaming.. Every new OS that comes out is always slow for gaming and as time goes on and new updates that come out and people buying and upgrading there computer systems, gaming and the performance will get alot better..

re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

sakara — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:04:56 GMT

Hi everyone... i know that this post is not the appropriate one for my question but... i've signed for customer preview program for the beta2 version of windows vista, i've downloaded it, burned and i'm enjoing with... but i've a problem now i've been away from the net for long time and the link to download and try the rc1 version is invalid now... how can i download it? no p2p...

Tanx

Sakara

re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

Gil Bates — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:57:05 GMT

"We expect machines to help us by doing more things automatically, and more of the basics as we want them to happen, without asking."

Which is why I won't be using Vista immediately: Lack of any "universal" support for such basic items as a flatbed scanner; slower gaming (aka, the ability to correctly interpret when/if maximum performance is desired), a bcdedit utility you need to go to school to use (what, boot.ini wasn't arcane enough for you?), the overwhelming desire to expel the "trusted installer" and take control of everything--using task manager to disable things (like superfetch)...um, did I say I liked Vista? It's so cute.

re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

Randy Scholes — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:17:17 GMT

paul i don't see that happening anytime soon, unless you've program that kinda OS yourself.. Other then that we are way way off from that becoming real..

re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

paul — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:04:19 GMT

I don't like for my PC to get ahead of me, because inspiration and imagination are not his strong points. Everybody hates the way some programs jump-up at you just to let you know their there, I want to decide what programs run in process, RAM is a precious commodity and I want the maximum to be available for the tasks I'm about to preform and only I know what's coming next and sometimes I surprise myself.

re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

Randy Scholes — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:23:29 GMT

The MAZZTer

Sure there's the "Easybcd" and there's also "Vistaboot Pro".

At work we're not allowed to use 3rd party software..

"You can use the command line bcdedit.exe tool which can be found on the Vista DVD" <--- bcdedit is already installed with the OS, you just need to run cmd as admin and just type in bcdedit /? to find out all of the settings that you can use.

I was talking about the command prompt within winRE (Windows Recovery Environment).

re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

mrmckeb — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:45:39 GMT

I would love to see a PC 2.0 standard - where Microsoft set all the rules and the OEMs followed (and gave input).

If only OEMs listened to you guys we'd be so far ahead of our current situation...

re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

The MAZZTer — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:26:35 GMT

Snake: You can use the command line bcdedit.exe tool which can be found on the Vista DVD (I copied it to my HD).

However I prefer the very nice third party tool EasyBCD (see my link).

re: Building a More Intelligent Windows

Randy Scholes — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:44:45 GMT

i got a question about the winRE (Windows Recovery Environment).. I'm in training right now for doing windows vista tech support.. An one of the things we have gone over just the other day was about the bcdedit and bootrec /rebuildbcd

An i've noticed something that should have been added into this... It should also have picked up other versions of windows that was installed on a dual boot... Where it does not do this, so i've tried to manually edited the bcd to add back in windows xp into the boot manager and it failed to do so....

All of this was done with RC2 build 5744.. Noone else in my training class could get it to work... not even using bootsect /nt60 all or bootsect /nt50 all..

So maybe this is something you guys could take a look at...

oh btw.. We don't have the RTM builds at work to see if this was fixed in the final release or not..

other then that i agree with everything else in this artical..