me hate my computer
 

the thing is driving up the wall. i downloaded internet explorer 5.something for windows 95 (it said it was compatible) and now it freezes everytime i start it when the background pic loads (no icons appear):mad: ......do anybody know what to do? (other than tell me to get a new comp.:rolleyes: )
any help is great.

-murray

defrag your comp. and if that dont work youre gunna have to reboot it

Save everything you actually want, and reformat. You may have screwed up your registry when you installed IE5. One win95 you need to run c:\regback before you install a program that modifies your OS, as IE does.

Sorry dude.

IMO you shouldnt be running anything lower than win98 these days...if you reformat you might as well try winME...depending on your processor speed, maybe go with XP...compatibility is much higher...but itll lag the hell out of a slower processor...

You probably have to upgrade to 98 or 2000. IE might not be compatible with 95. DO NOT BUY WINDOWS ME it is the biggest pos OS i have seen in a long time. (we have it) Soon i will be on my own custom built comp with XP :D

Later,
Nick

....oh you must be one of those people who actually think they need to spend money on an operating system to have it on your computer...*grin*...ahh...poor poor soul :D....

and ME was more stable on my old machine than 98...i think every computer is different...

You probably will have to format, that's usually the easiest way to solve a problem with windows. And why not upgrade to win98 while you're at it, so long as you're comp can handle it. If you have 95 right now WinXP is probably going to be too much for your computer. WinME is crap, I haven't talked to any system builders or gamers that prefered it over 98 or 2000.

ME
 

Windows ME is the most stable OS that I have ever used. For a home PC, I don't think that you can beat the stability and ease of use. I definitely would not tell someone to not buy it without even knowing what they are using the computer for. I have used 95, 98, 2000, NT and they all cause problems eventually. Some are better than others.

I love this thread.

:)

Take care,
~Chris

Windows Me is fine for just normal computer stuff (word processing etc) But if you try to do any kind of multimedia (videos, music etc) and especially games it gets messed up really easy. Sucks at multi tasking too.

And JJ im not paying anything for XP...I have connections :D :D

I bet you do love this thread Mac boy! :p ;)

Later,
Nick

lol, my mistake :) ...but I used to play Quake II on ME..every Version of Windows seems to go for a sh!te after a while of being on your machine...even XP acted up on me a few months ago....i kicked my computer's @$$ and reformatted everything except my d: drive....

chris...MACs have an ugly interface...lol :eek::D....but it is oh so very true that their stability is far greater than that of the PC....also a helluva lot nicer to use for multimedia and 3d animation...wait...i thought i was burning MACs....doh...lol...i still hate that one button mouse!! :p

LMFAO!!!

XP is the way to go (I've had them all except 2000), but if you got it from a "friend" like me, don't run any updates!! :eek:
I finally had to reboot my computer the other day after running nonstop for 3 months and 17 days! :)

Do NOT load ME. Nasty nasty OS. When I worked for Gateway we had more problems out of ME than all other OS's combined. Go with win 98 or 98 SE. I prefer 98 SE and that's what I always use.

I too have XP from a "friend" but I havent had any problems with running the updates, I just don't report any glitches to microsoft.
There is a way to register XP as a second user too.:cool:
M.E. was flat-out JUNK !!!

Just because there is only one guy writing programs for Mac's and he can make them all work with each other is no reason to gloat. It's like owning a Skoda.;)

Then why does Bill Gates try so damn hard to copy it? I think it's the most beautiful interface there is. OS X especially. I also hate the one button mouse. That's why I have a 3 button cordless trackball. :)

Guys, I'm sorry you're have so much trouble, I just loved this thread because according to another self proclaimed know-it all, who doesn't, you are all lying. Windows is perfect and never has problems. LOL.

My desktop tonight:

Ok I've worked with every os out there really and pretty much had every os on my computer except 2000 but I used it at work and school.

First, how fast is your computer? If you can meet the requirements for XP I would say go for it. Also remember XP takes about 1GB to install so if you don't have a big hard drive I'd be cautious. If your running 95 right now I doubt your computer can handle XP. I would probably suggest Windows 98SE (Second Edition), but if your a hardcore gamer, then maybe go with ME. It's all personal opinion but I just suggest 98SE.

PKRWUD

We have a whole bunch of Macs at my new school. I can't wait to sit down and play around with them, I can go anytime, just have no clue how to use them. lol :D

§am.

The most common remark I hear from Windows users who sit down with a Mac for a few days is "That's how a computer should work." If you're a long time Windows user, it will seem strange. Everything is very common sense (the hard drive is called (ready for this?) the hard drive. No C drive, D drive, etc. You can, of course, rename everything so that it suits you, if you like. Everything has menus (with tons of options so that you can personalize it your way) on top of every window. They are always where you need them, including the desktop. Macs have never been case sensitive, or picky about extensions, but Windows finally caught on to the convenience that provides, so I'm sure you're used to it by now. There is a Systems Preferences window, which is similar to Control Panels, but every single app also has it's own preference panel under it's name when launched, so you never need to go looking for them. OS X also has a new feature called the Dock, which sits at the bottom (or either side, if you prefer) of your desktop, and holds app links to everything that's open, as well as anything you want to put there for easy access. In the desktop pic I attached in my second reply to this thread, you can see the dock at the bottom of the screen. An option in the Dock preferences that I like is to hide the Dock just below the screen, so that it's out of sight. Whenever you wish to access it, just move your pointer to the bottom of the screen, and it pops up for you. Every app also has a View menu (at the top of the screen) that gives you several more customizing options, including icon size, background color, etc. In that same pic I attached, you can see the graphic quality just in the icons, which I have intentionally set to 128 x 128 because I like the cool graphics big. You can even select your own images to be the background inside windows that you open, rather than being plain white. Best of all, you can't hurt a Mac. Anything you do can be undone, so don't be afraid to explore and try different things!

I find it refreshing when a lifetime Windows user sees the Mac as fun, rather than an enemy, based on negative propaganda they've heard from their die-hard Windows buddies, most of whom have never even turned a Mac on. You won't be disappointed.

Enjoy!

Take care,
~Chris

If you have a lot of stuff on the hard drive that you are having problems with, borrow a friends that has win 98 on it, and install it as the master, and yours as a slave, then you will boot up with his op system and be able to see everything on yours to save your stuff, then reformat your hard drive.

thanks for the info guys. the comp i have is a old one from 1997, but i might be getting a newer one soon. my comp has a 15gig hd and is no where near full. but i thinking of get my friend to hook my hd to his comp and erasing IE5 from hd and then checking over the hd and maybe putting 98 on my hd from his comp. but i will talk to you all later.

-murray

Whats funny Chris is I have a friend that was die hard Mac all the way through senior year of high school and now has given up on mac and gone PC. I dont remember exactly what happened but i can remember him being pretty pissed off at his Mac lol. Something about running a server I think but I am not sure.

Macs dont suck but i have just been around PC's all my life and never really had a problem with them :)

Later,
Nick

Here we go again. I like the OSX interface. But please dont compare your 2002 version of MAC OS to Windows 1995.


How fast is your computer? Ditch windows 95, your in the stone age. Seeing has you have 95, your computer is probably deathly slow. Look for a new system atleast 1ghz or better.

The slowest ones we sell are 1.7GHZ now and they start at $699.00.

Skyler

Windows 95??....shouldn't that be in a museum somewhere?

I just have one word to say *** AMIGA ***
I still miss it ...sniff sniff
It had an OS very similar to MAC but it had co-processors for graphics ... it handled graphics faster at 7 MHz than this pc i'm on right now at 500 MHz. ... thats right i said 7 MHz that wasn't a typo lol
Its still the backbone of a lot of digital special effects at the smaller cable tv stations.

Chris, I don't hate macs but I do find windows to make just as much sense as mac os x. It may be because I've been using it for so long. You're example about the hard drive being called a hard drive makes some sense, but what happens when you have multiple hard drives. I have 8 partitions of 20 gigs a piece on my computer, would they all be called hard drive? And how do you get access to the partitions in whatever dos based equivalent macs have?(I still love using dos). I'm sure i've probably shown how little I know about macs in my questions, but that's alright. Maybe if they someday catch up in the mhz race I'll give them a serious look.

my Mac has an 80 gig hd, and a 30 gig hd. The 30 has two partitions. I have Mac OS 9.2 running on one partition, ond Mac OS X 10.1 on the other. On the 80, i am running the newest version of OS X; 10.2, codenamed Jaguar. I named them Monster HD (80), Little mac 9 (OS 9 partition), and Little Mac X (OS X 10.1 partition). In the screenshot below, you can see all three as icons on the right side of the screen. That's how they are named and identified. All three run at the same time if I wish, with no noticible slow down. That way I can switch between software programs that are OS specific just like they were all running in the same OS. Very cool, IMO.

http://homepage.mac.com/pkrwud/.Pict...ee/desktop.jpg

DOS. LOL. I will never forget how scared I was the night before I took my DOS 6.22 final exam in my PC repair and networking class! I couldn't sleep! 6 months later after passing my A+ certification exam, I walked by the "DOS tables" in the classroom, and just started laughing at the new students that were freaking out. I wasn't laughing at them, so to speak, but at how they were acting exactly as I had been, and I had come so far since then that DOS seemed like "Pong" probably does to someone with Playstation.

Anyway, if it is a window into which you can type your code-specific commands that you enjoy, Mac has what's called "Terminal", which gives you root access into the Unix base of the OS. It doesn't do much for me, as I am much more into a GUI than typed commands, but I am told that Terminal is a true computer geeks best friend. Something about Unix being the "real schit" when it comes to programming and such.

:)

Take care,
~Chris

Just to let you know Joe and others, XP update has been cracked! So much for Microcrap!

mac's have a terminal in a unix based system. I'm probably familiar with it already then, as I would guess that the terminal window in linux is fairly similar. Maybe I'll have to look at one more in depth the next time I see one, last time I looked at one I saw it had a one button mouse and I ran the other way.

WOW....?????

I am so surprised to see everyone(almost) getting along about different OS's and computers. Damn this is nice.


LxMustangRacer,
Mac OSX's Terminal.app is very simular(sp?) to Linux. You would have no problem there at all. It's just the file structure is different.

CHARLIE!!!! Be good now! So far this is not only civil, but hopefully helpful! I know your love for the Mac vs PC fight, but PLEASE let this thread remain plesant. :)

Thanks bud.

Take care,
~Chris

:::::::: I be good now :::::::

Thank you.

:)

Take care,
~Chris

chris:

the majority of those preference options youre talking about work the exact same way with windows...and espeially if you get TweakXP you can play with even more stuff...:) MACs don't suck, neither do PCs....both are incredible little machines, but so is a toaster....circuitry is great :)

I know. I tried to list the things that would make for an easy transition. I own a PC, by the way, I just hate using it. :) The Mac OS is just more user friendly, that's all. It allows you to customize and personalize your machine so much more than Windows does, but that's not important to some people.

:)

Take care,
~Chris

yeah sky i wanna new comp bad but for now i can't afford one cause i'm looking at a new car and need my money for that right now. my comp wasn't bad for just check some sites out and running a few old games. yeah win95 is a old a crappy thing but its all i got right now. talk to you again later eh.

-murray