OpenEuphoria

Re: InternetReadFile crashing

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Dec 22, 2005
• 580 views

Greg Haberek wrote:
> 
> > Can I reverse the question and ask why one would pay money to change
> > from Win98 to XP or similar?
> 
> Windows XP is much more secure than Windows 98. In fact, any NT-based
> Windows version is more secure than any Windows 9x version. Windows 9x
> versions have no built-in measures for segregating users' data from
> each other, nor do they have any real means of keeping [an unwanted]
> someone out of the machine altogether. If you do have a "login" screen
> in Windows 9x, you can just hit Cancel to go into the default user
> environment. I like XP because I have my system entirely locked down.
> My personal files are encrype, and you *must* log in to use anything,
> even in Safe Mode.
> 
> Was it worth over $150? Probably not. Do I stand by it? Definitely.
> 
> ~Greg
> 
> 

Hi there Greg,


My biggest complain with WinXP is that internet sites seem to have too
much control over your computer, even after stopping and disabling
many of the so called 'services'.

Another problem i noticed is that if you have a file type open
with a given program name like "myprog.exe" and then later you
want to change it to another "myprog.exe" that resides in a 
different directory, if you go through the 'open with' file dialog
Win XP tells you that it worked, when all along it keeps the
old directory name in the registry...which of course means it's
still using the same old program instead of the new one with the
same name.  The only workaround i found so far was to edit the
registry and enter the new dir name, but maybe eliminating the
file extention from the list (in Windows Explorer) and then starting
over might work too.



Take care,
Al

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