PJL
December 6th 03, 03:35 PM
Bl***y right! Yesterday 'again' I
found that something that worked last week doesn't now
because xp has decided I don't have the right kind of
account. Which meant 1.5 hours of IT guy trying to find
out what was wrong and eventually creating a new account,
and a further hour of me re-customising autocad toolbars
which had reset. But most of the problems I've had have
been caused by the user account not letting me do things,
which is why they've given me an administrator account
now. My point is that changing to win98 from 95 was
simple, the differences improved it. XP just changed
things so that we had to get lots of new stuff because the
old no longer worked, (and try explaining that to the tax
payers!) which means not only trying to learn XP (without
any help) but also all the new stuff too! Change for the
sake of change is not always a good thing
>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings --
>
> Sounds to me more like a case of steeper-than-
expected learning
>curve.
>
>Bruce Chambers
>
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>
>"PJ Lightning" > wrote in
message
...
>> Is it just me???
>> Does anyone else find xp to be really really irritating?
>> I am tired of pop up boxes appearing from the corner of
my
>> screen at odd moments, Tired of xp constantly trying to
>> automate things when I put in a CD (which often
interfers
>> with the programme I actually want to use the cd with)
but
>> most of all I am totally sick of things not working
>> because they were installed by someone else (even tho I
am
>> down as an administrator), and by the time the IT guys
>> have rejigged my user account, no matter how hard they
try
>> to make sure they've copied everything over, I always
lose
>> some customized settings on my programmes and it wastes
so
>> much time resetting. There's a difference between
>> security and paranoia and most of the stuff built into
xp
>> for security definitely falls onto the paranoia side of
>> the line. If my computer is off line for some reason it
>> stupid that I can't work at another because I don't have
>> an account on it; it's a waste of time all round to have
>> to get someone from IT to set one up, not all companies
>> need that level of security. Is it possible to switch it
>> off?
>> Sorry, don't mean to rant but I have lost 2.5 hours
today
>> because of xp's little foibles
>>
>
>
>.
>
found that something that worked last week doesn't now
because xp has decided I don't have the right kind of
account. Which meant 1.5 hours of IT guy trying to find
out what was wrong and eventually creating a new account,
and a further hour of me re-customising autocad toolbars
which had reset. But most of the problems I've had have
been caused by the user account not letting me do things,
which is why they've given me an administrator account
now. My point is that changing to win98 from 95 was
simple, the differences improved it. XP just changed
things so that we had to get lots of new stuff because the
old no longer worked, (and try explaining that to the tax
payers!) which means not only trying to learn XP (without
any help) but also all the new stuff too! Change for the
sake of change is not always a good thing
>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings --
>
> Sounds to me more like a case of steeper-than-
expected learning
>curve.
>
>Bruce Chambers
>
>--
>Help us help you:
>http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever
count on
>having both at once. -- RAH
>
>
>"PJ Lightning" > wrote in
message
...
>> Is it just me???
>> Does anyone else find xp to be really really irritating?
>> I am tired of pop up boxes appearing from the corner of
my
>> screen at odd moments, Tired of xp constantly trying to
>> automate things when I put in a CD (which often
interfers
>> with the programme I actually want to use the cd with)
but
>> most of all I am totally sick of things not working
>> because they were installed by someone else (even tho I
am
>> down as an administrator), and by the time the IT guys
>> have rejigged my user account, no matter how hard they
try
>> to make sure they've copied everything over, I always
lose
>> some customized settings on my programmes and it wastes
so
>> much time resetting. There's a difference between
>> security and paranoia and most of the stuff built into
xp
>> for security definitely falls onto the paranoia side of
>> the line. If my computer is off line for some reason it
>> stupid that I can't work at another because I don't have
>> an account on it; it's a waste of time all round to have
>> to get someone from IT to set one up, not all companies
>> need that level of security. Is it possible to switch it
>> off?
>> Sorry, don't mean to rant but I have lost 2.5 hours
today
>> because of xp's little foibles
>>
>
>
>.
>