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Reply #26 August 23, 2014 11:05:30 AM
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^^^^What he said.

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Reply #27 August 23, 2014 11:52:58 AM
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7) wine integration into the system: https://www.winehq.org ( yes the windows emulator schould also be integrated to win7 with a patch ( really necessary) !!!)

Why would you want to run a Windows emulator when you have the real thing?

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Reply #28 August 23, 2014 1:46:31 PM
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 hi,

  ah , yes i did forget dosbox integration as 9. point.  

Why? Test old/early 32 bit applications and some xp apps  on windows 7 and on slitaz with wine. If they run on wine they run normally more stable and faster. For these apps you would not need a VM normally .

And windows 64 bit does nearly break these apps runtime processes and you have to run most of them with administrator rights why ? that is the question here.   I need it especially for editing simple pdfs. ( on linux there program works and on windows it crashes often even if its a windows program.) .Photo Line a graphic editor  is really fast on wine, but so slow on windows.

 Also why doesn`t my norton  commander work well on windows 7 ? i did search for reasons but didn`t find one. 

i do find it frustrating that approx. only + 50 mb of installation disk cache could ensure backward compatibility. Microsoft does like to force the users to buy new programs, even if there is no reason. I hope that win9 would add a compatibility layer for 32 and 16 bit programs. They don`t even think that a system more compatible to older software could increase the sales of the Os in this case win9. No they try to invent new GUI what is a good thing, but don`t respect the fact that users like to run older software too. Its natural that they can`t support every old program , but they don`t  even try to make old simple apps runable without support. The win 7 xp 95 etc combatibility layer is only a fake for some registry matters and some what os am i using calls from these appplications. DAMN

 regards bluedxca93

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Reply #29 August 23, 2014 3:30:58 PM
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Quoting bluedxca93,
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Also why doesn`t my norton commander work well on windows 7 ?

Norton Commander? NC's been "dead" for years......

I believe you mean Windows Commander - which by the way works just fine in any Windows version.

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Reply #30 August 23, 2014 9:01:40 PM
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MOAR TILES

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Reply #31 August 24, 2014 6:12:43 AM
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Quoting Snowman,
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Norton Commander? NC's been "dead" for years......

Not really its linux clone midnight commender is still alive on linux . Looks very much like nc5.exe......

 

oh i forgot  a gui  without back , forward and min max close title bar buttons would be great too [to increase usability )= . This amazing and great  idea was already implemented in win 8 somewhere )= ]  .

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Reply #32 August 25, 2014 8:13:21 AM
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A destop tha can easily be morphed into a win 7 formant.  Hate, hate, button being moved, changed, dialog boxes changing, and menus revamped.  OH, did I mention I hate relearning the basic use of the desktop cause MS shuffles all the elements around?

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Reply #33 August 25, 2014 8:48:43 AM
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will you guys bring back desktopX? saw it mentioned above..

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Reply #34 August 29, 2014 5:51:32 PM
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will you guys bring back desktopX? saw it mentioned above..

I'd say probably not.

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Reply #35 August 29, 2014 7:42:47 PM
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Quoting kona0197,
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Why would you want to run a Windows emulator when you have the real thing?

 

Correct me if I'm wrong please, but haven't you been a proponent of all things Linux and (as far as phones go) droid over windows whenever you get the chance?  I would think 'emulating windows' would be exactly up your alley no? 

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Reply #36 August 29, 2014 8:40:29 PM
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Quoting the_Monk,
reply 35

Quoting kona0197,
reply 27

Why would you want to run a Windows emulator when you have the real thing?



 

Correct me if I'm wrong please, but haven't you been a proponent of all things Linux and (as far as phones go) droid over windows whenever you get the chance?  I would think 'emulating windows' would be exactly up your alley no? 

 

That's probably only the stance taken on dates that are a prime number....at other times it'll be 'something else' ....

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Reply #37 August 29, 2014 8:43:08 PM
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Dual booting windows is usually better for performance than running a virtual machine or emulation program...since the windows is typically for games, performance kind of matters....

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Reply #38 August 30, 2014 12:10:47 AM
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Quoting the_Monk,
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Correct me if I'm wrong please, but haven't you been a proponent of all things Linux and (as far as phones go) droid over windows whenever you get the chance? I would think 'emulating windows' would be exactly up your alley no?

Sure, I like to root for the little guy. I root for Linux and Android when I can, but here's something you probably did not know. I could never use Linux as my main OS, and in all of the time I have been a member here I have used Windows.

I have my reasons why I could never use Linux everyday, wrote a blog article about it. I just think MicroSoft has gotten a bit to big and taken Windows in a direction not many people like.

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Reply #39 August 30, 2014 12:53:55 AM
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Windows 7 2.0

but likely they will make a harder to use not as controllable OS with stuff that was free that we must now pay for.

And I didn't know SD could redo windows 8 to look and be like windows 7! So I could press the Microsoft button and be sent to the good old desk top again vs the tiles when playing galciv3???!!! Someone tell me more about this?!???!?

 

DARCA

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Reply #40 August 30, 2014 1:52:17 AM
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Quoting DARCA1213,
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And I didn't know SD could redo windows 8 to look and be like windows 7! So I could press the Microsoft button and be sent to the good old desk top again vs the tiles when playing galciv3???!!! Someone tell me more about this?!???!?

Darca.... you're posting from Stardock's GalCiv II website forum.... whereas others [like me] are posting from Stardock's WinCUSTOMIZE website forum - they're interlinked [and with others too].

Post OS2, Stardock turned its attention to MS Windows [last millennium] and has been closely connected with MS ever since - designing ways to Improve the Windows Experience [GUI].

Pop over and have a look ...

www.wincustomize.com

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Reply #41 August 30, 2014 2:00:53 AM
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Quoting DARCA1213,
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And I didn't know SD could redo windows 8 to look and be like windows 7

Better

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Reply #42 August 30, 2014 2:14:43 AM
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Quoting Seleuceia,
reply 37

Dual booting windows is usually better for performance than running a virtual machine or emulation program...since the windows is typically for games, performance kind of matters....

Thats right when you use windows as main system. If you use only few windows programs (like me), then its better to normally use linux and wine and a seperate win7 installation on disk.

Yeah i hope that win 9 would be runnable , fast and stable on my 3ghz dual core 3gb ram ( enough for 32 and early 64 bit programs).And i do hope that it could be compatible to win9k . Even if there are many people asking why.

And you can win 3.11 make look like w9k b.t.w ...  So you see  it was always possible to mod systems, and it is often wanted to rechange the OS look to the look of its newer  version or the previous system. The older look is often more popular, but after a while that  newer look is as nice as the  old one. But i have to admit that win8 is sometimes a huge design failure and it seems that some critical faults will be fixed in win9.

regards bluedxca93

 

 

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Reply #43 August 30, 2014 2:34:03 AM
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I hope windows 9 fix the limitations of windows 7.like transparency and etc..

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Reply #44 August 30, 2014 2:38:08 AM
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Wow idfk. Ima learn more about this.

thks for the link jafo I can now fight the uniformity and ignorance they are trying to sell. But windows 8-9 is still way better than anything apple will ever make. Though now I can say bye bye to alot of crap on windows.

 

DARCA

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Reply #45 August 30, 2014 8:40:19 AM
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Hi,

Apple has done some faults that adnroid likes also to do.  Apple costs more than windows. I don' t like apple, cause their intel based machines are not fully compatible with their OS' es and have sometimes huge modifications on a hardware level.

And you can`t install MACOSX on a computer/laptop that isn`t produced by apple. Its illegal and technically impossible with full speed.But  you can mod your linux to look exactly  like macintosh and all my firends couldn`t tell any difference, and i couldn`t find a way to tell them  hpew to find out that it was linux.

On windows you need every time  to have a real valid and buyed license and then find a way to activate your windows or windows program . Both things are not related often )=.

Perhaps windows 9 will redesign their application to have some more logical dialogs.

regards bluedxca93

 

 

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Reply #46 August 30, 2014 11:18:40 AM
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Quoting bluedxca93,
reply 45

But you can mod your linux to look exactly like macintosh and all my firends couldn`t tell any difference,

You can make Windows 'look like' Mac too .....been that way since Adam was a pup...

And while we're at it...you can even make a 16bit windows ie.... 3.11 look like its 32bit successors.....complete with 'matching' file managers, etc...

There's a lot more than just hermit crabs and sand in.....shells...

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Reply #47 August 30, 2014 2:50:16 PM
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Yeah i did use Calmira  on an old outdated pc.Thats for w3.11 to look like w9k.

I doubt that windows could look like mac. mac has inside the top panel a menu. On linux that is possible with 95% of all common linux application.

On winows every program has another gui. Windows can skin them, but to isolate the menubar and merging them into the panel is a competly different task then skinning the menubar. Its more complicated. On linux there are only two or three common GUI, so they don`t have the problems, windows has.

Perhaps win 9 would add such an amazing feature, but i doubt it. I do hope that they try to modificate and enhance the UI, but not without providing the older win xp- like  application style for each of their newest applications. 

A single application can have two or three GUI' s. Thats not uncommon. But microsoft seems to be trying to unifing the user interface and does in reality only produce new interfaces and new designs without the  support of older ones  ... I`m happy when they will be outdated .

regards bluedxca93

 

 

 

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Reply #48 August 30, 2014 7:19:18 PM
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Quoting bluedxca93,
reply 47

Yeah i did use Calmira on an old outdated pc.Thats for w3.11 to look like w9k.
I doubt that windows could look like mac. mac has inside the top panel a menu. On linux that is possible with 95% of all common linux application.

Yes, Calmira .....I've used that....along with just about every other shell idea there ever was....including Dos.

The first imitation of OSX was on Windows...BEFORE OSX was released....

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Reply #49 August 30, 2014 8:05:49 PM
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Quoting bluedxca93,
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I doubt that windows could look like mac. mac has inside the top panel a menu. On linux that is possible with 95% of all common linux application.

Yes, it can. It has been done. Many times. And you would never know the system was a Windows box.

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Reply #50 August 30, 2014 9:09:49 PM
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Quoting kona0197,
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Yes, it can. It has been done. Many times. And you would never know the system was a Windows box.

 

See kona, it's statements like that that get you into trouble.  You might not be able to discern the difference, but allow me to suggest that I (and many many others) would.

 

 

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