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Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock:
I don't think so.
You don't think at all, fucktard.
Anyway, as mentioned above the point of this thread is not to argue but to catalogue windows' many flaws.
Well how about this for a start:
yesterday, one of my flatmates used my laptop without my consent or knowledge.
I had finished using linux at about 3 o' clock, and it was sitting on my bed. When i went back at 7 pm to use it again, it was warm (some bugger had just pushed the power button (which puts it to sleep) instead of switching it off) and not only that, it had been booted into windows. It had been used for 5 minutes from 5:37 to 5:42.
On the windows system (it's WinME) i have installed there is only one user, called Windows, and up till last night, i had not set a password (being the trusting soul i am), but i reckoned, oh i had better set the password up now, since some dumbass is trying to use my computer, so i set it, and lo and behold, i get a screen (similar to the X login screen) asking for my password when i switch it on now *but* i can click "cancel" instead and login as nobody!
Of course you know how on windows, once you log in, you can have access to all the system files and so on? so all you need do is press "cancel" and you immediately get the authority to wipe out the entire system? useless.
All that login screen does is act as a 3 second confusion until the intruder thinks of clicking "cancel"!
Try to go into control panel and open the "Users" control panel and, woops! it brings up the "Internet Options" panel instead! ho can this be? my installation of windows must be FUCKED (oh surely not!) how could an OS possibly allow this to happen to itself?!? try opening the "Internet Options" panel, and you get... "Internet Options" so how do i get to the "Users" panel?
I tried searching the registry, but windows users are deliberately kept in the dark about how to edit their *own* registry, so now all i need is the right info to put into a dos box (which i should be able to find in the registry) in order to open up the "Users" control panel. i don't know and don't care how to do this. it is not worth the excessive ag that it has involved.
I did open up a dos box and half heartedly give it a go, but after linux, who can be arsed?
note to gooseberry clock, let's not have any of your smartarse solutions to this problem please, i know you will say something like "are you sure you are clicking the right icon in the control panel?" so before you start, shut up. thankyou.
[ March 18, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]