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How to make your Windows machine more stable and secure
Calum:
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Oh my. What about the horrors such as GLIBC integrated into the linux operating system? It's so tightly integrated that half of the world breaks if you try to remove it! And yet, it's called a library, so it's supposed to be modular? What's this then?
While I admit that it's a slightly extreme to compare the components IE uses to the C library, the point remains. It's trivial to get rid of it, however if there are things that depend on it, those things will break. This is why microsoft doesn't want to remove IE, it's a library that third party developers are depending on.
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this is a little misleading though and i'll say why:
with windows, you want to remove something, and if you do, and other things depend on it, you're stuffed. that's it, totally buggered. put that thing back, or you can't use the other stuff.
theoretically, even with something like libc, you *can* remove it if you do it sensibly on an open source/gnu system. this is because you can compile everything that is written against this library statically (or is it link it statically? i am no genius when it comes to this...) and then remove the library. This is actually done as part of the install process for the likes of "linux from scratch" (an extreme method of installing and maintaining linux that a few brave souls go for), they compile everything from source, statically, to make a bare bones system, then use that system to recompile another entire system so they can get rid of the static one (i think)
anyway, the point is that if you did this, everything would be huge and take up tons of memory, which is why it doesn't get done and why (generally) there are a lot more dependency issues under, say, linux than windows, because a lot of windows programs bring their own libraries with them, for instance, and are independent of the system's, or each other's libraries.
muzzy:
"put it back or you cant use other stuff" applies to every system regarding dependencies. You can't really remove libc either. If it's statically linked, it's not removed. It's still there, and used.
MrX:
this post has more than 765 views. what the internet world wants is how to make their shitty windowze computer more stable and secure. because a:
it is not stable
b:
it is incredibly insecure.
there. :mad:
Mr X :beos: :beos:
muzzy:
a) Windows 9x is not stable. Windows NT is stable.
b) Windows 9x is not secure. Windows NT is secure.
MrX:
i beg to differ. with winxp (based on NT)
within five minutes, i got 3 worms just from being on some warez sites. what has this world gotten too? good thing im not using that computer.
Mr X
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