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Originally posted by incoserv
I'm not being snarky here. I am an IT professional. I dealt with all kinds of MS issues for a long time. My solution - the best I've found yet - is here:
www.linuxmint.com...
I walked away from Micro$oft several years ago and have not looked back.
Originally posted by winofiend
And now I'm on windows 8. surprisingly I like to better than 7. That's like saying the cookie monster suddenly likes lasagne and calls himself garfield.
Originally posted by winofiend
Originally posted by VoidHawk
Originally posted by incoserv
I'm not being snarky here. I am an IT professional. I dealt with all kinds of MS issues for a long time. My solution - the best I've found yet - is here:
www.linuxmint.com...
I walked away from Micro$oft several years ago and have not looked back.
Every so often I download and install one of the linux flavours, a few days ago I downloaded mint. Very nice! best I've seen so far. My problem is I've so many little programs I've created for myself and I'd be lost without them. I'm realy into vb6, do you know if there's anything simmilar for linux? Most of my time at my pc is spent hooking into windows and generaly messing about, I love it, one HUGE puzzle, this is the only reason I havent swithched to mint.
For anyone not messing with the OS I'd agree with incoserv, go get a copy of mint.
OMG a fellow vb6 maniac. Ugh I still have it all but I've had to get with the program.. vb.net
Oh for the slight learning curve, it is far better at getting things done. Pinvoke helps with api calls, converting old methods.
Surely you could install vb6 in Wine? I cannot see why not, and then your programs would run almost the same?
Never thought about it, wine can almost run anything I've thrown at it however, with the exception of getting media player classic to play mkv files. ha.
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Visual Basic 6 Enterprise Edition - Service Pack 5
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The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.
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What works
Almost Everything
What does not
Didn't let me add the ADO Data Control 6.0 and the DataGrid Control 6.0
claims "Not enough Memory"
Also claims that when trying to compile.
Runtime Compiling works
if you've already got Mint somewhere, why not try it? Be interested to see if your existing applications work without having to do much to get them to.
Originally posted by VoidHawk
Originally posted by winofiend
And now I'm on windows 8. surprisingly I like to better than 7. That's like saying the cookie monster suddenly likes lasagne and calls himself garfield.
A friend just BEGGED me to remove win 8 from her new laptop. I asked why? She said try it for a day or two. Had the laptop at home for about 15 mins before I started an install of win 7 Had to remove SEVEN!! partitions before it would let me install another OS, something to do with the boot sector!
For some its probably a nice OS but I absolutely loathed it. It was the hotspots that did it for me, got really pee'd of with things magicaly firing up on their own. Can probably be turned of somewhere no doubt. Then there's the NO START BUTTON, and then I learn that you can have one if you buy it!!!
A quick look about on the "interwebs" and I see MANY people dont like it.
So how are you getting on with it? Why do you like it?
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by CthulhuMythos
Hey OP.. It sounds like you have limited resources there both in time and IT techie experience so I might suggest one other thing then, since Combofix appears to have failed ya. Do you have a tech school or community college around?
Originally posted by winofiend
And now I'm on windows 8. surprisingly I like to better than 7. That's like saying the cookie monster suddenly likes lasagne and calls himself garfield.
In Windows XP, click on Start and then click Run.
In the text box, type the following:
msconfig
Tap or click on the OK button, or press Enter.
Note: Do not make changes in System Configuration other than those outlined here to avoid causing serious system issues. This utility controls a number of startup activities other than those involved with Safe Mode.
Click or tap on the Boot tab located at the top of the System Configuration window.
In Windows XP, this tab is labeled BOOT.INI
Check the checkbox the left of Safe boot (/SAFEBOOT in Windows XP).
The radio buttons under the Safe boot options start the various other modes of Safe Mode:
-Minimal: Starts the standard Safe Mode.
-Alternate shell: Starts Safe Mode with Command Prompt.
-Network: Starts Safe Mode with Networking.
Click or tap on OK.
You will then be prompted to either Restart, which will restart your computer immediately, or Exit without restart, which will close the window and allow you to continue to use your computer, in which case you'll need to restart manually.
After restarting, Windows will automatically boot to Safe Mode.
Important: Windows will continue to start in Safe Mode automatically until System Configuration is configured to again boot normally, which we'll do over the next several steps.
If you'd prefer to continue to start Windows in Safe Mode automatically each time you reboot, for example if you're troubleshooting a particularly nasty piece of malware, you can stop here.
When your work in Safe Mode is complete, again use msconfig to set the boot up option back to normal
Originally posted by EnochRoot
Dual boot Windows & a Linux distro (K/X/Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or the Mint derivation thereof IMO) for the best of both worlds.
After I accidentally wiped out Vista (a blessing in disguise) I turned solely to Ubuntu for the last 6 months of my degree course without any major issues. I reinstalled Windows because I missed Call of Duty 4.
All my "real world" stuff goes on in the Linux OS & my Windows is pretty much a big video game machine.
I understand that there may be stuff that simply has to be done from Windows.
Originally posted by winofiend
Originally posted by incoserv
IT professional that can't operate within a M$ environment.
I don't see much work there.
I do web design, so most of my work is on my own. And I didn't say can't operate in an M$ environment. I choose not to do most of my work there.
Yeah, M$ is still around, and I have to deal with it to some degree, but only when I have to.
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
reply to post by CthulhuMythos
Ok , CthulhuMythos im going to try to work through this with you today and see if we can find a way to solve some of the problems you are having
You problems are;
1 - Failed .net updates.
2 - Messed up GFX drivers.
3 - you want to remove the Nvidia Explorer Icon.
4 - Cant boot to safe mode.
The .net updates problem can sometimes be fixed easily enough on XP and other times it can be really stubborn. I can remember at least 2 times in the past where no matter what we tried we could not get get them to install correctly.
First off it is totally safe to remove all of the Nvidia drivers as Windows will revert to a backup default VGA driver in the absence of anything else. This is the driver that is used when you first install windows.
There is also a way to force XP to boot into safe mode using msconfig
heres some details :
In Windows XP, click on Start and then click Run.
In the text box, type the following:
msconfig
Tap or click on the OK button, or press Enter.
Note: Do not make changes in System Configuration other than those outlined here to avoid causing serious system issues. This utility controls a number of startup activities other than those involved with Safe Mode.
Click or tap on the Boot tab located at the top of the System Configuration window.
In Windows XP, this tab is labeled BOOT.INI
Check the checkbox the left of Safe boot (/SAFEBOOT in Windows XP).
The radio buttons under the Safe boot options start the various other modes of Safe Mode:
-Minimal: Starts the standard Safe Mode.
-Alternate shell: Starts Safe Mode with Command Prompt.
-Network: Starts Safe Mode with Networking.
Click or tap on OK.
You will then be prompted to either Restart, which will restart your computer immediately, or Exit without restart, which will close the window and allow you to continue to use your computer, in which case you'll need to restart manually.
After restarting, Windows will automatically boot to Safe Mode.
Important: Windows will continue to start in Safe Mode automatically until System Configuration is configured to again boot normally, which we'll do over the next several steps.
If you'd prefer to continue to start Windows in Safe Mode automatically each time you reboot, for example if you're troubleshooting a particularly nasty piece of malware, you can stop here.
When your work in Safe Mode is complete, again use msconfig to set the boot up option back to normal
Have a go at this and see if you can get into safe mode ok