I farkin' hate Windows XP

[elmo3]

what onthedownlow and macphanatic said.

Businesses should NOT run themselves with consumer grade gear, using a consumer mindset. You're in business to be in business, not to play with computers and operating systems on Microsoft's consumer schedule.

Microsoft is happy to license just about anything. If you're running your business on the practice of going out and getting whatever's on the shelf as you need it, you're not doing a good job of it. Find an IT partner who can help.

Your company needs a strategy. Just going out to Best Buy and buying another computer on an ad-hoc basis as needed is not a strategy. It's the result of an already failed business plan.

[OWC Jamie]

They've gone and moved (hidden) things in new places in Vista, too.
Frustrating when you know it's there, more frustrating when you've been there before and can't find it again.

Just renting different cars (with the controls in different places and different types of controls) can be frustrating.{the headlights shutting off differently based on key-in / key/out of the ignition on a Caravan, for example, is weird}

Or, interesting, if you like the cup half full. :-)

[elmo3]

[quote billb]
Or, interesting, if you like the cup half full. :-)
The engineer says that the cup is overengineered.

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[quote elmo3][Windows XP makes this one FAR SIMPLER than Crapple does on Macintosh.
Mac: System Preferences->Security-> check/uncheck a checkbox
XP: Right-click on desktop->select Screensaver-> check/uncheck a checkbox

"FAR SIMPLER?" Eh?

[Racer X]

Hmmmm, on OS X, it is right where it should be, on Windows, might as well hide it with the printer prefs.

[elmo3]

[quote Article Accelerator][quote elmo3][Windows XP makes this one FAR SIMPLER than Crapple does on Macintosh.
Mac: System Preferences->Security-> check/uncheck a checkbox
XP: Right-click on desktop->select Screensaver-> check/uncheck a checkbox

"FAR SIMPLER?" Eh?
Yep--because when I want to change how my screen saver behaves, I want to go to where the screen saver is configured.

I don't want to go someplace else, like the Security control panel, which doesn't make any sense.

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[quote elmo3]I don't want to go someplace else, like the Security control panel, which doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't make sense to go to the security settings when you want to change a security option?

Uh, okay...