Windows sucks?

[FFMDiver]

Ok a poll a little off topic - but ever since 911 my computer's windows program sucks...constant updates..constant slow as hell operating system means the scuba board is CRAWLING even though I have DSL. How is the scuba board operating in your windows??

 

[FreeFloat]

Not that Windoze doesn't suck to begin with..........

 

[Bob3]

Anyone wanna try out Lindows?

see: http://lindows.com

There's a bootable CD that you can stick in your 'puter to test to see if all your hardware, etc gets recognized. It won't write anything to your HD or otherwise affect your windoze install.
After you verify it's to your liking you can get the regular installation CD & either have it take over your whole HD or you can even do a dual boot system if ya want.
Version 4.5 is currently in beta testing, though v4.0 is working quite nicely.

 

[cliffdiver]

I can't say that I expect much more much faster. That is, I'm not willing to give up as much of my out-of-water life as would be necessary to keep up with all the anti-virus software and Windows updates, keeping track of all the doggone worms and viruses and Trojan horses and whatever else people are throwing out there to mess us all up, and all the general fretting that's required if I want the shiniest, fastest and most bug-free system around.

So, sure, I suppose, on my XP system.... good enough.

I'll know it's too slow when I start thinking I need to grab a drink and start seriously planning my next dive before the pages load.

Then, maybe I need to do that anyway, right now...


P.S. When's the last time you defrag'd?

 

[drbill]

Hmmm... I don't use Windows when I'm diving. However, Paul Allen's yacht has been anchored off Casino Point for several days. It is as big as a "small" cruise ship... and full of Aussie lassies!

Thanks to all of us who use Windows, he can have this yacht with his own helicopter on deck not to mention a sailboat strapped to one side and one of those high speed boats on the other.

I find Windows to be a satisfactory operating systerm if you're using 2000 Pro. 3.1, 95, 98 and ME sucked (I still have to reboot my Win 98 system at least once a day due to memory management problems).

Styarted using Linux back in '92 or '93. Nice OS- system never crashed unless I did something wrong, even then it often didn't fail. Haven't tried Lindows.

Dr. Bill

 

[IslandHopper]

I'd really like to take part in the poll, but since I'm using a Macintosh, it doesn't really apply... of course viruses don't apply here either

Admittedly, very few downloadable dive computers will sync with a mac

 

[eggman131]

Best advice thus far is the defrag idea . . .

Not that I'm the biggest Windows fan, but in all honesty, it's probably NOT Win causing the slow descent into scubaboard, nor is it scubaboard's servers . . . bmuise, I'm betting you've just got some virtual memory issues or something. Do you have these issues when visiting other sites?

 

[CrazyDave]

I use Mozilla myself.
www.mozilla.com
Stops popups, very easy and fast. I know a lot people that use Opera but i do not want to pay for a browser and the free version of Opera has ads. Also make sure that you defrag at least every other month. I do mine every month but then again I transfer alot of info so I do all my hard drives a lot just to cut out the clutter.
One of these days I will Microsoft free. Getting closer every month it seems like.

 

[lamont]

You've probably got a bunch of spyware running on your computer which is slowing it down. You can use programs like ad-aware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com) to try to remove all that crap.

Personally I like to use mozilla on FreeBSD most. Windows has gotten better with 2000 and XP, but I still hate windows just on policy.

And I administrate about 2000 Linux boxes at work and am pretty sick of Linux...

 

[Virus]FSLR2[]

The problem may not be Windows, may not be your DSL, nor may be it your computer. It may be other things; trojan horse applications, hijacked HTTP sessions, or other things.

What may be happening to your bandwidth is this:

When you type in http://www.scubaboard.com you expect a request from your computer to go directly to the web server(s) housing the scubaboard website and for those servers to reply back to your request, sending the data from their server(s) back to your machine.

What is most likely happening is that there is an (or several) application that are running in the background, unbeknownst to you, that hijack your http sessions. When you type in http://www.scubaboard.com (or any web site, or click on any link), these little programs redirect your request to Company X's servers, where they read a cookie (file) on your machine, listing your Internet Address, the name of the site you're attempting to browse to, and some other things, and they put that information into a database. Once that information is stored, they then forward your request to the site you're looking for, and then reply to you with the page you requested. This is called hijacking. It's typically used to build a profile of what types of sites you visit, so they can sell advertising via POPUP windows. Not all Internet browsers make it easy to do this. As mentioned above, Mozilla does not. There are others like Opera that do not as well. Although changing browsers may solve some issues, this also creates several issues on it's own, and most people that I know that use Opera or Mozilla, end up using Internet Explorer more times than not.

Visit this site, " http://www.safer-networking.org/ "download and run the application SPYBOT SEARCH AND DESTROY, run the UPDATE, and then tell it to "Find Problems". Once it's found the 200 or so issues with your computer, clean up the problems (can be done clicking on one button), and then when finished, immunize against these issues so you don't have them in the future. You'll be very surprised to see what's going on behind all the eye candy of web pages, and you'll notice a faster browsing experience immediatly. Best of all, it's free.


If you have problems with popup advertisements, you can try the google toolbar also. you can find it at toolbar.google.com. It adds a toolbar to IE, and has a builtin popup killer that works very well, and is free.
PM me if you have questions