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Seph

Seph

* * Filthy European * *
with windows 7 Bleurgh...

see my problem is that it for some bizarre reason will not let me set a desktop background, i do exactly what you have to do to set one(its not fucking difficult) but for some stupid reason it wont set it.

has anyone else experienced this with windows 7 and does anyone have a solution...

ty.
 
Seph said:
ummmm ty no?
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See, the issue is that you nailed it at "some bizarre reason." And that's where you goofed -- Microsoft OSes don't have bizarre reasons for anything. They have -- NO -- reasons for their fuckups, and the fuckups are plentiful. It could be your UAC settings. It could just as easily be that your installation is fuckin' borked. Or it could be, as just mentioned, that there is no reason At. All.

On a Mac, you don't have those issues. They just don't happen. Why? Because the premium you pay on a Windows machine for hardware that isn't made to third-world standards gets paid into hardware components made in the U.S. and mated to an operating system that is specifically designed to use those components to maximum effectiveness. That's why a Mac wit 1Gb of memory outperforms a Windows box with 4Gb of memory. First, because the 1Gb of memory on the Mac is made in the U.S.A. and second because Apple squeezes every last 10th of a drop of juice out of that 1Gb, while Windows lets three quarters of it dribble down its fuckin' chin.

Forget what you've been told by beards. In fact, don't even listen to what The Saint told ya, but just get your hands on a Mac and spend a good 10 minutes not being bombarded with asinine failures for which there is no other explanation other than the fact that you're trying to use Windows, which is an operating system whose each and every single fucking improvement is based on aping what Apple's already done. Once you go Mac, you'll never --

fail to laugh your hindquarters off at Windows users who refuse to switch.

For serious.
 
Seph said:
i would rather drink my own spleen than have a mac, but thanks anyway.
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Well, that's all you, buddy-boy. But here's the deal -- you already know Windows sucks. That's your big burly beef in this thread, now innit?

What's your other option, Linux? You got time to learn ancient Latin and spread sanctified dust on the floor? Because if you think Windows is user-unfriendly -- and, by Christ, any OS that won't tell you what error stopped your program, what caused it, OR what to do about it -- is sure as bile-green shit NOT user-friendly -- then you have a whole new Cenobite-inspired version of Hell waiting for you when you load up any Linux distro.

The fact is, Windows to some extent and any version of Linux without a doubt are for computer enthusiasts. Macs are for computer users. Macs are for people who don't have 20 or 30 hours a week to tinker around with a fucking machine and instead have not only professional but personal lives, which means that they have shit to get done on a computer, get on the Mac, get that shit fucking done and get on with their lives away from the desk.

You like being your computer's slave instead of it being yours? Well, then, you just stick right there with Windows.
 
Want proof that Microsoft's each and every "innovation" is a cheap, half-assed knockoff of what Apple already accomplished?

Behold! The Microsoft "Touch Mouse"! Fucking thing isn't even available yet!

And, Oh, LOOK! And how long has Apple had this on the market?

Face up to it, fella -- Microsoft proposes nothing in the face of Apple.
 
i always liked XP, i always knew what i wanted to do and how to do it, vista and 7 were fail, so i dont agree with every last point.

each to their own i would only cross to a Mac if it was needed to do work on, i think they suck for cruising the net.

but thank for telling me mine is shit and your is super, i guess we dont see eye to eye there.
 
Oh, wait - NVM the Air-design (that's a gimmick where the surface looks like glass or something - I've never tried it.

I've just stumbled over the info that there is a Win7 version for netbooks - Win7 Starter - that automatically disables the desktop background. You can't change that setting without downloading a tool, which should be availabe online free or charge.

Maybe that's what you need.
 
Seph said:
i always liked XP, i always knew what i wanted to do and how to do it, vista and 7 were fail, so i dont agree with every last point.

each to their own i would only cross to a Mac if it was needed to do work on, i think they suck for cruising the net.

but thank for telling me mine is shit and your is super, i guess we dont see eye to eye there.
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And that's okay, nobody says we gotta see eye to eye on every little thing. But I will tell you this -- you just don't and can't know what you're missing 'til you've used one. Especially when the mouse is set to "one button" mode. Good God, there's just no way words can capture entirely how much more comfortable it is on the hand to use four fingers to click links than it is to use the one finger all off-kilter like a Windows mouse forces you to do.

And hey, maybe it's a difference in personal taste -- catch-all excuse for everything, right? For me, I've found that the Mac version of Safari can't be beat for web surfing, nor can most apps made for the Mac, owing to the...

Well, here's the thing. From a Windows user's point of view, Apple's app submission guidelines are just horrible, HORRIBLE and Nazi-like.

But y'know what? Once you get your hands on those apps that are accepted? You will never have to ask what the benefits of that model are. Not once, not ever. Swiss mother fucking watchmakers don't put their shit together as tight as Apple does.

And again, also as mentioned: Windows is for enthusiasts. OS X is for users.

Windows users, i.e. Enthusiasts sit down at their computers to fuckin' negotiate.
Apple users sit down at their computers with a god damned mother fucking mission. The Mac is their ally. You tackle a project on a Mac, and you've got the equivalent of an M1 Garand, and the Mac is right there with you in the creative foxhole. A Windows system will turn on you. It'll fuck you, right at the last second and for no reason What. So. Ever. A Mac will give you suppressing fire while you charge that project and take the enemy territory.

Whole different paradigm. Windows computers are for those who aren't really all that serious about getting much of... well... anything actually done.

Macs are for users who not only get it done, but toss a grenade into the workload's foxhole and slaughter the living fuck out of that project when it tries to escape.

Here's how the two react to a "problem."

Windows: "Ahhhh, we see you'll become a problem for the user and interrupt their productivity. Well, listen, we're going to make like we didn't see a thing. Slide right on through."

Mac is more like Bas Ruten: "What?! What, mother fucker?! You messing with my user?! I DON'T FUCKING THINK SO! *BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! NOW who's got a runtime error, sissy bitch! HUH?! NOW who's got an exception! ARE THOSE YOUR TEETH ON THE FLOOR, DIRECTX?! GET YOUR SISSY BITCH ASS OUT OF HERE!"

And now you know why everyone at the top of every business uses Macs. Because Macs do not take any shit.
 
Windows = shit.
Macs = shit.

Install Ubuntu. It's free and it works well. You don't need a degree in computer science to run it, it's pretty user friendly and highly customizable. In other words...

Ubuntu = not shit.
 
Ilyanna said:
Oh, wait - NVM the Air-design (that's a gimmick where the surface looks like glass or something - I've never tried it.

I've just stumbled over the info that there is a Win7 version for netbooks - Win7 Starter - that automatically disables the desktop background. You can't change that setting without downloading a tool, which should be availabe online free or charge.

Maybe that's what you need.
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that is what i need, illy hun can u find me a link, i will be grateful in whatever way you see fit. :D
 
my computer is not HP, but i will check it and report back, you will only get your "fitting" if it works, then you can cash the IOU.

:P
 
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