What Windows problem have you been never able to resolve?

[!~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~!]

I never really understanded why there was a apple advertise on my Background when I bought my PC

[SaintSatinStain]

ya the time syncronization is one for me too

Check to see if some local security policy, or network policy if in a domain, or program is blocking udp.  Time synch is done with  udp..

[BC_Programmer]

Well, I did resolve it- but it stood as a hurdle for over 4 years.

Not strictly a windows problem, but rather a problem getting at a windows feature. I could NOT, for the life of me, figure out how to show the right-click context menu in my program. I did manage to get it "sort of" working, but after the first-click showing the menu, the second one would GPF.

After over ten or twelve re-writes of the code, I managed to actually get some robust code working that can show the right-click menu for any file. It has been successfully integrated into my Object based File handling library, BCFile.


More Aside from Explorer Fiobles previously described, of course-

Probably more annoying to me, is getting older games working. For example- Need for Speed 2 SE, High Stakes, etc. Oh wait- I solved those too. darn it! Let's see- unresolved... unresolved

Darn it! Can't think of anymore right now, but I know I have many...

Oh well. I know! I'll mindlessly ramble at the one poster whose been completely ignored!

I figured out how to make internet explorer safer




ANSWER: download firefox

*clap* congratulations, you successfully made a comment that made no sense. What your saying is analogous to saying,

"I figured out how to make my hand stop hurting!"

"How's that?"

"Oh, it was easy! I just cut my whole arm off!"

Using firefox is on the whole Safer, but firefox never lends it's additional security to Internet Explorer, and so doesn't, in any way, make IE any safer. If somebody were to install Firefox and continue to run IE, would that make IE safer? NO.

I figured out why windows 95 goes to BSOD so much.



Answer: Run over 3 programs at once and find out.
that really did make me mad as a kid.

Again... this is about unsolved issues, second off, we're talking about machines actually capable of having the issue non-existent. Running windows 95 on a 4MB 386 notwithstanding. I've used windows 95, my friend, and it was much more robust then it is made out to be. In fact- more so then windows 98, since they integrated IE into 98, but not necessarily all versions of 95.

[SaintSatinStain]

I figured out how to have a quick responsive system on an ancient computer with low RAM.

I have an XP Pro, AMD Athlon, 1.2 GHz,  768 MB RAM, and it boots fast. I reinstall OS each year and have learned how to install, especially when there are service packs involved. The method requires that you have a router, your program setups on external hard drive or disk, disks for SP2 and SP3 (I got SP2 free from Microsoft and made my own SP3 dvd disk), and you are careful. Do the install; do not install any programs, including security.  Install ERUNT.  Upgrade to SP2 without installing any programs, and do same with SP3.  During this you are protected by router and native firewall. Install your firewall (remember to turn off native Windows firewall.).  Install your anti virus.  Programs ask you to exit from any programs that you have running; you should make a copy of the registry with ERUNT before each install or a System Restore point. Install just the programs that you actually need, especially avoid the so-called shortcut programs. Example are programs to access settings that you can use the native controls to set or adjust. If a program has a 'portable' version, one without an installer, use it. Many of the programs at Microsoft's Sysinternals do not have installers. There are some good programs there. SIW is a good inventory  program for your system without an installer. The best antirootkits IceSword, GMER, and Rootkit Unhooker, one of the best antispyware on demand scanners, ewido antispyware microscanner, does not have an installer. One antirootkit, one antispyware, and one anti Trojan on demand scanner is all that's needed. Many programs try to or do install to start with Windows. The only ones that need to do this are the firewall and anti virus, perhaps encryption like PGP. Don't install too many extra font, pretty icons to replace the native ones, or eye candy. Turn off all native eye candy except for (see image). You may see other suggestions about which ones to keep by Googling. Turn off system sounds. Do you really need to hear music when the system boots up or shuts down? If you create permanent files store them on disks or external hard drive. You don't need to load them.  There are tweaks to speed up boot, but they are beyond newbie or intermediate suggestions.  Others here will have other suggestions, or differences with mine, to speed up boot. Listen to them and decide.

Each year I use fewer programs, less duplication and crossover, and fewer visual effects.  I almost forgot, keep only the pictures  that you really use often in My Pictures folder; they are loaded each time the system starts up. The pictures in the My Pictures folder are also used as wallpaper.You may wish to remove some of the jpegs in C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper. I only have nine there. Some I removed for aesthetic reasons.

I don't believe that any of the above are dangerous tweaks, if they may be called that. I have a quick responsive system because of the above on an -in computer terms- ancient system.

[Bones92]

The only windows problem I was never able to resolve was one day my built-in mics of my laptop stopped working as soon as I plugged in a different mic into the mic in jack (i had never done it before up to this point.)

Windows did something that disabled my built in mics.

Go figure.

[BC_Programmer]

I figured out how to have a quick responsive system on an ancient computer with low RAM.

I have an XP Pro, AMD Athlon, 1.2 GHz,  768 MB RAM, and it boots fast.

errr- that isn't ancient- older, maybe. Refer to the XP minimum and recommended requirements. That far surpasses the recommended minimum speed of a 233Mhz Pentium 2 or equivalent.

If that's ancient- what was my old XP machine? (which booted in just over a minute, BTW)

AMD K6-2 350 Mhz
512MB RAM
2GB HD +8GB second HD (both fat32 for speed)
XP SP2
ATI Radeon 7000VE
Creative Sound blaster PCI


My trick was disabling many of my services, and no Antivirus, for example.


Ahh, which reminds me of a problem I never was able to solve-


With that old computer- the Radeon 7000 Failed terribly, yellow screens after 3d mode screwed up, etc.

So I bought and attempted to installed the graphics card I'm currently using in this computer- a BFG GeForce FX 5500.

BSOD. regardless- any 3d mode. BSOD. tried everything.

Same thing happened with every card I tried AIW 9000, Geforce FX 6600. etc...