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I have to say, I am so god damn happy I am switching to a Mac - Windows has done it this time, no more bullshit now.

Today I was watching a DVD in Windows Media Player on one screen and playing World of Warcraft in window mode on the other screen, it was working fine for a while until Windows decides to lockup, freeze and crash, what I mean it - first everything locked up then a few seconds later it froze, nothing would work then both my screens go black and the green lights go orange, the only thing that fixed it was a full restart by pressing my favorite button the “Restart Button” on the computer case.

I really cant wait till I get my iMac, I wont have to put up with this piece of shit called Windows anymore.

Vista has worked good for me, but with all these little programs like games crashing, my network not working and all that shit - I just cant take it anymore, I SWITCH, goodbye Windows, goodbye Microsoft, I fucking hate you.

Yesterday I was on the Apple website watching the Get a Mac ads they worked fine, then later I went back to show someone the ads but instead of the ad playing I got “You need Quicktime 7 Installed” I tried in every browser I have installed Firefox, IE, Safari for Windows and that damn message came up every single fucking time.

I tried restarting the browsers, reinstalling Quicktime and nothing bloody worked, I gave up in the end and tried a while different machine, and that message came up again on a different machine.

Windows + Quicktime = Fail.

I went to the shopping centre today and while walking around I saw this on one of the ad screens they have there,

I made a Windows Sidebar gadget a while ago, and everyone who has it says it keeps ‘flashing’, I’ve tried to fix this many times but I don’t see the flashing, so its a little hard to fix, I think I’m going to have to rewrite it..

I’ve been using MSN / Windows Live Messenger for years and I’ve always loved it.

But since I used WLM 8.5 Beta I have started to dislike it, the main reason being it didn’t work right, every time someone sent me a message the damn thing crashed.

 I know it was a beta version but still - why release it when it crashes all the time? Shouldn’t they fix that before asking people to test it?, So I removed it and put 8.1 back on.

But today I thought I would try 8.5 as its now ’stable’, When I first tried it I liked the new interface but now I don’t seem to like it that much anymore, and the first time someone sent me a message the Windows border went all black - I’m guessing its because I have the window borders turned off, but still that shouldn’t have happened and made me think about going back to 8.1 - again.

When I was talking to someone and I was looking at the chat and contact windows again, I just kept remembering WLM crashing back when I had the beta installed, it was starting to annoy me, I just had to go back to 8.1, I’m not sure what I will do when they drop support for my favorite version, I guess I’ll just have to get used to the new interface or use something like Trillian.

Everyone is always saying Vista sucks, its unstable, its this, its that, its the worst version, blah blah blah blah blah…

Well, I’ve been using Vista for quite a while now and I have to say, I have had hardly any problems with it, I guess its because I actually know how to use it unlike those whining little babies.

“What do you mean, ‘You know how to use it’ ?”,
What I mean is, Turn off the shit you don’t need like UAC and Windows Defender, that will instantly boost the performance and stability of the system.

There are a few reasons to keep UAC on, but I really cant be stuffed having to run all my games and installers as Administrator every time, and the confirm dialogs are bloody annoying.

Windows Defender on the other hand, there is not a single reason to keep it on, all it does is slow the startup of Windows, I had it turned off for months then turned it back on then after restarting my computer I almost smashed something.

With Windows Defender enabled whenever I turned on my computer on and opened Firefox it took at least 5 minutes to launch the program, but with Windows Defender turned off it only takes a few seconds.

Besides the UAC, Windows Defender, a networking issue and Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer) crashing problem, Vista works fine for me.

If you really want to know what the networking issue is, then read on,
Sometimes when I turn my computer on Vista fails to recognize that my network cable is plugged in and connected to my router, which ultimately disables me from connecting to the rest of my computers and the internet.

The Windows Explorer crashing issue problem rarely happens.