windows bitch thread

tommyj27

tommyj27

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windows can suck my enourmous throbing...hand. I've been trying to make xp move the documents and settings folder from the D: drive to the C: drive, apparently I need to change every flippin' reference to D in the registry and there's a load of them. to make matters worse I'm trying to do it on a Thinkpad with the stupid control stick for a mouse. GAAAAA!:mad:

BTW, does anyone know of a way to resize ntfs partitions other than partition magic? i'd rather not have to aquire it.

I'm sure i'll have more bitching to do later, anyone else?
 
dan

dan

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umm... mine's decided i don't have a 3d graphics card... that kinda sucks...

oh, and i could do some bitching about IIS, PHP and the WWW-Authenticate header... but i suspect that's more to do with my lack of clues than windows lack of sanity...

And if you find a way to resize partitions I'd be interested to hear it
 
Jon

Jon

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tommyj27, sorry but I've no idea what you can do, mate, however what you need, Dan me ol' mucker, is PowerQuest Partition Magic. :)

I have a *ahem* copy round here somewhere that you can borrow.

[bullshit]Of course, I'll have to uninstall my copy first before you install it on your machine, then vice versa when you give it back to me[/bullshit]

:grinyes:
 
tommyj27

tommyj27

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i backed up the registry before i started this little endevour, i just checked the backup size, expecting ~45M, it says it's 2K, somehow i don't think 2k holds all 18 bazillion registry keys. isn't it interesting that microsoft has make system configuration as user-unfriendly as possible to keep everyone from figuring out what makes it tick.
On the bright side, I've now finished changing every instance of D:\Documents and Settings, D:\DOCUME~1, and /Volume2/ to reflect the folder's new home, I started before I created this thread so you do the math:mad:
I almost hope this doesn't work so I have a good reason to ditch the bitch:D, that being windows. Grrr.
 
tommyj27

tommyj27

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doin' the happy dance! doin' the happy dance!
at least the semi happy dance as slackware loads onto a 2gb partition, it'll probably go on the full drive once i convince myself of the utter uselessness of windows. BTW, i tried removing some office components today, it failed because it couldn't access some network resource, now whenever i try to do anything, the office installer pops up and tries to load more stuff from the network, this happens about 10 times, then i can use xxxx program.
 
tommyj27

tommyj27

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raise your hand if you're a big dummy!
/me raises hand :rolleyes:
when installing gentoo on your p3 laptop, it is not the best idea to download the cd image for your athlon xp desktop
 
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