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@desparil

What happens if you do that?

@El_Gato
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/del.mspx?mfr=true (Archiv-Version vom 28.12.2014)

@El_Gato
The same as if you did sudo rm -rf /

@desparil

NOT gonna do that. :P:

@desparil

And at least only the Superuser/Admin can do that. Normal users don't have the necessary password while unter windows every single moron can create and delete files as they please.

@El_Gato
Only if you failed to set an administrator password. That's pretty much your own fault at that point.

@desparil

I'd never forget this. For the average user my laptop is a digital fortress.

@El_Gato
Well that's the only difference - Windows doesn't actually REQUIRE you to set it up, it just asks you to but doesn't put up a fight if you really want to click the "Not Now" button. Otherwise, capital-A Administrator is pretty much the same as Superuser/Root.

@desparil

And this is one of the major flaws of windows.

@El_Gato
It's a feature, not a flaw. A lot of people don't want an administrator password - they would forget it, and then they'd be locked out of key functions of their device because there's no way to recover from that short of reinstalling the entire OS.

@El_Gato
And again, if you're actually worried about that kind of thing, it doesn't lack the capability to set an administrator password - it just lets you say "Ask me later" in perpetuity, like the registration prompt for WinRAR. XD

@desparil

For some it might be a feature, but to me it is a flaw. I sure know why I don't do windows anymore. :trollking:

Discord - Fine. But I don't do windows.

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@El_Gato
Facilitating laziness is a selling point. Why do you think everything is plug n' play nowadays? Back when I was a kid, you had to select the proper IRQ and DMA channels when you were installing a video game. You also had to know what kind of sound card you had because you had to pick it out on a menu so the game knew the right MIDI instrumentation to use. If the game was especially large, you needed to specially format a floppy disk as a "boot disk" - basically to manually do what modern OSes do with virtual memory/page files.

You think I miss those days? Hell no, because convenience is king!

@desparil

Back when you were a kid? Hell, my first machine ran on Win 98 and all I had to do was to choose an installation path.

@El_Gato
My first machine was DOS-only. My second one was DOS-primary, with Windows 3.1 as a secondary OS (you couldn't boot directly to Windows back then).

@desparil

I got my first computer in 2000, when I was 11.

@El_Gato
Windows 95 was HUGE precisely because it made things so much easier. It was just so convenient that everyone was 99.9% willing to forgive it of all its crashing.

@desparil

Win 98 did that way too much as well. If I had to use Windows again nowadays then I would go for Windows 7.

@desparil

And I think it's a huge shame that they cancelled MSN. I liked that nice little messenger...

@El_Gato
Oh really? I never paid it much attention... everyone I knew used AIM in high school, and even that gradually faded away as Facebook became more and more popular.