Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20151224121621/@comment-3547390-20160222235950

Windows XP was definitely my starting point, though I have played with several different OS systems on VM hardware as well as a few school computers that had Windows 2000. I am a big fan of Windows 7 and feel that was when Windows was at its finest. XP is pretty good, though the scheduled tasks was a bit less user friendly, the rareness of 64 bit resulting in more than 2 RAM being useless, and Aero snap being one of the best features Microsoft ever added. The search feature on 7 is a lot better than what we had in XP, I like the combination of taskbar buttons as it allows for a more minimalist design, and I was never a big fan of the old quick links due to the taxing space of the task bar already. Windows 7 takes less time to turn off and allows for more customizability than the older themes files that tended to be unstable at best. XP was good for its time, but I feel Windows 7 surpassed it (never really bothered with Vista and going back to it now just makes me notice the lack of 7 features). Windows 8 just feels like an unstable bootleg of Windows 7, looking quite tacky and having a lot of flickering. The charm bar, the splash screen, the full screen applications that require you to drag to the point that you just Alt-F4 out of everything; Windows 8 was horrible. Windows 10, at least the version I tested (I don't like the idea of it being fluidly designed for the simple reason that everything I know about it might change in a short time without me knowing) was at least a lot better than Windows 8. The biggest problem I saw with Windows 10 was the flickering effects, it tended to be unstable when maximizing windows. The new features existed, but they weren't a hindrance, nor were they things that felt like they improved anything. The one thing I like about 10 is the Aero snap to 4 corners since sometimes I like to keep a certain resolution for a window, but the instabilities caused me to have little incentive to switch.

I don't keep the default desktop icons, I remove them all and add a few game titles to make it easy to select what I want to play. If I ever wanted to go the route of My Computer, I just go through the Start Menu. Total Commander wasn't bad, the split screen could be useful in certain scenarios, but it just never felt like a good program to fully replace Windows Explorer. I am visual based, so I like big icons and thumbnails instead of lists.

Yeah, eventually I will be going back to a lot of titles. Of course, first thing is getting past this nightmare of a book series. I am playing more with the idea of perhaps calling it complete before finishing the entire series, especially since I learned that there is two more books in said series which brings the total up to 17. Having already passed 1996, I have technically done all that needs to be done, so perhaps reading the rest would just be a redundant waste of time. The main reason to read this book in 1998 is because it is the one title separating me from having the ability to touch the WoT game later on, one of the big roadblocks of the Unreal engine.

I thought Half Life was Windows based. I forget what the issue was, I remember the orange CD my father had, but I also remember it not working with my Windows XP computer. Maybe I just had a bad CD, I will actually bother with figuring it out when I get around to Half Life. Once again, stuck on what I am stuck on for the moment.

IE has apparently ended and been replaced with Edge in Windows 10. At this point, I doubt I will switch from Maxthon to anything anytime shortly due to the fact that I really love the feature of 2 browser engines.