Re: OT - Desktop Linux

Sports Fan wrote:

If it is just undeletable, then use this.
http://www.jrtwine.com/Products/DelFXPFiles/

That doesn't look much like M$ - but will check out.

If it is in use, then trace the service or the application that is using
it, which makes sense.

Why ? I want to delete the file, but let the app using it to continue
using it till it's done.

The last resort is to use one of the utilities that come with
Microsoft's Resource Kit CDs, which are mostly available for download.
The package you should be looking for called "inuse", which is a small
command line based software.

Will do a search.

You make is sound as if it is an easy thing.

It should be with all of Bill's manpower.

That would break thousands if not millions of software packages, games,
drivers, ...etc.

Why would it break anything to gracefully terminate a process/driver that
is screwing up ? The app is already broken, you're just keeping it from
breaking the other apps that are running. The later Windoze OS's are
already doing a fair job at catching exceptions and keeping the OS up,
they just need to solidify it.

Are you aware that the installation of some of the drivers in UNIX need
reboot too?
It depends on what driver.

Very rare from my memory.

Developers have no control over it, and they follow the WDM already,
which is, I assure you, much more documented and easier to work with
than any other device driver model that I have seen.

At the top of those developers is the guy in charge telling them what to
work on - start there.

Windows registry is already doing that.
Look in HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive.

But it keeps it in the main registry instead of creating a per user
registry in their home directory.

Which would be a hack, and subject to problems, if not causing
headaches.
There are several packages out there that do that for you.
One of them was just acquired by Microsoft, and it is said that
Microsoft will be offering that package for free.

It's about time. It's next to impossible to shift apps from disk to disk
when you run out of space. On UNIX, you just move it.

It is already done.
\ is the base path in Windows and the rest is defined in the path
environment entry just like UNIX.

Doesn't appear to be set that way on mine. But it could be an NTFS thing
and I'm using FAT32 currenntly (for compatibility).

Already done.

Look in my registry and see if you can find any absolute paths that don't
start with a drive designator.

Look in the Disk Manager.

For what ? ANd which disk manager are we talking about ?

I hate to sound like a Windows supporter, but the only valid point you
have is restarting Windows for some minor installations and updates.
Files in use problems exist on all platforms and path is virtually the
same, drives can be mounted at will at any mount point or even as a
folder in another drive, not only the root one, and the registry is well
organized.

You obviously haven't been reading closely and I've only scratched the
surface (items which irritate me daily).

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