Re: XP: Cool feature with a weakness

"Jesus" <rustybucket666@xxxxxxxxx> stated in post
1176752556.215395.137290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 4/16/07 12:42 PM:

That means it's not a cool XP feature with a weakness. It's a cool video
card driver feature, and the way XP is designed that (and all other video
settings) happen to carry over to every other user account.

This has been beaten to death... it is a common experience of an XP machine.

Let's agree to disagree on the definition of "XP experience".

Fair enough. As long as I define what I mean and you can understand it I am
not that concerned about complete agreement on a phrase... that is just
silly semantics.

I admit it is not an ideal phrase, but I do not know of a better one. As I
have noted, when I talked about the experience with an XP machine people
whined that the machine could also run Linux so it was not really an XP
machine.

and it is implemented on many other XP machines, such as
many stock Dells

...by the video card driver. Not XP.

Not in debate.

It is dependant, of course, on both the hardware and the
drivers.

...because it's not actually part of XP. It's entirely third-party
software.

On the computer in question, yes. On all versions of Windows, no. The fact
that settings carry over to the login screen - based on Windows.

Yes, the settings carrying over is the fault of Windows. Screen
rotation is not part of XP. There is no XP interface for rotating the
screen. There is no Vista interface for rotating the screen.

It certainly does, in many cases, ship with that. From the viewpoint of the
experience of the user, it really does not matter how or where or even why
that feature is there. None of that is really even relevant when talking
about the experience people have, *other* than to note it is not consistent
on all machines, something I did not do in my first post but clarified long
ago.

*Nobody* has said otherwise...

Your original thread indicated otherwise by attributing the feature to
XP instead of the video card driver. The problem you're complaining
about is XP's fault, but the cool feature you speak of is NOT part of
XP, which is why your original post was misleading.

Covered to death: experience of using XP. Next.

You have since clarified that, yes. I'm just saying why people have
been complaining about your initial post.

Sure: even after things were clarified Steve is *still* not able to get past
the point from before that... even though he quoted the clarification in his
initial complaints about the first post.


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