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Even if you did find a stable tweak, there's a good chance MS would come along and dork it for you, particularly on Vista.

36 updates and counting:

Another surprise: There were 36 other necessary updates, mainly security, bug fixes and enhancements. That number doesn't include the optional updates, such as other drivers. Thirty-six updates later, plus the video driver, I rebooted Vista, which came up with the correct graphics driver installed and optimal screen resolution. But Aero was missing. Vista loaded the Basic user interface, instead.

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/thirty-six_updates_laterand_counting.html

This would have borked and graphics tweaks and most attempts to improve your frame rate.

And, not coincidentally, this is one of the big problems in a Windows shop, especially if you have auto updates enabled. Of course, auto updates in an enterprise setting is an operational death wish. Still, it's a monthly ritual of sorting out the things that stop working after updates go out.

Ironically coincidental that I'm sitting here helping one of the execs salvage his personal laptop. Something corrupted the boot sector. Luckily I had a Knoppix CD. Soon as we get done backing up his personal folders and his kid's iPod library we'll run the disk utilities and see if we can salvage this boat anchor. The recovery CD doesn't work but all the data is still there.

Posted by: Chad_z   Posted on: 11/29/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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