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Originally Posted by Qiaozhi
That's one solution, but it means that you lose all your data since the last backup. Personally I prefer to reset to factory settings and get rid of all the cr*p. Then Windoze is much faster ... for a while anyway.
At least everything is now up and running again. 
Also, I connected my HP printer to the Linux machine and it worked immediately without needing to load any drivers. You can print over the network from Windoze to Linux with minimal setting up (share the printer). On the Windoze box I have to load >50MB of software to get it working as just as a local printer !! |
The easy solution to shared printers is a remote print server... you connect it over the network and the printer to it... then send to server any print job... it will print whatever you want, from whatever machine no matter of OS.
Windows OS are not made for such stuff... for e.g. compatibility with other systems or for share devices... anything you wanna do with windows costs you something, disk space, memory or cpu cycles much more than with OS like linux
Windows is never optimized, but it's much more focused on interface than actual horse power... at long it's high inefficient.
You can run an old linux today... no problems... put software, load new compilers etc in matter of few minutes and they work too... even if the linux box was made 3 or 5 years ago... not big problem.
But try to run e.g. some Office97 thing on Vista !
This is because MS don't wanna good systems and let them stay out for more years or recycle software... but wanna create slaves... who buy software and OS each 2-3 years... buy last office, buy their software and forget about user needs! It's business.
Linux isn't business and so it works the other way.
Kind regards,
Max