Windows Longhorn Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 27, 2025, 05:13:04 pm
content: I enjoyed this video and it's nice to know from adevelopersengineeringpoint of view and understand why the "pain in the *rse" search indexer from Vista was the way that it was part idea of the resource intensive Winfs file system that never took off.Someone brought a Dell quad core all brand new with 8gb of memory and Vista. It was thin small size one I remember and them complaining it was really slow. I found it was the search indexer using up disc bandwidth? whatever it was searching the drive and as a result things were loading up slow but once disabled it seemed very quick.I found with lots of emails in Outlook this Indexer does indeed speed it up this plugin.I remembering having a look at a build on Longhorn and I think it was 4008 that I loaded on this old Pentium 2 laptop and it was nice and quick until the bootloader broke. The next build I saw was just slow and awful with things I vaguely saw what he referred as "flashy" and I remembered they moved the menu bar below the buttons and address bar in the original styling but not with the Aero glass theme, something which I still hate. I didn't know years later it would get worse with the breadcrumbs, folders that automatically change the view to Thumbnails or large tiles and hides the filenames all because there was a JPG file was in it when going back in it. Having to go into properties and customize I think to set category to videos, then this option to show? file names would appear in the menu and then for it to happen again. That made me loose me temper like I had no control of my viewing preferences and they were being ignored and sidelined to something the inconvenienced me like it was some overzealous person who thought I didn't need to see file names. Then there was the defaulting of the search preference. So I set "name, type, size, created, modified" save and it would default back to "name, tags, ratings" and I got rid of it and installed something else on this laptop that came with the business edition but noticed this stuff was either u-turned or fixed in service pack 2 and seems to have returned in Windows 10 but found I can use folder bags in registry, which creates keys on the last window opened and I can copy that to this other subkey so it remember the preference.The man has this accent that sounded a bit to me at first like the General out of this game called Gunman Chronicles so I looked but no. I heard that accent before and the appearance in something which turned out to be this film called Virus in 1999 with "Captain Robert Everton" played by Donald Sutherland especially in the scene where he gets converted into a robot and the way he says "what's wrong", "you don't recognize me".

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2025, 07:56:29 pm
content: Interesting."... Windows 7, released in 2009 ... "Sitting here running under that OS, realizing it's now a 16-year-old product.And the one I'm planning on using for the foreseeable future.

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 30, 2025, 10:49:40 pm
content: I found Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC build 1809 in early 2020 and spent a few years modifying things for about 2 years until satisfied before I started using it.No App store therefore no promotional crap gets installed behind my back and less overhead.Quite pleased with it so far and still supported for another 4 or 5 years.There are still problems like from Vista that disappeared from Vista Service pack 2 and Windows 7 but returned in Windows 10 and I have a way of controlling it. To do with Search and folder bags in registry that sometimes defaults the view.