Right-click the name BootDir, and then, click Modify. In the text box under the Name column, type 'BootDir' (without quotes) and press ENTER. On the Edit menu, point to New, and click String Value.
![]() Windows Xp Sp2 Mac OS X AndI'm also really tired of the lack of 64-bit drivers. There are other OSes, after all Mac OS X and Ubuntu are mighty attractive.Brian Chee, Test Center contributor I just moved to a Mac laptop due to my frustration with Vista's flaky behavior when I switch among lots of different networks, as I must do when I perform test setups. It's clear that the Redmond developers' agenda is in conflict with what I and many other users would like to see.Yet, it's not a biggie for me if Microsoft prefers its own agenda. How many software engineers does it take to write that code? I don't know the answer, but must be a large number because that inconsistency with the regular window behavior has been there since the Paleolithic Windows version.These are just two examples of the issues Microsoft could have fixed or begun fixing in Vista but didn't. Printer drivers are included for Windows XP/Vista/7 and Mac OS X 10.5 (or higher).Another of my pet peeves with Windows XP (and Vista): Try using a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+V) to paste text in a command Window, and all you'll get is ^V on the command line. Companies can only force their customers to do things that they don't want to do one or two times. I've never understood how the guys who created VMS could let that happen.I liked that it was stable, and that it finally got users away from the DOS-based Windows of the past.And I think Microsoft is really messing up in trying to force people to upgrade to a system that is even less of a productivity improvement for end-users than was XP over Windows 2000. One of the easiest ways to improve the performance of XP was to make it look like Windows 2000.I never liked that it maintained the random DLL model. Thank God they aren't killing the thin XP version for kiosks and embedded applications.Steve Hultquist, Test Center contributor I always hated how all that pretty eye candy came with a significant performance impact. On the other hand, I've had to keep one fairly decent "Windoze" XP machine around for those products that are Windows-only. Owen, Test Center contributor Yours truly moved to Mac a long, long time ago. And so far, I've been able to.James C. Anyone see any evidence of that with Microsoft products, yet?I'm keeping my clients on XP, and have no intention of moving them to Vista if I can possibly avoid it. Plus Apple was falling apart in this period. I had spent several years in the Mac OS 8 world, which was a major advance over Windows 98 but starting to show its limits as well. It's never worked right since.Galen Gruman, executive editor for news and features I was very happy when Windows 2000 (despite its limited driver support) and Windows XP came out, especially XP SP2. And I corrupted one Mac a long time ago with Parallels - never again. I was updating a pair of InDesign how-to books and needed to run the beta software on the current OSes, meaning Mac OS X (10.4 Tiger) and a time-limited demo version of the soon-to-ship Vista, in addition to XP. Flash-forward to fall 2006. Mac OS X came out and looked interesting, but my platform was the PC and my primary OS was XP. I used it only when I absolutely had to, dreading the "where did Microsoft hide it?" and "will I remember what I was doing when Vista finally responds?" games.It was clear that to run Vista, I would need a new PC. "Why mess with what worked?" I grumbled to myself. If you didn't know something existed, now you had no way to find it other than random right-clicking. The interface was clumsy, with many menu items disappeared. Mac program for printing labelsIn just two months I had abandoned all my PC apps, as it turned out I could live fine without them. "Hell," I thought, "if I'm going to invest in a new OS, let me invest in one that works." So I got a new MacBook Pro and installed XP on it via Parallels Desktop. I did, however, really like Tiger. I really didn't like Vista, and I couldn't see buying a new PC to run something I didn't like. ![]() For them, XP will do the trick indefinitely.
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