Hi all,
I have a terrible confession to make. Although some of you may be disguised by reading this, I feel I have to let it out of my system. Please feel free to leave anytime you feel a strange swirl in your gut or a taste of disguist in your mouth.
In the recent year or so, I've been doing terrible things to my XP installation.
- disabled all the Holy Services but 5 or 6
- uninstalled Messenger, Netmeeting, Remote Desktop Sharing, Speech Engines and whatnot else, unregistered and deleted their honorable DLLs without giving them a chance to do their thing which I know I'll need someday... Not!
- Applied every known "TweaK" I could find... I woke up with IOPageLockLimit and mumbled twice "ClearPageFileAtShutdown" before going to bed
- I have enslaved my beloved XP with more and more Critical Worker Threads and exhausted it with RealTimePriority
- Deprived it of Resolving NTFS shortcuts and freed it of His Documents, His Pictures, His Music, His Ebooks, His Favorites, His Templates, His Themes and His Cursors
- I have made it NEARLY impossible for XP to log my activity and report it to Whoever Needs 2 Know. Why? Beats me, but now I have a feeling I have done something terribly wrong. After all, I am not his Creator, ain't I?
- I even relied on services of creepy external torturers like XSetup and Tweaki, but THOSE WHO INSTALL SHELL EXTENSIONS like Norton The Fat Guy and TweakXP "I-Cannot-Stand-On-My-Feet-From-All-This-Jewelry" were quickly thrown out after the 453th reinstall
- Hired many cleaners like JV, but they have not shown themselves as very stable persons
- Done many other unthinkable tortures to this poor little thing. I started worrying, I mean, it has reduced to 887 M in size and getting thinner every day...
The weirdest thing is, whatever terrible torures I have applied to him, my XP seems to love me more and more. It crashes less and less on me and uses less and less memory. It obeys me more and more, and what's the strangest, even his buddies like OfficeXP and the bunch are more obedient and humble.
Now I don't know what else to do. Should I re-format C: and re-install XP without touching anything, and as a punishment for my sins, should I always full install all the applications and do an Online Registration whenever they wish, or should I continue to starve out and enslave this dying bastard... but where would I find new techniques of torture? I hear his cousin Linux is becoming fatter and fatter, but it's no fun torturing a poor guy.
The road ahead is dark...
I have a terrible confession to make. Although some of you may be disguised by reading this, I feel I have to let it out of my system. Please feel free to leave anytime you feel a strange swirl in your gut or a taste of disguist in your mouth.
In the recent year or so, I've been doing terrible things to my XP installation.
- disabled all the Holy Services but 5 or 6
- uninstalled Messenger, Netmeeting, Remote Desktop Sharing, Speech Engines and whatnot else, unregistered and deleted their honorable DLLs without giving them a chance to do their thing which I know I'll need someday... Not!
- Applied every known "TweaK" I could find... I woke up with IOPageLockLimit and mumbled twice "ClearPageFileAtShutdown" before going to bed
- I have enslaved my beloved XP with more and more Critical Worker Threads and exhausted it with RealTimePriority
- Deprived it of Resolving NTFS shortcuts and freed it of His Documents, His Pictures, His Music, His Ebooks, His Favorites, His Templates, His Themes and His Cursors
- I have made it NEARLY impossible for XP to log my activity and report it to Whoever Needs 2 Know. Why? Beats me, but now I have a feeling I have done something terribly wrong. After all, I am not his Creator, ain't I?
- I even relied on services of creepy external torturers like XSetup and Tweaki, but THOSE WHO INSTALL SHELL EXTENSIONS like Norton The Fat Guy and TweakXP "I-Cannot-Stand-On-My-Feet-From-All-This-Jewelry" were quickly thrown out after the 453th reinstall
- Hired many cleaners like JV, but they have not shown themselves as very stable persons
- Done many other unthinkable tortures to this poor little thing. I started worrying, I mean, it has reduced to 887 M in size and getting thinner every day...
The weirdest thing is, whatever terrible torures I have applied to him, my XP seems to love me more and more. It crashes less and less on me and uses less and less memory. It obeys me more and more, and what's the strangest, even his buddies like OfficeXP and the bunch are more obedient and humble.
Now I don't know what else to do. Should I re-format C: and re-install XP without touching anything, and as a punishment for my sins, should I always full install all the applications and do an Online Registration whenever they wish, or should I continue to starve out and enslave this dying bastard... but where would I find new techniques of torture? I hear his cousin Linux is becoming fatter and fatter, but it's no fun torturing a poor guy.
The road ahead is dark...
