Help In My War Against Microsoft!

Mr_Fusty

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This thread should be easier than the last....I hope.

In my continuing war aginst Microsoft, I recently downloaded FireFox for use instead of IE. And I report, I was very happy with my desicion. So happy, that I want to banish IE just like I banished Office - to electronic heaven :D . However, it's all a tangle in there and not exactly sure how to rip it out without killing the OS itself (not ready yet to embace Unix) My OS is XP Pro SP 2 - European Edition (if that matters).

On a related topic, is there another option than Media Player which won't cack up my music allready on there?

Thanks for any help you are able to give me...
 
You can't really remove MSIE as your shell (well, you can, but I haven't seen any good alternatives), but you can remove all links to it and make Firefox your default browser.

I use VLC or Media Player Classic for videos, Winamp for music.
 
You can't really remove MSIE as your shell (well, you can, but I haven't seen any good alternatives), but you can remove all links to it and make Firefox your default browser.

I use VLC or Media Player Classic for videos, Winamp for music.

Yeah, Microsoft made it pretty impossible to get rid of their built-in applications, even if you don't use them.

WinAmp works for both video's and music. VLC is considerably better for video's though.
 
You cant win the war against Microsoft! :scan:

:p
 
IE is for all intents integrated into the Windows OS.

The main alternatives to WMP would be VLC, Media Player Classic or Winamp, but IMO all of them have lower playback quality that WMP, and less options for managing song/video libraries.
 
last i heard IE was still bound to several components of the OS. which is terrible from a design standpoint, but I'm sure it's wonderful from a vendor lock in stand point. So i don't think you should get rid of IE until you're ready to get rid of windows altogether.

i use vlc media player because it plays just about everything.
 
IE is for all intents integrated into the Windows OS.
Once apon a time in a distant memory. The Windows OSes didint have IE intergrated within them. Namely Windows 95, 3.1x (Both DOS and NT variant), 3, 2, and 1. :mischief:
 
About the best you can do is remove it from your desktop and any quick links, such as start menu, etc., but in all honesty you might want to keep it handy because there are occasionally websites that work only in IE, or at least function properly only in IE. Netflix's new streaming content only functions in IE, for example. Very annoying.
 
Firefox has this handy little extension called IE Tab that uses IE's rendering engine. On the rare occasions a page won't work in Firefox, it's much easier to use IE Tab than load up a separate browser, and I've never had it fail me yet. You can even set it so certain sites always load in IE Tab, so you don't have to manually switch if you regular visit a site you need it for.
 
This thread should be easier than the last....I hope.

In my continuing war aginst Microsoft, I recently downloaded FireFox for use instead of IE. And I report, I was very happy with my desicion. So happy, that I want to banish IE just like I banished Office - to electronic heaven :D . However, it's all a tangle in there and not exactly sure how to rip it out without killing the OS itself (not ready yet to embace Unix) My OS is XP Pro SP 2 - European Edition (if that matters).

On a related topic, is there another option than Media Player which won't cack up my music allready on there?

Thanks for any help you are able to give me...

Why don't you start with formating your hard drive?
 
I refuse to listen to logic - I will win against Microsoft in the end! I suspected as much - the main reason for me wanting to rip IE out because even though I now have the links & have assocaited the files to use Firefox instead, IE just seems to keep coming back (:mad: :mad: :mad:) **** it! The next computer I'm getting will use Unix in some form...

I'll try some of your suggestions out over the next week.
 
I refuse to listen to logic - I will win against Microsoft in the end! I suspected as much - the main reason for me wanting to rip IE out because even though I now have the links & have assocaited the files to use Firefox instead, IE just seems to keep coming back (:mad: :mad: :mad:) **** it! The next computer I'm getting will use Unix in some form...

I'll try some of your suggestions out over the next week.

most OEMs won't come with unix/linux you can always download it now and dual boot, or if you're really hardcore completely remove windows.
 
Or just build your own rig, and save some money.

Building your own PC only saves significant money if you're building a high-end machine. Low-end machines are significantly cheaper from someone like Dell or Gateway. Mid-range machines are probably around the break-even point. You can probably save a little money by doing it all yourself, but then you have to ask if the time investment is worth it.
 
Building your own PC only saves significant money if you're building a high-end machine. Low-end machines are significantly cheaper from someone like Dell or Gateway. Mid-range machines are probably around the break-even point. You can probably save a little money by doing it all yourself, but then you have to ask if the time investment is worth it.

I'd contest the "significantly cheaper" claim, particularly if no OS is purchased with the self-built one, which was my implication in response to the claim that OEMs only come with Windows.
 
I'd contest the "significantly cheaper" claim, particularly if no OS is purchased with the self-built one, which was my implication in response to the claim that OEMs only come with Windows.

I won't argue too much over this as prices do change. I built my last machine about a year and a half ago (with no OS) - and at that time, I only saved any money by building a nice machine (plus I already had an LCD monitor for it).
 
Building your own PC only saves significant money if you're building a high-end machine. Low-end machines are significantly cheaper from someone like Dell or Gateway. Mid-range machines are probably around the break-even point. You can probably save a little money by doing it all yourself, but then you have to ask if the time investment is worth it.
Any examples? Most of the computers on Dell's site look like rip-offs, even the ones that cost <$1000
 
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