(03-22-2023, 05:36 PM)mnrvovrfc Wrote: ...
I don't know why you're getting these errors. I haven't upgraded to Windows11 so I wouldn't know how using that system is like.
TLDR: windows 11 sucks almost as bad as windows 8 did, definitely worse than vista and ME. (Anyone who wants to skip my Windows 11 rant, ignore the next couple paragrahs... sorry but MS makes me crazy sometimes)
<rant>I have had the displeasure of using a couple people's computers that either came with, or where in one case someone had the misfortune of upgrading to, Windows 11, and I hate it. Maybe not as much as Windows 8, but it's close. Actually, yes, I hate it that much, because by now, they should have learned not to try to reinvent the UI by removing features that people depend on.
Like the task bar, which they pretty much destroyed, forcing us to combine taskbar buttons among other things that I have blocked from my memory. And where's my Quick Launch Toolbar?? Now where you could start an app with one click, it now takes 2 or 3. And where you could see in one place all your open apps and windows, you now have to mouse over the icon to see what's open.
And what's with this crap about forcing us to use OneDrive??? The thing is like a virus, you can't get it to go away!!!!
WHY must they mess with good features and try to turn the OS into a wannabe Mac? Bring back Bill Gates, please!!!!!
I will be avoiding Windows 11 for as long as humanly possible, or at least until they realize their mistakes and revert to the original taskbar, or restore the options to configure it to work like classic Windows (98, XP, 7). Like they did when they came to their senses and backtracked in Windows 8.1. Stop messing with perfection (well not perfection, but something I could at least use)!
Hell, if some genius would finally make a Linux distro that is a true Windows replacement, where the UI works exactly like Windows (same mouse pointer feel, same opening the start menu by pressing the start button where you can start typing to search the menu, same Run command, same menus and configuration, etc.) then I might become a regular Linux user. But so far, every Linux distro I have tried is aggravating as hell to use. Even Zorin OS, which was supposed to be almost "seamless" for Windows users to use, didn't even come close to that OS, and after hours of messing with configurations, I was no closer to getting it to behave how I want then when I started.
But enough about me, what are you wearing?
</rant>
(03-22-2023, 05:36 PM)mnrvovrfc Wrote: But in the few times I've gone into Windows in the past six months and used QB64PE I didn't have these problems. I was able to use the 64-bit edition apart from the 32-bit edition.
This was all because of a single folder (for the old QB64 2.0.2) in the system path! As soon as I removed it from the path, everything started working.
(03-22-2023, 05:36 PM)mnrvovrfc Wrote: I had to use the 32-bit edition only for eoredson's SICK64, that was the only reason for it to exist. This is after one of my laptops which is over 15 years old finally had its hard drive die with WindowsXP in it.
I feel your pain. I still love and use Windows XP for various things. I have 3 different laptops running XP, and have all the system drives backed up with Clonezilla, so if an old laptop dies, I can find the same model on ebay, and restore the system! Back up, back up, back up!