[Info-vax] OpenVMS versus Windows/GE Telemetry Control Systems.

[Paul Sture]

In article <50f69e75$0$6087$e4fe514c at dreader36.news.xs4all.nl>,
 MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 16-jan-2013 9:44, David Froble wrote:
> 
> > [Y]ou got things such as autorun which attempt to do things
> > without much user interaction.

I though MS had disabled autorun but from what I see the first time you 
insert a CD/DVD or USB stick on Windows 7 or 8, you get a prompt 
offering to enable it.  This is a per account setting in an out of the 
box configuration, so add a new account and you get the chance to enable 
it again.
 
> Now that you mention that, what in Windows is with much user
> interaction actually?  (Not including all those /colorful/ nags,
> mea culpa, 'prompts' and 'pop-ups'.)  The greatest verbosity in
> Windows is in the form of those 'blue screens', but they don't
> usually last very long on the screen.  (I guess some people are
> prepared and have a camera ready and in hand reach...)

Even with the (hah!) recommended setting of auto-updates switched on, 
you get nagged about installing the currently daily antivirus updates.

I haven't see a BSOD since I started using Windows 7 because nowadays 
Windows tries to catch them and generate an event log entry instead.

At one point I had to switch on BSOD reporting to see what the real 
error was, and it turned out to be a network driver that needed 
updating.  That piece of information wasn't readily accessible in the 
event log entries was there plain as day in the BSOD.

-- 
Paul Sture