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BIOS problem helpmeplz
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I like the way they simply skipped over Win9. Like they're trying to get some distance between Microsoft and Win8.
 (January 21, 2015 at 4:55 pm)Davka Wrote: I like the way they simply skipped over Win9. Like they're trying to get some distance between Microsoft and Win8. Everyone knows that every other consumer release of Windows sucks donkey cock. Vista - sucks donkey cock 7 - decent 8 - sucks donkey cock 8.1 - doesn't quite suck donkey cock Maybe they're just superstitious?  (January 21, 2015 at 4:55 pm)Davka Wrote: I like the way they simply skipped over Win9. Like they're trying to get some distance between Microsoft and Win8. The actual reason appears to be related to Windows 95/98. Many old applications would check for the Windows version by reading "Windows 9" and not bothering to check the next digit. That could present some very... interesting issues if anyone attempted to install one of those old programs on Windows 9, so MS decided that as unlikely as it was, it was better to just avoid it altogether. It's not often that MS sees a potential train wreck coming, so that was a good idea. They may have other train wrecks in store, but no one will worry that your WordPerfect 3 install disks will cause Windows to have a seizure.
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January 21, 2015 at 5:21 pm
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2015 at 5:31 pm by pocaracas.)
The way I heard it tell, they skipped win 9, because some apps search for win 95/98 by looking for "win 9", hence the old fashion moniker "win 9x"...
That could mess up the version comparisons...so they skipped. It's not the first time they do it. (January 21, 2015 at 5:20 pm)Tonus Wrote:(January 21, 2015 at 4:55 pm)Davka Wrote: I like the way they simply skipped over Win9. Like they're trying to get some distance between Microsoft and Win8. I'm not convinced. They could easily refer to the OS as "Windows ix" in the underlying code, if this were the only reason for the change. But then I'm fairly certain the MS motto is "be evil." (January 21, 2015 at 5:20 pm)Tonus Wrote:(January 21, 2015 at 4:55 pm)Davka Wrote: I like the way they simply skipped over Win9. Like they're trying to get some distance between Microsoft and Win8. There's some truth to it. IIRC (I do Unix software dev, not Windows), the native windows API to retrieve the OS version returns the version as an ordinal, not a string. However, if you get the OS name/version in java, it comes from the system properties as a string (as seen in the link above). 1. Don't do that. 2. You don't need to do that. If you think you do, you're almost certainly wrong.  
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PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---  (January 20, 2015 at 7:22 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: The other problem is that I can't access my BIOS, reason being that the Acer splash screen, which is the first screen I should see, literally comes and goes too fast for my fleshy human synapses to respond to, even with the most furious keypounding. Every source I've searched for help on this suggests altering the boot order in the BIOS, but my window of opportunity to do this can be measured in milliseconds. It is, in fact, so brief that most of the time, I don't even see it. I have found virtually no information on this issue anywhere (everything I've seen on the subject involved problems with GPU installation, and that is not the issue I am dealing with), and I'm not terribly knowledgeable about computers to start with.Press and hold 2 or three buttons (or just one) before powering on, and continue holding until you come to, hopefully, a stuck-key error screen which will then allow you to enter BIOS. Alternatively, press your set-up button (del, F2, F10, whatever it is) reportedly starting from the time you turn on the PC, not from when you see the screen pop-up. Your monitor may lag when it switches on and adjusts its resolution meaning the splash-screen can only partially be seen towards the end of the diagnostics.
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