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can your windows

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:47 am
by darksmaster923
can your windows xp do this? i didnt think so.
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just like ubuntu's cube. kinda

Re: can your windows

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:45 am
by Allanon
Yes it can! CLICK HERE FOR INFO!

There is also Cube Desktop.

Re: can your windows

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:52 am
by darksmaster923
aw....
thats quite a bit of icons on your desktop.

Re: can your windows

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:16 am
by Allanon
darksmaster923 wrote:thats quite a bit of icons on your desktop.
I am always trying new demo applications and games but never seem to erase them from my system. Every few months I just wipe my drive and start fresh. I keep all my important data on a separate hard drive and I have a disk image with Windows XP, drivers, and essential programs already installed. I just wipe the drive and write the disk image which doesn't even take as long as installing Window XP.

Re: can your windows

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:25 pm
by darksmaster923
cube desktop is awesome!

Re: can your windows

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:07 pm
by MakerOfGames
Allanon wrote:
darksmaster923 wrote:thats quite a bit of icons on your desktop.
I am always trying new demo applications and games but never seem to erase them from my system. Every few months I just wipe my drive and start fresh. I keep all my important data on a separate hard drive and I have a disk image with Windows XP, drivers, and essential programs already installed. I just wipe the drive and write the disk image which doesn't even take as long as installing Window XP.

Every few months you wipe your hard drive and install an image of it? That might be causing an excess amount of wear on the drive and shorten its lifespan. I don't know by how much, but the more you read/write from a drive, the shorter its lifespan. Doing that much data so regularly might really kill the drive before it would have normally died under "normal" use. Just letting you know incase you didn't already.

Re: can your windows

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:07 pm
by Allanon
That might be causing an excess amount of wear on the drive and shorten its lifespan.
I have been doing it for about 3 years now and the drive hasn't failed yet. And if it does I won't lose any of my data because that is stored on a separate drive which I back up regularly. I don't think installing a drive image would cause anymore stress on a drive than watching a long movie or playing a game that has a lot of long load screens. The writing of the image to the drive is just like writing a large file to the drive.