Win 7 runs great for me on my laptop, other than that I had to install my RTL8187 Netcard drivers in Vista compatibility mode. I tried to install them in normal mode, but the drivers complained about not being installed on Vista, so they refused to work at all. Other than that, (and the fact that Daemon Tools will not install no matter what I do to get it to do so, and that the makers won't fix it for a 'beta level' OS) Win 7 kicks all sorts of Vista butt... If Vista had a butt, that is. Just my 2 cents, keep the change.

Some say that ignorance is bliss... Blissful, aren't they?

The wobbly windows sort of remind me of playing with Jell-O. Though, hopefully less messy. And no, I don't play with jell-o, the effects simply give me that impression. It'd be interesting if MS would include functionality similar to this in Vista. It might be useful to be able to switch between virtual desktops as smoothly as that. I know I'd use them more if that were the case.

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Josh Gray wrote:

The question was "Does multithreading make a program faster?" You have not addressed the issue of speed at all. Think about the effect of having multiple cpu's in a machine and multiple non-interrelated tasks to perform.

Then based on what I said above, it really does depend on the application. Not only that, it depends on how the code is written, and whether the coder multi-threaded the right areas of the application. Using my text editor from above as an example, you conceivably could multi-thread it, it would most likely run just fine. But as far as being faster... In that particular case, I'd have to say no. The reason being you'd be writing more code to accomplish the same ends, and as such, you're forcing the computer to do more than is needed to do a simple task. This applies whether there is one processor, or 64,000 processors. In the end of it all though, whether or not an application is faster if it's multi-threaded truly does depend on whether that application would be appropriate for being written to take advantage of multi-threading. In which case, I'd say yes it would be faster, or at the very least, more efficient. Thank you again for your time. ArchKaine Some say that ignorance is bliss... Blissful, aren't they?

Jeremy Falcon wrote:

Yeah, but at least we entertained a few people.

Chuckle, yeah, that you did. Have fun ;) Some say that ignorance is bliss... Blissful, aren't they?

Good day gentlemen. Can we say "Way off topic"? Additionally, getting insulting in a forum is just plain silly. Now, a (hopefully) good response to the interview question posted above would be something along the lines of: A multi-threaded application would not be appropriate for applications that that would not take full advantage of the flexibility imparted by running in a multi-threaded environment. EG, a basic text editor has no need of multi-threading. But, a 3D game that is graphically intensive would very likely benefit from a careful usage of background multi-threaded routines. Also, multi-threading can keep the UI of an application responsive while handling long background tasks, such as burning CDs or DVDs, re-encoding, decoding, or otherwise converting from one file type or music/image/movie format to another, and so on. Thank you for your time, and have a pleasant day, ArchKaine Some say that ignorance is bliss... Blissful, aren't they?

I think that what I need is a code snippet, know of any good places to get that? Reason being is I learn better by having something to emulate. I'm still learning how to implement various classes. I'll post the code that I have so far, when I am able, so that you can all have something to chuckle at :) Thanks for the help :) Brian Turner Some say that ignorance is bliss... Blissful, aren't they?

I would place this code into the MdiParent, right? Something tells me that that's the only logical place to put it, but I wanted to be sure. Thanks again :) Brian Turner

To be more specific, I need the code for a text editor / RTF editor that I'm working on and I'm more than a little bit new at this coding thing, so I'm not too certain as to where to look for good clean snippets that provide the functionality that I need. I'd try to write the code myself, but I have at the moment a lack of two things: Time, since I've joined the Naval Reserve, and am studying a lot - and appropriate knowledge, since C# is essentially my first programming language since the "good ol' days" of Level 2 BASIC (anyone out there remember that one?). Anyhoo, any help than you can all provide would be greatly appreciated. Specific functionality that I'm trying to implement, but haven't found a clue to: Global search and replace among all documents in an MDI environment. Specific search and replace on a per-document basis. Undo/redo functionality for both of the previous cases would also be good. Thanks in advance for any help, and if you provide code, you'll be appropriately credited :) B Turner Some say that ignorance is bliss... Blissful, aren't they?