ShadowPool

Ya... it is a little bit of work. Windows is like how many 10's of millions of lines of code? If I could just snap my fingers and have an OS on a cd on the desk in front of me, I would want it to be open source, have a completely encrypted file system, a built in perfect heuristic antivirus, and have a beautiful and extremely usable and speedy GUI. It should be able to emulate windows API's and open EXE files flawlessly as well as be able to run linux apps.

Why can't microsoft start making at least SOME open source software? That way they could build up a great community and finally get some high quality stuff out there. I think this is firefoxs only advantage over IE right now.... firefox has a bunch of great extensions and themes... and IE... IE just gets you viruses and spyware!

I use ClamAV for windows. The virus scannner doesn't have on accsess scanning, but it hardly uses any resources at all. ClamAV tends to get 3 or 4 updates every day! It's also open source which makes it 10x cooler... Hmm... I am logged into my admin acct right now! I guess i'm guilty of lazyness! You can still install things on user accts in linux though! So I won't be getting online on my root acct any time soon...

Hi there! I learned MASM32 about 2 years ago and I can't stop writing programs with it yet! It's best to learn by trying things yourself, so you might want to start by installing and setting up the tools you will need. First, download the MASM32 compiler MASM32 and install it to C:\masm32. Then download RadASM and unzip it to C:\RadASM. RadASM is an integrated development enviroment or IDE. An IDE makes it easier to pass parameters to the compiler and organizes your programming projects so you can develop applications faster and with less headache. After you have masm32 and RadASM installed, you might want to download a copy of the Windows API Documentation. Unzip the help file and put it into C:\RadASM\help. You can then open up radasm and go to help>win32 api, and the help file will open. To get started with learning how to write a windows application in Masm32, you will want to read Iczelion's Win32 Assembly Tutorials and this RadASM tutorial. The RadASM tutorial is meant for people switiching from VisualBasic. If you get stuck on something, the best place to go is the Masm32 Forum. I find the people at that forum very mature and helpful! Good Luck!!!!