Microsoft, very annoying.

[Guest]

[LeoniAquila]

Installed an antique program to view a picture format that I haven't seen before. To run the program, ntvdm.exe from Microsoft (I'm running XP) was started - according to Google search it's needed to run old programs.

Guess what happened when I had closed the picture viewer, and also uninstalled it? I'll tell you; Microsoft's ntvdm.exe was still running, and this wasn't enough - it insisted on getting Internet access. Why on earth would such a program has to access the internet? It's typical Microsoft, like explorer.exe and svchost.exe that wants access all the time. Very annoying. I don't care if it's white listed, as long as it doesn't need access to perform a Windows update, it shouldn't even try to "hijack" IE or Firefox.

/LA

[Ragwing]

NTVDM(NT Virtual Dos Machine) is complete sh*t and does nothing good.

If you want to run old games and applications you should try the DOS emulator, DOSBox, it's good for running old games and applications.

DOSBox:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

I use it myself and it's very good for emulating old DOS programs.
I've only used it for games tho, but you might try it.


Ragwing

[LeoniAquila]

Why is it so bad?

Thanks for the tip, though I'll never use that old image viewer again. Also, I didn't even realize how old it was, until it was too late and ntvdm had already started.

/LA

[Ragwing]

Why is it so bad?

It's supposted to run DOS applications, but most of them won't run with NTVDM.
NTVDM will just display some error message and close...


Ragwing

[Japo]

Nothing comes near DOSBox for emulating a DOS virtual machine, not even installing DOS on Virtual PC.

[LeoniAquila]

OK, I see.

Anyway, really annoying that every MS application (like the one mentioned, svchost, explorer...) tries to steal band width, spy or whatever its intention is. It's unbelievable. A quick access once in a while to check for updates, that's OK, but I really don't like the behavior of ntvdm.exe. As well as many other non-MS programs...

LA

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