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Sent to the US Department of Justice

Hello:

  The question and answer posted at the bottom of this message were from a programmers
news group. Take note that M$ is still engaged in the kind of action that the DOJ/M$
lawsuit was addressing and that unless stopped, all M$ OS's will eventually
incorporate this criminal content:

Interbase, a competitor of M$ in the database area uses file extensions .gdb. No one
in their right mind would track database changes with the toll M$ uses as described
below. M$ added the .gdb extension purposely to degrade Interbase performance when run
on their ME Operating System. They did not add the extensions for their own Databases.
The purpose is clearly to degrade performance of non-M$ databases to make their own
products "appear" to be better. This action on part of M$ is clearly just more
evidence to support the allegations made against M$ in the DOJ lawsuit. I consider it
criminal.

  The actions they have taken to further "their" products can cause/have caused
financial losses to developers who are using or want to use Interbase (an Open Source
Database ie FREE) as a backend for their product/s. These parties have been injured by
the actions of M$.

  Please take immediate action to stop M$ from these outrageous practices.

  Thank you.

  Robert F. Tulloch
  Munith, MI, USA 



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Question: IB too slow on ME     

I installed the IB Local in NT Server 4 and connected it to the database. In my client
PC, I
installed Win Me and ,then , installed IB Client. Through the Program, there was a
connection to the database, but the process of bringing the data took a very very long
time.
Does anybody know how to fix?? I am waiting.

Remark: With Win 98, it works fine.

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Answer:

That is because MS intentionally sabotaged IB under WinME.  Their stupid file
restorer tracks and copies .gdb files every time it is changed.  

>From the MSDN

Filelist.XML
The following list shows the contents of the System Restore FileList.XML.
Microsoft reserves the exclusive right to modify this list. Modifications from
sources other than Microsoft will not be supported. The file list includes
extensions which System Restore will monitor changes to, under the <include>
tag, as well as files and directories which System Restore will not monitor and
restore, under the <exclude> tag.

MS added .gdb as a tracked extension to the include section of FileList.xml. 
Why you would track a database file is beyond me.  You will notice that neither
mdb nor the MSSQL extension are added, only Interbase's default extension.

The file in question is the FileList.xml located in the
c:\windows\system\restore.  Open it and remove the gdb entry in the includes
section and reboot.  This should solve things.  If it doesn't turn the System
Restore totally off.

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From M$ ME NG

God you're a paranoid wanker.

They don't put mdb in as a ignore file type and system restore will delete
their own databases. Perhaps you could tell the DOJ that they broke their
own DB as well.

The answer here is to put it in MyDocs and this will prob work for IB as
well.