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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 05, 2003, 11:01:51 AM

Title: You know it\'s the best.
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 05, 2003, 11:01:51 AM: I\'m in love with XP. Do you remember when I asked u about installing in my aunt\'s pc XP with PIII 500 and 128 ram? Well, I formatted this asfernoon his HDD because it was wrong lately. I began to install again W98 and hundreds of errors appeared after rebooting. Wrong drivers, searching necessary files, etc... I had no sound, no modem, no graphic card... a disaster. I had the driver disks but it seemed to don\'t like them.

I went back home and picked up XP disk. Formatted again and it now runs perfectly. And when I say perfectly, I mean perfectly. Programmes run fast and withour problem, it starts incredibly quick, no single driver problem, everything automatic and without an interruption... guys, this is an OS.

All you with a PIII and 128 ram can install XP because it runs as good as in my 2800 512 ram.

BTW, when the pc starts, in the msdos screen yet, a msg tells me that the system tried to start for 3 times and was not able so it says it\'s running at safe speed. I know it had 3 years ago the same problem and after changing something in the bios setup it was fixed. I can\'t remember what\'s the problem... with ram I\'m sure... do you what setting must I change?
Title: You know it\'s the best.
Post by: Blade on August 05, 2003, 01:16:14 PM: XP is great.

The only real problems I\'ve experienced are compatibility with certain games and apps.. and one disturbing feature (or lack thereof) that can be fixed with a simple REG file. I like what Microsoft did with this OS..

It\'s good that they made it flexible.. ready for novices, but tweakable for advanced users. Mine is set up almost exactly like Windows 98, eheh.. that\'s my comfort zone..
Title: You know it\'s the best.
Post by: THX on August 05, 2003, 05:52:03 PM: Though XP is their best OS to date, Windows still has wacky problems when networking.
Title: You know it\'s the best.
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on August 06, 2003, 04:48:53 AM: yep, when i setup my network, not running through a switch, just a cross over cable.. I did it with it\'s own network setup disks, had all teh workgroups the same etc. I also wanted to share the net, normally u setup the host machine first, then the slave.. Well this network didn\'t like that.
It would allow me to link to the other machine, play games etc, but not share the net. So i did it all backwards, the slave then the host. It works perfect now. It\'s the first time i ever had that problem.
Title: You know it\'s the best.
Post by: ooseven on August 06, 2003, 04:53:38 AM: Running Windows 2000 would of went for XP but i wanted something rock solid, and i have to say i am very very very very happy with 2000.

Like the way that if something dose crash (and its very rare) it will do its best to make sure that everything else don\'t come down like a house of cards *coff*Win 98 *coff *.
Title: You know it\'s the best.
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 06, 2003, 08:45:15 AM: I\'ve to say that I\'m very happy, even though there is those network problems.
Title: You know it\'s the best.
Post by: Kurt Angle on August 06, 2003, 09:08:49 AM: I upgraded from windows 95 about 2 months ago and the improvement is immense.
Title: You know it\'s the best.
Post by: JBean on August 06, 2003, 09:56:22 AM: xp hasn\'t crashed on me once in the 8+ months of having it. Sure some programs crash from time to time, but I never have a system crash....ever

(wonders when the first will happen :))
Title: You know it\'s the best.
Post by: SwifDi on August 06, 2003, 12:52:28 PM: XP in the hizzy. It\'s had some "60 seconds til restart" error windows, but thats bout it. Good stuff.
Title: You know it\'s the best.
Post by: ooseven on August 07, 2003, 12:03:40 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Adan
I\'ve to say that I\'m very happy, even though there is those network problems.

Thats why i op\'ed for 2000... me and my borther do LAN partyes you see. :D.

Woot.
Title: You know it\'s the best.
Post by: PS2_-'_'-_PS2 on August 17, 2003, 02:09:14 AM: Ive had Explorerer.exe fail on me a few times - im worried about that since ive only had the comp for a bout 6 months.