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XP and a New Puter ... It's a Whole New World ...WOW
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| mercy
Posted on 01/01/2002 4:11:47 PM PST by mercy
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To: mercy
Congrats! I've been using XP for many months, way back to Release Candidate 1, and love it. Hardcore geeks gripe about the pretty interface but I love the smooth new high-tech look.
I like the Sony VAIO computers, too. A little pricey, but good machines. And you'll LOVE the flat panel monitor. SO much easier on the eyes.
MM
To: airedale
Much thanks. Boy this little vanity is sure taking off. Have to bookmark for later digestion and implementation. Good info. Thanks thanks thanks.
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posted on
01/01/2002 4:37:29 PM PST
by
mercy
To: mercy
Same thing happened to me this year. Day after Christmas, I went to CompUSA to get a video card for my kid's computer so it would run the video games I got them for Christmas. I took a look at some of those new XP PCs and next thing I knew, I was walking out the door with one. I put the video card back on the shelf and gave my old computer to the kids instead!
For three years, I have been running a 400MHz box with 128MB of RAM, a 13Gig hard drive and Windows98. Despite Windows crashing several times a day, I learned to live with it and used the rebooting time to grab myself another beer out of the refrigerator. See, I got locked into a "comfort zone." Had no intention of buying a new PC and in fact, was contemplating buying a bigger hard drive and keeping the PC running for another year.
Well this new PC is utterly mindblowing. For less than half the price I paid for my old computer (which was top-of-the-line at the time), I got a 1.7GHz processer with 512MB of RAM and a 80Gig hard drive. Furthermore, it has a CD-RW drive, a DVD drive, six USB ports including two on the space-age keyboard, firewire ports all over the place and a network card built in. Oh yeah, and it has this optical mouse as well that doesn't need a mousepad. It took me maybe five minutes to learn how to burn a CD and I have no idea how I lived without the ability to burn my own CDs!
When I brought it home, XP immediately recognized my monitor and printer and installed the proper drivers for them. It automatically recognized my home network, configured my Internet connection and prompted me to make a floppy so that the other PC could share the Internet connection!
Most importantly, I've had this PC running for about a week now and it hasn't crashed once. Hasn't even shown a hint of crashing. This Windows XP is rock solid. In fact, I'm probably going to run out and get a copy of XP for my old computer as well.
I've been building my own computers for the past seven years. This is my first pre-built computer since my big mistake with a Packard-Bell back in 1995. Computers have come a long way since I built my last system three years ago. If you are on the fence of upgrading, the deals have never been better and the difference between a modern PC and one of two or three years ago is phenomenal.
To: mercy
I've gotten a couple of computers from Dell recently, and there's nothing wrong with them that I can see. I'm not complaining that their prices are dropping, either. But congratulations on your new computer.
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posted on
01/01/2002 4:38:29 PM PST
by
Cicero
To: Howlin
Yes, I heard the same stuff. (we need not wonder where) I DID kick the RAM up to the max 512. Can't have too much ram, ey? (those girls you're talking about would be thinking shoes rather than RAM, no? Or handbags)
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posted on
01/01/2002 4:41:19 PM PST
by
mercy
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To: Howlin
I cannot help it; other women my age are looking at drapes and curtains; I'm eyeballing RAM and gigabytes
ROTFL! Me too...
I hated WinME. I had nothing but trouble with it.
Win98 SE was okay, but I love trying new stuff! I have never had any problems since installing XP
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posted on
01/01/2002 4:42:20 PM PST
by
firewalk
To: mercy
XP is very cool. I was a little apprehensive but jumped right in to it and love it. I hate going to windows 98 machines now so I will have to upgrade my entire work!
Yes, you can transfer the stuff easily. First go to IE on the old computer and export your bookmarks to floppy or CDR. Then put the disk in the new machine, open IE and import the files. (all under the file menu of IE). The one big difference with ie 6 is that you can't put your links directly on the toolbar (at least as far as I can tell) so you have to put them in a folder called 'links' inside your favorites folder. They will appear on a drop down menu on ie6
To: SamAdams76
They use the NT kernel to run XP. That's why it's so stable.
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posted on
01/01/2002 4:44:13 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
To: mercy
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To: airedale
Get the patches for XP especially the one for the Universal Plug and Play ASAP then go to GRC.com and download their utility to turn off the universal plug and play feature. Can't stress enough the importance of those patches!!!
I use Win ME and learned that UPnP is installed also...it's been there, but the Manufacturer had the option of turning it on...Mine apparantly did. Sooo...I installed Black Ice.
Interesting, the majority of scans now are HTTP attacks looking for the XP security hole. Six months ago, they were Net scans looking for already installed Trojans/Spyware.
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posted on
01/01/2002 4:45:46 PM PST
by
Lael
To: SamAdams76
Ditto to ALL that. And just think ... we have done our part for the economy ... well, some of our part. I think I need to look at those new 4 door Dodge Pickups as well.
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posted on
01/01/2002 4:45:51 PM PST
by
mercy
To: BeforeISleep
Dang it.......you're pushing me over the edge!
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posted on
01/01/2002 4:46:05 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: mercy
we have done our part for the economy *Rolling my eyes*
Lame, friend, totally lame!
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posted on
01/01/2002 4:47:23 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: Bogey78O
Yep, I'm certified in NT so I'm aware. I've been using NT at work for four years and to my knowledge, the server hasn't had to be rebooted once. I'm glad that Microsoft is finally putting this kernel into their consumer OS's. I think they didn't before because they wanted to keep supporting all that old DOS software.
To: Howlin
Dang it.......you're pushing me over the edge!
Not me...
go for it...go for it...go for it (-;
lol!
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posted on
01/01/2002 4:49:01 PM PST
by
firewalk
To: Lael
YIKES! Maybe I better log off and go take care of bidniz.
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posted on
01/01/2002 5:03:50 PM PST
by
mercy
To: airedale
Thanks for the link to GRC.com's plug n pray. I just downloaded it and turned off my p&p.
To: Semper911
Ah HAH! I knew there had to be a reason and I knew some smart FReeper would tell me what it was. Thanks.
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posted on
01/01/2002 5:08:45 PM PST
by
mercy
To: mercy
Nope but I'll tag a couple questions of my own to your thread. Got a brand new computer for my wife. 1.8 gigahertz, 512 mB ram, 80G hard drive, DVD/CD RW and Win XP. That's one cool machine and my wife loves it. I'm still happy with my system running Win ME.
Anyway, everytime my wife cuts her computer off and back on the clock displays the wrong time. We've tried resetting it and setting it to update via internet, checked proper time zones etc- no dice.
The other thing: The little icon on the tray that shows you're connected to the internet has gone missing. When my wife's finished surfing she can't figure out how to disconnect and she has to let it time out or shut down. Can anybody tell me how to get that little icon back and how to get the clock to show the proper time and date?
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