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Microsoft eases switch to XP
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| February 25, 2003
Posted on 02/25/2003 8:13:03 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
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I just got Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition a week ago. MUCH better than WIndows 98, imho ...
To: MeeknMing
XP has made me a penguin advocate. Can't wait to get the other HD in this thing
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:20:04 AM PST
by
steve50
(neocons, the "new coke" of conservatives)
To: MeeknMing
Guess Bill wouldn't think of making it easier by lowering the cost, would he?
To: MeeknMing
I just got Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition a week ago. MUCH better than WIndows 98, imho ... It is better in many ways, such as a faster bootup, etc, and being more stable than 98.
But that said, when I bought my new Dell last summer, it was only offered with XP. The video card, etc. required XP drivers. I would have preferred Win2000.
I regret having bought the machine under those circumstances, and had I thought more and faster, would have told Dell to keep it.
The biggest reason is all the intrusive junk they loaded it with, like the perpetual hard sell for Microsoft Messenger (Which they had made very difficult to remove at the time.) If you have a router and/or firewall take a good look at what it is doing and you will freak. The Windows Media Player cheerfully offers to keep track of a lot of things, and is always looking for mysterious upgrades. Dell's hidden "support.exe" was hammering at the firewall at :37 past the hour constantly.
While it might be a good replacement for Win98, it has no benefits other than a terrible amount of bloat over the similarly NT-based Windows 2000.
So, I dunno. It felt it was like having a cocaine addict as a house guest- Entertaining, but you had to constantly count the silverware! :-)
As in all consumer things, your mileage may vary.
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:23:04 AM PST
by
Gorzaloon
(Contents may have settled during shipping, but this tagline contains the stated product weight.)
To: steve50
I am lacking in the lexicon. What is 'penguin' and 'HD'?...pardon my ignorance.
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:23:30 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye SADdam. You're soon to meet your buddy Stalin in Hades.)
To: MeeknMing
I didn't get it and this is why. I don't know what you do with your computer but, if you do anything, you soon learn it is a mess.
Example: Microsoft Photodraw 2000 will not run in Windows XP.
Their own program?
I didn't purchase this program with a limited life span attached to it.
What are they doing about it Nothing!!!!!!!
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:24:57 AM PST
by
chachacha
To: MeeknMing
I've had two computers with XP Professional and XP Home Edition for almost a year now and love 'em.
Much more stable than any other MS operating system I've used. I keep a third PC running Windows 98 to preserve compatibility with some children's games, a scanner and my wife's wierd obsession with WordStar.
Windows XP made networking the three computers an absolute piece of cake. Share drives, printers, easy to set access, etc. My favorite add-on for Windows is PowerDrawers from Dyanmic Karma. Couldn't live without it.
To: MeeknMing
Thank you for sharing.
What's it like working at MS anyway?
To: MeeknMing
"Penguin" is the Linux mascot, and HD is Hard Drive
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:26:19 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce; MeeknMing
"Doo bee, Doo bee, DOOO."
Beware of Penguins.
*/ joke*
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:30:57 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(<====The sky eyes are watching, and blinking for want of Visine...)
To: MeeknMing
Until I have a good reason to switch, it's Win98 for me. My computer works fine as it is- why should I spend $200 to switch to an OS that requires a firewall (yet has been sold as the most secure OS to date) and may not run some of my old programs?
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:32:06 AM PST
by
Sofa King
(-I am Sofa King- tired of liberal BS!)
To: MeeknMing; All
One of our office computers using XP has been running a fairly sophisticated engineering program for about eight months now. At first there were no problems; however, as each day goes by, the performance gets slower and slower. I have disabled all unnecessary applications running in the background, have checked for viruses, drafraged, the whole nine yards. Even with the virus software disabled, we still have poor, poor performance. Microsoft's knowledge base and free support options offer no additional suggestions. Can y'all help?
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:34:22 AM PST
by
Quilla
To: Gorzaloon
Shouldn't have gotten a Dell, Dude. When you buy a computer with a pre-installed operationg system, you're geting a crippled OS. You probably don't get a full Windows CD, and you get it installed in such a way that it only wants to support the manufacturer's hardware.
Anyone who can spare a couple of extra bucks should get their machine custom built locally by someone who's been doing it for a while, and someone who can help with glitches.
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:35:48 AM PST
by
js1138
To: Quilla
From here, it sounds like a memory leak. The occasional reboot will probably fix it.
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:36:16 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Quilla
Microsoft's knowledge base and free support options offer no additional suggestions. Can y'all help? Yeah.
Try to replace it with Win2000 or switch Operating Systems.
:]
To: MeeknMing
penguin=Linux
HD= hard drive
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:36:39 AM PST
by
steve50
(neocons, the "new coke" of conservatives)
To: MeeknMing
My non-technical wife of (very) many years has learned to hate XP and mostly uses one of my WNT or W2K machines. What does that say?
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:38:33 AM PST
by
pt17
To: ShadowAce
From here, it sounds like a memory leak. Great subject.
Speaking of memory leaks, is there software to diagnose this pesky and common irritation?
At work we run dozens of Autocad stations and the performance hits due to what I suspect are memory leaks is monumental.
No thanks to NT4, too, I suspect.
To: pt17
What does that say?
That you should get her a Mac.
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:42:43 AM PST
by
dyed_in_the_wool
(I am Jack's smirking revenge.)
To: Quilla
You are experiencing the famous "creeping death" syndrome on your PC. The only fix for it that I know of is to carefully archive all of your critical data and reformat your hard drive. If you have a system with pre-installed software then it gets a little tougher, you'll probably end up needing to load a new copy of the OS.
I got tired of going through all of these issues, which is why I switched over to Apple computers. They really do "just work".
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:43:34 AM PST
by
Billy_bob_bob
("He who will not reason is a bigot;He who cannot is a fool;He who dares not is a slave." W. Drummond)
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