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What's wrong with Windows XP? What's all the negativity around about?
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| ali92 |
| Why are a lot of people around here putting down Windows XP? Is 2000 REALLY THAT good? I've been noticing that WinXP is VERY underated around here and I'd LOVE to know WHY... |
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| Damo |
i have XP Pro. and i'm happy with it. it utilizes your ram more efficiently than any other OS and if you run too many progs and you get all slow and ghey then XP has the highest quality alt/ctrl/del menu. it runs so smoothly and you'll never get a blue screen. i've yet to get one in the months I've had it.
the only knock against it when it first came out is it lacked compatibility with some programs and users got annoyed, but most products have been upgraded sufficiently since then. my friend has ME and i've been on his comp quite a bit, and XP is simply better. |
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| yujie__ |
| i like it. had no problems what so ever. if u read to many horror stories about it, it is because those people are computer illiterate. |
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| CLuver? |
I can't get it to work on my machine, i suspect a hardware incompatibility, and i have a 1.2ghz athlon machine with most parts less than a year old. So that sucks.
The main problems i hear are alot of incompatibility with hardware and software, like games etc, and ESPECIALLY burning related - everyone seems to have probs in that department. And also i heard that there are some big security holes in XP which hackers are working on... |
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| TeKnoHe@d2025 |
| Yeah, I like XP alot. The design is really nice and it's way better than that buggy ass Windows 98 that I was stuck with for too long. |
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| Damo |
| quote: | Originally posted by CLuver?
The main problems i hear are alot of incompatibility with hardware and software, like games etc, and ESPECIALLY burning related - everyone seems to have probs in that department. And also i heard that there are some big security holes in XP which hackers are working on... |
yeah, there can be buring problems if you use older software. I got Adaptec's lastest Roxio burner and my 24x sony works like a charm.
the security hole is relatively unknown but it does exist , tho only someone extremely 1337 would use it , so your irrelevant ass home computer won't be touched..... for a while.it's the Universal Plug and Play hack, and there's a site you can go to that lets you close that up and goes on about how microsoft is for not telling anyone about it. |
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| trance[]control-fan |
| so far XP has been so stable...i dont have to reboot for a week or more... |
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| biznology |
i dont have XP, i actually have a copy of 2k that i have yet to install - dont wanna lose my music on accident!
im running 98, and it has its issues. my main beef with XP is just that its typical Microsoft. sure, everythings integrated and all that, but it also requires 256MB+ memory to run, and has all that multimedia integration crap that isnt really necessary if you know how to set up 98...its really just a ploy to make people buy faster processors and more memory.
as for whoever said people that dont like XP are computer illiterate - i would argue the opposite. i have problems occasionally, but i know how to deal with them, and they are never huge. i look at XP like i look at Macs after the new Explorer i have on here. i checked the wrong button somewhere and now all the movies pop up in some tiny ass, annoying window in another window and i cant control them. its just some dumb ass programmer thinking im an idiot who cant control Media Player, so i need Windows to do it for me. thats ing annoying.
sorry, im not defensive, i just got off on a tangent! basically i dont give a ...my OS runs fine, isnt a mac - and anyone who is 'supposedly' computer literate woldnt be running Windows in the first place...late/ |
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| tiesto14 |
| quote: | Originally posted by biznology
and anyone who is 'supposedly' computer literate woldnt be running Windows in the first place...late/ |
i have heard tha before...why is that..if u can exlain...i am curious..and so i can look cool when i talk about computers to my friends..LOL....so why are Macs better then windows etcc??????
thanks Biz |
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| biznology |
| quote: | Originally posted by tiesto14
i have heard tha before...why is that..if u can exlain...i am curious..and so i can look cool when i talk about computers to my friends..LOL....so why are Macs better then windows etcc??????
thanks Biz |
well it depends what you call computer literate. i believe i understand enought about computers to consider myself computer literate. but then when you talk to some CS major, im prolly an idiot cause i dont run my own linux server and all that . basically it just depends how full of yourself you are, what kind/speed/etc you run, and who you ask.
then again artists wouldnt be caught dead using something other than a Mac cause thats what theyre built for nowadays. i could never understand why they would make a computer where you had to reboot to solve problems, or send it in to the factory tho...go figure/ |
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| rockster77 |
i have win xp pro on disk. i'm debating whether to install it or not. i am currently running win2000 pro. should i install win xp with on my current system?
my system:
amd k6 533
192 MB SDRAM
FSB 100 MHz
do i have enough memory and cpu power/speed? |
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| ali92 |
| quote: | Originally posted by CLuver?
I can't get it to work on my machine, i suspect a hardware incompatibility, and i have a 1.2ghz athlon machine with most parts less than a year old. So that sucks.
The main problems i hear are alot of incompatibility with hardware and software, like games etc, and ESPECIALLY burning related - everyone seems to have probs in that department. And also i heard that there are some big security holes in XP which hackers are working on... |
My machine is an 800 Mhz Celeron that I bought brand new on 2001/09/17 and it functions fine with WinXP but, it's a little slow due to my lousy 128 MB of RAM. It used to have ME but, I Installed XP on 2001/12/23 and it works fine.
BURNING PROGRAMMES: NO problem here. Most (all?) burning programmes are upgraded fully by now to run on XP. I just don't see what teh problem is here... What burning programmes are you using that are giving you trouble? |
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