Exactly what do you have against Windows XP?

[Chuck58]

I switched to xp in January -- generic computer, 1.2 Athlon, 512 RAM, and haven't looked back. I formatted my hard drive and did a clean install. Everything works perfectly. It boots faster and, running 24/7, I have yet to have to reboot, something I had to do with 98SE at least every other day, usually daily.

The only problem I've found is that xp won't read my floppy drive. I haven't used the floppy in ages anyway. Everything goes to CD.

I have xp home. My wife has xp pro. Both are great and every piece of software we have works -- except my Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe game (DOS, I think 1993). Since going to FS2004, I don't miss it -- errrr, much. XP and 2000 are the best OS's Micro$oft has put out. I'd recommend them over anything but Linux and maybe the Mac OSX.

[Chi_San]

Floppy Drive... What's that? :p I use ZIP disks or CD, or even better, Network drives.

[Chuck58]

The floppy drive is the thing that, when I had 98SE, I kept all my work on. It all goes to CD now and, fortunately, my laptop will read the floppies and whatever needs to be printed can be done on it.

I understand the 3 1/4 disc is going extinct soon and I much prefer saving to CD anyway. Other than the floppy disc problem and the Mickey Mouse firewall that comes with it, I'm sold on XP.

[KnightStryker]

I was given a copy of XP about a month ago and useing ME at the time i had to reboot at least 10 or more times a day for some unknown reason. So I figured what the heck ill try it (afterall it was free). saved everything to cd and wiped the drive clean and did a clean install. Everything worked beyond belief. i have only had to reboot once in the last month. Only had two problems, First i set it up with two accounts one for me one for the wife. Both were administrator accounts and no matter what i did i had to install things in both accounts to get them to work right like my sound card and graphics card.
So deleted the wifes account and viola' problem fixed (although I get the daily thrashing over the ever changing aircraft wallpapers  ;D ).
Other problem was i bought a new GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 128mb AGP card and had to not only update the drivers but also had to update the MoBo drivers and AGP slot drivers to get it to work. OF course only the drivers for the card were an XP issue and that wasn't that big a deal. I guess what im really saying is I know that alot of people have some major gripes about XP but it comes down to each persons experience with it, mine has been an awesome improvement over my ME problems and i wouldn't go back for anything. Anyways i say go ahead and try it, if it is bad for you  then you can always go back to the older version. Good luck

[Lurch]

.....useing ME at the time i had to reboot at least 10 or more times a day for some unknown reason.

If I had to explain what I thought of ME I would get banned from these forums for the inappropriate language lol,but seriously,it's just because ME is a piece of junk.Also,what I have heard,and I don't know how true it is,is that MS sold either the Alpha/Beta of XP and just labeled it as ME,thats why it's so useless,but,like I say,I don't know how true that is,but it is fairly believable.lol.
XP is definately the way to go in my opinion.

[Hogans_Alley]

Presently I have WIN98SE in my PC and it has served me fairly well - except that I believe WIN98SE will handle only up to 512M of RAM without causing "Out of Memory" warning, has something to do with the VCache. If, I can get more RAM (up to 1 GIg) using the 98SE, I will stay with it.  I'm upgrading my PC and am contemplating buying and loading WINxp. Is this a necessary cost-effective move?

Hogans Alley

[Lurch]

98SE is fairly good,but with the new machine you should go with XP.

XP is very good if you tweak it propery.
Go to these sites for plenty of good tweaks:
http://www.tweakxp.com/
http://www.mods4me.com

[4_Series_Scania]

[quote]

Presently I have WIN98SE in my PC and it has served me fairly well - except that I believe WIN98SE will handle only up to 512M of RAM without causing "Out of Memory" warning, has something to do with the VCache. If, I can get more RAM (up to 1 GIg) using the 98SE, I will stay with it.

[Scottler]

At one point or another, I've had to use every version of Windows, with the exception of ME.

I've used 3.1.1, 95, 98, 98SE, and now XP.

I have to say, I've had no problems whatsoever with XP, and I find it extremely user friendly.  I was even able to set up a LAN at home with 2 XP boxes in about 10 minutes!

Especially since I use 95 at work (not my choice, I'm stuck with it), I'm very happy to go home and use XP.  

Definitely has my recommendation!

[nickle]

XP has performed much better than any of the Dos based windows OS's for me.  I much prefer it to 98SE.
Some initial problems with drivers but they should be updated periodically anyway.  MS has an upgrade compatability check and it might help.  
On another computer with Abit BE-6 MB and Highpoint HDD controller gave installation problems because Highpoint will not issue XP driver.  I used their beta version from the net (not from their site) and system works ok.  Others used the W2K driver.  The problem is not the OS but Highpoint.

[Lurch]

Especially since I use 95 at work (not my choice, I'm stuck with it

WOW Hyperion,it must be like going back to the stoneage every morning at work.lol.

[Scottler]

Yes, it is.  And if that's not bad enough, the computer that has 95 on it only has 64mb of RAM!  

[Lurch]

64MB of RAM,damn,my video card has more RAM than that.lol.I can guarentee I would have thrown that computer out one of the Windows (pun intended.lol) long ago.

[Scottler]

Not sure what I was thinking when I said it had 64 mb of RAM.

I realized on my way into the office this morning that it's only got 24...for real.

I know most of you won't believe this, so I'm going to post a screen of it.

Shocking, I know.



ROFL....and people ask why I hate my job.

[GeForce]

You think that's bad. My old PC running on Win95 had 8mb RAM. Beat that. It was DIMM too :-/