Re: Not very impressed so far

From: GTS (x)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 12:48:13 -0400

Are you trolling? No machine requires "a format and reinstall about once
every 2 or 3 months" unless you have no idea what you're doing and are
trashing the system. No "Network Specialist" would view sitting in front of
your PC to update an operating system as terribly onerous nor updating a
video driver as a major challenge. XP is vastly superior to ME. If you
installed it as an upgrade to an ME machine full of viruses, spyware, or
other problems it could be problematic. I suggest you seek some competent
help to get your PC set up correctly and give you some training in ongoing
maintenance. 

-- 
"Kiwi" <Kiwiwannabe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:idyKc.177$jU1.13@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...
> As a WindowsME user everyone kept telling me to upgrade to WindowsXP and
> asking why on earth I still bothered with ME. I've got an AMD Athlon
XP2000+
> 512M memory, 5 USB devices, DVD and CDRW writers. The software I mainly
use
> on this machine is Visual Studio 6.0, Outlook 2000 and Ulead Media Studio
> Pro Video editor.
>
> My WindowME machine would require a format and reinstall about once every
2
> or 3 months, so I finally decided to upgrade to WindowsXP.
>
> On the box it said 1.5G disk space require, so I already had a 2G
partition
> and all my applications where installed on another drive. After 2 days my
2G
> partition was full so had to repartition my PC and now it has a 5G
> partition.
>
> The interactive install was a pain because it meant that I had to sit in
> front of my PC for half an hour. Watching paint dry would have been more
> exciting.
>
> Detected my ATI Rage Pro 128 Ultra graphics card but installed the wrong
> drive.
>
> Have managed to disable all the CPU intensive graphical effects which
seemed
> to even slow down my 2GHz machine.
>
> My PC seems to for ever require reboots after downloading and installing
> critical updates. Luckily I've got broadband, don't know what I would have
> done if was still connected on my old 56k modem. Visual Studio has
crashed,
> Media Studio has crashed, Outlook is very slow and has also crashed, all
of
> them wanting to send information to Microsoft and who knows if they bother
> to read them.
>
> I am by no means a computer novice and  my profession is a Network
> Specialist and I install and configure OS's from Win95 -Win2K and FreeBSD,
> Linux, IRIX, Solaris and HPUX as part of my job.
>
> Am very tempted to go back to WindowsME. Would like to know if anyone has
> had similar problems and also any success stories.
>
>
>
>

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