Re: Not very impressed so far
From: JAX (slipslide_at_pop.not)
Date: 07/18/04
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:26:53 -0700
I have installed XP Pro on 2 machines(separate licenses) with no problem I
could ever blame on XP, except for 1 device driver I took from WUD. The 1st
was with an AMD XP 1700+. I bought XP in Feb. after it was released in Oct.
My current machine in running on a P4 3.2.
Both installs were, however, clean installs. Comparing your experience to
mine, and posts in the NG's, I would have to believe, either you upgraded to
an OS that already had unresolved problems or you have some XP
non-compatible hardware or software.
Note, I am only a PC hobbyist so, my success is not due to my superior
knowledge. Since you object to even installing a driver, I know you won't
like my suggestion, but here it is; Make sure all of your hardware is XP
compatible and do a clean install of XP.
FWIW, JAX
"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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