Re: Not very impressed so far
From: Eli (nobody_at_anywhere.com)
Date: 07/18/04
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:34:50 -0600
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:13:50 GMT, "Kiwi" <Kiwiwannabe@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>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.
That must have been fun. I can't imagine why'd you would want to
upgrade the operating system.
>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.
You might have saved yourself some trouble by doing a little research.
A 2GB partition doesn't go very far. But disk space is so cheap these
days it's not much of a concern. I'd recommend something more along
the lines of a 10 to 20 GB partition for OS and applications. With XP
there's not a lot to be gained from partitioning the boot disk anyway,
so if you've got a single 20 or 40 or 250GB disk, just run it as your
C: drive.
>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.
Half an hour to install an operating system like XP? So long as you
don't get back to your habit of reinstalling the OS every 60 days, big
deal? I'll bet you got that Windows ME install down to such a science
that an installation just whizzed right by.
>Have managed to disable all the CPU intensive graphical effects which seemed
>to even slow down my 2GHz machine.
Most, or all of that slowdown is just a matter of perception due to
the animated effects. It obviously takes longer to slide out a menu
than to just instantly display it. Your PC isn't being slowed by
these trivial animations. I turn all of these effects off myself,
just to make the user interface snappier.
>My PC seems to for ever require reboots after downloading and installing
>critical updates.
This can't possibly be any different than with you ME system. Unless,
of course, you weren't applying the patches. XP has many more
instances where patch installs and changes to operating configuration
don't require a reboot.
>Luckily I've got broadband, don't know what I would have
>done if was still connected on my old 56k modem.
Are you complaining about the patches or having to reboot? How does
having broadband make your reboots faster?
>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.
How much memory is installed in this system? That's the one _major_
difference between XP and it's predecessors. You can run it in 256MB,
even less, but I've seen it crawl and seen programs crash on a system
with 192MB of ram. I'd recommend 512MB minimum and 1MB or more if
you're doing any serious work with large programs.
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