Re: Not very impressed so far
From: JAX (slipslide_at_pop.not)
Date: 07/19/04
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 19:39:16 -0700
That may mean a clean install and I don't think he has the patience for such
an inconvenience. After all, when one installs an OS, they have to sit there
and look at the screen for the larger part of an hour....Right??? <grin>
Cheers, JAX
"Crusty "Old B@stard"" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uZpw1$PbEHA.1356@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Being a network specialist, and having to configure many computers, you
mean
> to tell everyone here that you have never worked with a computer that had
> Windows XP installed upon it?
>
> I would tend to doubt that a network specialist has never seen the
operating
> system, and had a chance to work with it. Given that doubt, I also will
say
> that you know what the system is capable of, under varying configurations.
>
> That being the case, you just screwed up in installing XP onto your own
> computer.
>
> Guess you better go back to WinME (-:
>
> --
> Regards:
>
> Richard Urban
>
> aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
>
>
> "Kiwi" <Kiwiwannabe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:idyKc.177$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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