Re: XP versus 95

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wdflannery@xxxxxxx wrote:

My Windows xp just died for the 3rd time ...


What does "died" mean? Exactly what happened? What were the sysmptoms? If
you got an error message, please quote it verbatim.


so for the 3rd time I've
taken it to the repair guy ...who says he'll have to reload xp, that
my data can be recovered piecemeal, but that my software is gone.


It depends on the answer to the questions above, but that sounds to me very
much like the repair guy is incompetent.


This never happened to me with 95 .... so .... I'm thinking.... why
not put 95 on the computer? What is the downside? I'm a home user
doing primarily music, photos, and text processing.


The downsides are

- it probably won't support all your hardware
- lots of newer software won't run on it
- it will have greater security risks, since it hasn't been patched for
years
- if you do have problems, you'll find it more difficult to get help. Just
as an example,
I've forgotten most of what I used to know about it.

and so on. Personally I wouldn't even conside it.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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