Simviation Forum - Exactly what do you have against Windows XP?

	Search the archive:

Simviation Main Site | Site Search | Upload Images

Simviation Forum › Computer Hardware & Software Forum › Computer Games & Software › Exactly what do you have against Windows XP?

(Moderators: Mitch., Fly2e, ozzy72, beaky, Clipper, JBaymore, Bob70, BigTruck)

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Pages: 1 2 3 4

Send Topic

Print

Exactly what do you have against Windows XP? (Read 3291 times)

Reply #30 - Aug 22^nd, 2003 at 12:08am

Chuck58 Offline
Lieutenant Colonel
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

Posts: 9

I switched to xp in January -- generic computer, 1.2 Athlon, 512 RAM, and haven't looked back. I formatted my hard drive and did a clean install. Everything works perfectly. It boots faster and, running 24/7, I have yet to have to reboot, something I had to do with 98SE at least every other day, usually daily.

The only problem I've found is that xp won't read my floppy drive. I haven't used the floppy in ages anyway. Everything goes to CD.

I have xp home. My wife has xp pro. Both are great and every piece of software we have works -- except my Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe game (DOS, I think 1993). Since going to FS2004, I don't miss it -- errrr, much. XP and 2000 are the best OS's Micro$oft has put out. I'd recommend them over anything but Linux and maybe the Mac OSX.

IP Logged

Reply #31 - Aug 24^th, 2003 at 4:47am

Chi_San Offline
Colonel
Ranma-Onna to Ranma Chan
Elsewhere

Posts: 54

Floppy Drive... What's that? :p I use ZIP disks or CD, or even better, Network drives. Cheesy

Cheesy

Niku san wa tomodachi desu.&&&&~Chi san

IP Logged

Reply #32 - Sep 3^rd, 2003 at 2:25pm

Chuck58 Offline
Lieutenant Colonel
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

Posts: 9

The floppy drive is the thing that, when I had 98SE, I kept all my work on. It all goes to CD now and, fortunately, my laptop will read the floppies and whatever needs to be printed can be done on it.

I understand the 3 1/4 disc is going extinct soon and I much prefer saving to CD anyway. Other than the floppy disc problem and the Mickey Mouse firewall that comes with it, I'm sold on XP.

IP Logged

Reply #33 - Sep 4^th, 2003 at 1:51pm

KnightStryker Offline
Colonel
What do you mean you can't
hear the voices???
Muskegon, Michigan

Gender:
Posts: 432

I was given a copy of XP about a month ago and useing ME at the time i had to reboot at least 10 or more times a day for some unknown reason. So I figured what the heck ill try it (afterall it was free). saved everything to cd and wiped the drive clean and did a clean install. Everything worked beyond belief. i have only had to reboot once in the last month. Only had two problems, First i set it up with two accounts one for me one for the wife. Both were administrator accounts and no matter what i did i had to install things in both accounts to get them to work right like my sound card and graphics card.
So deleted the wifes account and viola' problem fixed (although I get the daily thrashing over the ever changing aircraft wallpapers Grin

Grin

Grin

).
Other problem was i bought a new GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 128mb AGP card and had to not only update the drivers but also had to update the MoBo drivers and AGP slot drivers to get it to work. OF course only the drivers for the card were an XP issue and that wasn't that big a deal. I guess what im really saying is I know that alot of people have some major gripes about XP but it comes down to each persons experience with it, mine has been an awesome improvement over my ME problems and i wouldn't go back for anything. Anyways i say go ahead and try it, if it is bad for you then you can always go back to the older version. Good luck

IP Logged

Reply #34 - Sep 4^th, 2003 at 6:25pm

Lurch Offline
Colonel
South African Navy

Gender:
Posts: 1009

Quote:

.....useing ME at the time i had to reboot at least 10 or more times a day for some unknown reason.

If I had to explain what I thought of ME I would get banned from these forums for the inappropriate language Grin

Grin

lol,but seriously,it's just because ME is a piece of junk.Also,what I have heard,and I don't know how true it is,is that MS sold either the Alpha/Beta of XP and just labeled it as ME,thats why it's so useless,but,like I say,I don't know how true that is,but it is fairly believable.lol.
XP is definately the way to go in my opinion.

IP Logged

Reply #35 - Sep 7^th, 2003 at 12:24am

Hogans_Alley Offline
Colonel
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

Posts: 90

Shocked

Shocked

Shocked

Shocked

Shocked

Shocked

Shocked

Presently I have WIN98SE in my PC and it has served me fairly well - except that I believe WIN98SE will handle only up to 512M of RAM without causing "Out of Memory" warning, has something to do with the VCache. If, I can get more RAM (up to 1 GIg) using the 98SE, I will stay with it. I'm upgrading my PC and am contemplating buying and loading WINxp. Is this a necessary cost-effective move?

Hogans Alley

IP Logged

Reply #36 - Sep 7^th, 2003 at 7:05am

Lurch Offline
Colonel
South African Navy

Gender:
Posts: 1009

98SE is fairly good,but with the new machine you should go with XP.

XP is very good if you tweak it propery.
Go to these sites for plenty of good tweaks:
http://www.tweakxp.com/
http://www.mods4me.com

IP Logged

Reply #37 - Sep 7^th, 2003 at 7:05pm

4_Series_Scania Offline
Colonel
He who laughs last, thinks
slowest.
Stoke on Trent England U.K.

Gender:
Posts: 3638

Quote:

Shocked

Shocked

Shocked

Shocked

Shocked

Shocked

Shocked

Presently I have WIN98SE in my PC and it has served me fairly well - except that I believe WIN98SE will handle only up to 512M of RAM without causing "Out of Memory" warning, has something to do with the VCache. If, I can get more RAM (up to 1 GIg) using the 98SE, I will stay with it. I'm upgrading my PC and am contemplating buying and loading WINxp. Is this a necessary cost-effective move?

Hogans Alley

Hogans, if you end up with XP, I'd expect you to still have '98 on some dual boot setup or other.......

If so, and your machine for XP has more than 512MB, simply(!) goto your Start menu (in '98) goto "Run" type "Msconfig" click "Advanced" and check the Limit Memory bot and enter 512MB for the ammount of RAM for '98 to address. You should be sorted out.

As ever, in this wonderful world of windows, what works for me may not work for you however!!!!!

Regards,

Paul.

Posting drivel here since Jan 31st, 2002. - That long!

IP Logged

Reply #38 - Sep 10^th, 2003 at 10:06am

Scottler Offline
Colonel
Albany, New York USA

Gender:
Posts: 5989

At one point or another, I've had to use every version of Windows, with the exception of ME.

I've used 3.1.1, 95, 98, 98SE, and now XP.

I have to say, I've had no problems whatsoever with XP, and I find it extremely user friendly. I was even able to set up a LAN at home with 2 XP boxes in about 10 minutes!

Especially since I use 95 at work (not my choice, I'm stuck with it), I'm very happy to go home and use XP.

Definitely has my recommendation!

Great edit, Bob.&&&&&&Google it. &&&&www.google.com

IP Logged

Reply #39 - Sep 10^th, 2003 at 11:34am

nickle Offline
Colonel
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
San Diego, Ca

Gender:
Posts: 342

XP has performed much better than any of the Dos based windows OS's for me. I much prefer it to 98SE.
Some initial problems with drivers but they should be updated periodically anyway. MS has an upgrade compatability check and it might help.
On another computer with Abit BE-6 MB and Highpoint HDD controller gave installation problems because Highpoint will not issue XP driver. I used their beta version from the net (not from their site) and system works ok. Others used the W2K driver. The problem is not the OS but Highpoint.

IP Logged

Reply #40 - Sep 10^th, 2003 at 6:34pm

Lurch Offline
Colonel
South African Navy

Gender:
Posts: 1009

Quote:

Especially since I use 95 at work (not my choice, I'm stuck with it

WOW Hyperion,it must be like going back to the stoneage every morning at work.lol.

IP Logged

Reply #41 - Sep 10^th, 2003 at 10:03pm

Scottler Offline
Colonel
Albany, New York USA

Gender:
Posts: 5989

Yes, it is. And if that's not bad enough, the computer that has 95 on it only has 64mb of RAM! Angry

Angry

Great edit, Bob.&&&&&&Google it. &&&&www.google.com

IP Logged

Reply #42 - Sep 10^th, 2003 at 10:19pm

Lurch Offline
Colonel
South African Navy

Gender:
Posts: 1009

64MB of RAM,damn,my video card has more RAM than that.lol.I can guarentee I would have thrown that computer out one of the Windows (pun intended.lol) long ago.

IP Logged

Reply #43 - Sep 11^th, 2003 at 9:57am

Scottler Offline
Colonel
Albany, New York USA

Gender:
Posts: 5989

Not sure what I was thinking when I said it had 64 mb of RAM.

I realized on my way into the office this morning that it's only got 24...for real.

I know most of you won't believe this, so I'm going to post a screen of it.

Shocking, I know.

ROFL....and people ask why I hate my job. haha

Great edit, Bob.&&&&&&Google it. &&&&www.google.com

IP Logged

Reply #44 - Oct 7^th, 2003 at 2:55pm

GeForce Offline
Colonel
It keeps going and going!!
Wooohoooooo!!
London, United Kingdom

Gender:
Posts: 2616

You think that's bad. My old PC running on Win95 had 8mb RAM. Beat that. It was DIMM too Undecided

Undecided

&&LiveScripts.NET - Over 300 free Scripts and Extensive Scripting Tutorials&&AMD Athlon 64 3700+ @ 2.8Ghz | Asus A8N-SLi Premium | BFG Tech GeForce 7900GT 256mb @ 475/1360Mhz | 1Gb GeIL Ultra-X NF4 Edition | 160Gb WD SATA-3 HDD | Hiper Type-R 580W

IP Logged

Pages: 1 2 3 4

Send Topic

Print

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Top of this page

Simviation Forum » Powered by YaBB 2.5 AE!
YaBB Forum Software © 2000-2010. All Rights Reserved.

Valid XHTML

Valid CSS

Powered by Perl

Source Forge