XP woes

mikim · Dec 27, 2001

I just prefer to build up and upgrade myself
In the past, so have I - but it's cheaper now to order the whole package than to build. --by several hundred dollars --
I priced out the parts at my local supply shop for the same config and it was over $300 more and that's w/o software. When I built my last one I saved that amount by building vs. buying. - go figger -
mike

Bird · Dec 27, 2001

You guys certainly scare me, since I don't understand half of what you're saying. Of course, I bought my new Dell before XP was available and ordered the XP on the 12th of this month. Their order status board still shows "Not Shipped." Good luck, Mike.

mikim · Dec 27, 2001

Roy -
I work around my buffer under run errors on the machine I have at the office by slowing down the copy speed to 4X - then I have no problem with direct cd -> cd copy --

RoyJackson · Dec 27, 2001

Yeah, my 'burner is 2 or 3 years old now...

 Roy Jackson
Windsor, PA 
[email]jacksonrm@suscom.net[/email]

glennmac · Dec 27, 2001

Macintosh: plug, play. My sympathies.

MossRoad · Dec 27, 2001

Your post smacks of a satisfied user. Shame on you. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 MossRoad

billboe · Dec 27, 2001

Hi Mike,

Unless you want to run lots of games (especially older ones) or DOS apps, personally, I'd stay away from ME... If you want to avoid XP, I'd go for 2K... If I was making the choice, I'd probably stick it out with XP. Then again, I enjoy self-abuse! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Billboe

RPM · Dec 28, 2001

mikim,

Sorry to hear about your issues with XP - I have a new Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop and also a new HP Pavilion desktop both running XP with no problems whatsoever.

Key trick - before loading any software, go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ and get all the relevant latest patches. Do this before you start downloading updates for your individual applications. (I learned this on Windows 2000)

The laptop came with XP (Dec 2001) - and have had no problem with any of the functions - including CD burning. The desktop came with Windows ME (Summer 2001) - and I upgraded to XP (Dec 2001). I would see at least a couple blue screens of death a day prior to XP, but have not seen one since installing. This is all with home edition - haven't seen the need for professional yet.

I also have Adobe Acrobat 5 running on both, MS Office 2000, a whole bunch of kids games on the desktop, several development tools on the laptop - a whole bunch of stuff.

I don't even work for Dell, HP or Microsoft!! I guess I'm using up everyone else's good luck here - sorry about that!!

Best Wishes for the New Year to all anyway ...

Patrick

GlueGuy · Dec 28, 2001

XP is the up and comer but I'd bet I'd have fewer issues with ME

That's a bunch of hogwash. XP has been around for years. Last year it was called Windows 2000, and the year before that they called it NT. The only thing new about it is that it's the only OS that M$ sells these days. Oh, they also updated the drivers for some devices. Vendors that were with it wrote to the universal standard before this anyway and saved themselves some extra work.

It's about time that they trashed the old DOS workhorse.

The GlueGuy

DVerbarg · Dec 28, 2001

GlueGuy,

You have my curiosity going. If XP is just an updated version of Win2k and WinNT then why do drivers for that work with Win2k not work with WinNT? I'm specifically thinking of 2 way satellite systems that only support Win2k or Win9X but not XP.

DaveV