[A83] Re: OT: XP (Re: Re: Problems with Virtual TI)

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[A83] Re: OT: XP (Re: Re: Problems with Virtual TI)


> >Well it has a couple of bugs, like two *I think* video cards won't work with
> >it, (it gives you the blue screen of death every once in awhile with those
> >certain cards) that should be fixed though. It has really good voice support
> >for like text documents and when you want it to play music. It also is very
> >stable like control + alt + delete doesn't freeze up the computer until you
> >exit out of that prompt like the previous versions. So if you were burning a
> >cd or playing music in the background those would keep going. Also it has a
> >more graphical interface other than, that its basically the same. I like it.

> I tried XP for about 5 days, then I got very tired of it, and removed it, 
> and switched back to Win2000 that I ran before.
> They have totally messed up the interface imho.
> I couldn't change it to the way I wanted it, like the taskbar couldn't be 
> modified as freely in size if you have it on the side of the screen instead 
> of the bottom. It had tons of small "improvements" that hid functions 
> relevant to me and provided me with quick buttons to features I never use. 
> It had small annoying office like wizards popping up warning me about disk 
> space every 5 minutes that was impossible to turn off if you didn't install 
> Power Toys, and a lot of small stuff like that, that taken together made it 
> unusable to me.
> The new style was even harder to get to look alright, so that I turned off 
> very quickly going to "classic" mode.
> Took me days just to turn off all this stuff, and I still didn't get the 
> interface as I wanted it.  The thing that pushed me over the edge though, 
> was that I couldn't get it to play mpegs and divxs good on my computer.
> It claimed to use my hardware, but it sure didn't look like it.... the 
> movies where unwatchable with the mediaplayer that came with XP, and when I 
> tried use version 6 from my w2k installation, it at least played smothly, 
> but reduced colors to something that looked horrible.
> Could probably be fixed, but at that point I was very tired of XP.
> About the cntrl+alt+del, it doesn't freeze the computer in Win2000 either.
> 
> For me, win2000 is still the best choice. Maybe XP will get usable in later 
> versions though. I will probably try it again in a year or so.

So, the best Windows is win2000 exept when you're a real gamer. In that case you better use win98SE.

Adriaan Coosemans
e-mail: adriaanc@mail.com
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