Xp full of bugs

[rvf500]

I have XP pro on my laptop and apart from a few nightmares at installation with trying to get drivers for some of my devices and the fact that it decided I no longer required my e-mail address book so it deleted it for me. I have no idea why this happened. I upgraded from 2000 pro. Since then it has run just fine. I did however take it off my desktop as getting drivers for some of my existing peripherals to work was becoming another pain. Also a number of my kids (include me in the kid bit) games wouldn't work so it had to go. I also removed a bunch of the startup items so it would boot up the same day as I switched it on !!!

I agree ME is atrocious. Which is what I was left with on the desktopPC. I simply modified the start up and it seems to have settled down perhaps un upgrade to win 2000 or a downgrade to win98SE is in order there. Any opinions out there on this one?

[ebo]

Now this is what I am talking about. We all are getting bad results from most of M$ products. This actually proves that nobody from M$ cares about what they sell to there costumers. I have to agree with chuck56, people these days are more into easy life. Nobody wants to do anything after they turn on their box. They just want to click on icons and be on their way. Doing so M$ takes advantage and sells them crappy OS knowing that the people have no idea what they are doing, if something goes wrong they will go and waste their money trying to fix something that they can fix themselves. If they get to know the kind of products that they are buying and how many bugs that it contains. I think they will prefer to use something that will be a little harder because you have to do more than click an i con, than get someting that is easy but they will lose a lot of money on.

[ashu18]

I am using XP Pro since 6 months and cant remember any serious crash till now.But only drawback is that it crashes when you play big old games like Need for Speed

[rvf500]

Another issue that will slow Linux up is that of compatilbilty. People want to know if their existing programmes and hardware will work under Linux. I know that UNIX programmes can work on Windows boxes using software such as exceed emulator. I've spent enough time in front of an HP openview screen on an NT box using exceed and that works just fine. The question is, does it work the other way? Might sound like a dumb question but as I have never used Linux I would like to know myself.

If this is the case then Linux needs to get its act together and advertise this. We won't get a decent deal out of Bill Gates until he has reason to give it to us. That means he needs some serious competition. I have a lot of sensetive data and can't afford the down time if I screw about with the OS and half my stuff won't work. Call it ignorance but it's an ignorance a lot of ordinary people live with and will keep us from a better deal. If I know that my data is safe when I change the OS then I will change it. But if I have to buy a bunch of expensive software on the back of that change, then I won't.

[Spyder32]

Heh, Win98/ME is built alike and WinXP/2k is built alike. So if you have WinME, don't downgrade to Win98 (dunno why you'd want to downgrade anyways), but upgrade. Personally, upgrading to me would be in a lInux version (Redhat 8.0! ) and not a Window's version. Like I've said, if you want the best (IMHO) M$ system, it's Windows 2000. That's JMHO though, so take it as you would any other opinion.

[rvf500]

Ok, that takes us to the compatability issue. What would I have to do to allow current software to run on Linux? I'd have to fight off 2 teenagers if their games were screwed and I have enough on my plate without that :P

I am definitely interested in Linux I just want some good information before I start to mess with the OS (again)

As for the downgrade option. When dealing with ME then going back to '98 isn't so much a downgrade as a stability upgrade. IMO for what it's worth

[mmoehring]

i like xp corporate edition except for one thing if i run trillian or media player and i close them out right my system restarts. and its pissing me off now if i do not run media player and use some other media player every once in a while it will restart. my config for this box is: 1.1ghz amd duron, 80 gig wd hdd, 256mgs of pc2100 ddr ram and the msi elitegroup K7VTA3 motherboard it maxes out at 3 gigs of ram and 3ghz cpu. any ideas ????

[-=Wayuu=-]

I use XP Pro and just love it, barely ever had any problems, except some I created myself for beeing careless and loading a trojan or other things. Some bootups the system will hang tho. I've used Xp since the betas almost 2 years ago. Their BEST OS ever. Worked on all their OS'es from DOS 1.0 actually, except Millenium. Now, ofcourse, I'm the extremely meticulous type and a systems engineer. I use special software to track installs, etc.. and go thru registry and services to disable what I don't need, but messing around w that kinda stuff could actually make t system more instable.
I'm a technician on Mac's and have used Linux for a couple of years too b4. Can't say that either is better than XP. Linux "might" be more stable, ofcourse better for running such things as a game server, but both give me at least as much headache as MS OS'es. Linux is (or was at the time I used it which was when everyone said it was sooo easy and great) a bitch installing everything in and especially a bitch getting latest drivers for all newest hardware (compared to XP for ex.)
Security wise I can inform you that Linux hackings and trojan/virus making is the largest expanding area, greater than on MS systems at the moment. Linux is getting more used in companies and therefore now getting targeted by hackers. Last months it's been shown that Linux is actually not very safe at all. My brother is one of the few specialists on secure money transaction methods in the world, not to say that others don't know more, but not that many tho. According to their tests the safest OS of all, even including UNIX, is win 2k/XP.
I AM impressed w the work MS has put in the last year on testing, solving, and putting out security patches/solutions continuously and really trying to make it as safe and secure as possible.

I do WISH I could use another system than MS since I do HATE big bullies and always want to support the little ones. I've been in court more times than most of u hear fighting big companies, but I still have to separate the damn bitch company and what I think of their products.
Don't see many complaining that much on all the gaming companies. I've had so many games I havn't been able to play because they are **** (crash, freeze, etc.) when they go gold and then they spend next year releasing patches and some of the games never work anyway on my system, like NWN which I have given up totally. Was looking forward to that game for over a year. Others never had ANY probs at all w it. Just the way software and hardware still works, until the day when computers go intelligent.

[Spyder32]

True, but we all know how nice Microsoft is to it's competition. I mean, look what the XBox is doing, it recently bought Nintendo's right hand producer, RareSoft. They lost alot of money in a company that's dying IMHO, but that's what they are willing to do to stay on top. Microsoft, plain and simple, doesn't like competition and wants to be #1 in everything. Sadly, they are in operating systems which is why many people (myself included) like to promote Linux and Opensource software. OpenSource Forever!

[halfdoghalfman]

it's great to see linux doing well, i'm relatively new to unix systems but i can't wait for the day i delete windows permenantly. (says the guy in front of a windows box...) i actually saw linux on the news last week described as 'emerging competition' for M$ so maybe more people are becoming aware of their options.