Windows XP - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways....
Sunday, April 14, 2002 by AJCrowley | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Well, it's that time again, the magical season of reformatting that seems to have become all the more frequent since I moved to XP. It seems that for every 5 times I install it, one installation will be good, the others will disagree with programs I use, crash at random, or simply be full of weird glitches. I would make the move back to 2K, but XP has a lot of new stuff that I've got used to having, so I guess I'll just have to deal with it, hopefully this install will go right first time (current's been on about 4 weeks, and I've been putting up with strange crashes and glitches such as explorer's treeview not showing icons next to any of the nodes). Wish me luck...
AJC
AJC
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starone
Reply #22 Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:11 AM
Reply #22 Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:11 AM
I upgraded from ME, no reformating, and everything is running smooth. It does seem to run faster. Even my scanner runs faster. Figure that out. No crashes. Running a AMD 1.2 GHZ.,768 Megs of RAM with 85 gig hard drive. I'am tickled pink.
feline
Reply #23 Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:34 AM
Reply #23 Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:34 AM
feline looks up from piles of paper on desk
whats this? starone needs tickling till she goes pink?
feline thinks i may be able to arrange something
whats this? starone needs tickling till she goes pink?
feline thinks i may be able to arrange something
starone
Reply #24 Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:23 PM
Reply #24 Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:23 PM
Hi Feline, keep your mind on the papers - no tickling needed here. Been a while since I have talked with you. Yes, finally got XP. On the other computer we have ME on the C drive and XP on the D drive. Had to take the other computer in to be fixed because ME totally locked up and we couldn't even get to it to format the drive. Anyway, the person that worked on it set it up that way. However, we have to switch the drives and we are not able to select from a bootup which drive to logon to. And, would you believe, even with the drive re-formatted, ME is still acting up.
BoXXi
Reply #25 Friday, April 19, 2002 2:04 AM
Reply #25 Friday, April 19, 2002 2:04 AM
I've been running XP Professional on my system, PII 233Mhz, 320Mb Ram, 8Mb Matrox video card and a 3Gb hard drive. No problems at all to report, runs smooth as silk. 
craeonics
Reply #26 Friday, April 19, 2002 4:45 AM
Reply #26 Friday, April 19, 2002 4:45 AM
Well, "smooth". I get the occasional "Windows has run out of resources" and Explorer behaves way below par (locks up and crashes from time to time). But hell, as long as it boots fast, I'm happy.
Jafo
Reply #27 Friday, April 19, 2002 7:26 AM
Reply #27 Friday, April 19, 2002 7:26 AM
ME actually NEVER 'acts up'...it was always intended to be as screwy as it is....a resounding success, I'd say...
feline
Reply #28 Friday, April 19, 2002 9:44 AM
Reply #28 Friday, April 19, 2002 9:44 AM
starone, just remember "format" and "fdisk" are your friends 
it sounds like that machine needs a slightly more stern approach. personally i would just backup the data, fdisk both drives, and then install XP on its own. fairly quick and painless once you have done the fdisk stage.
is this why you have been so mysteriously absent of late?
it sounds like that machine needs a slightly more stern approach. personally i would just backup the data, fdisk both drives, and then install XP on its own. fairly quick and painless once you have done the fdisk stage.
is this why you have been so mysteriously absent of late?
starone
Reply #29 Friday, April 19, 2002 6:03 PM
Reply #29 Friday, April 19, 2002 6:03 PM
Well, between installing XP and trying to get this skin done and family matters, been pretty tied up. Hubby has really gotten involved in all this too. It's gotten to where he gets me up and says, "You are wasting valuable skinning time." When I started doing this he remarked "why are you wasting your time?" Go figure.
I'm sure he will be interested in the fdisk method. I think he is just about to throw ME away. Only thing is I would really like to keep it just to be able to bring my skins up on ME to see how they look there in addition to XP. Somehow feel hopelessly lost not being able to look at XP and ME.
I'm sure he will be interested in the fdisk method. I think he is just about to throw ME away. Only thing is I would really like to keep it just to be able to bring my skins up on ME to see how they look there in addition to XP. Somehow feel hopelessly lost not being able to look at XP and ME.
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Reply #21 Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:44 AM