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re: ME upgrade to XP
Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 4:17 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by PhilMac
(2 messages posted)
I guess you just gotta mess around with all of them to be really sure. I've lived
in Chicago all of my life but Atlanta is where I "grew up" because that's where I
went to college. That's how I feel about Win2KPro compared to all that came before.
You get me? It's not as much "fun" as '98 (and I am a gamer), but I love the stability.
To me that's the biggest issue. And it can handle high end programs better. I'm
trying to get used to XP Pro. It is built on the same frame as Win2K and Nt4 before
it. XP home is an extension of 98 (I refuse to recognize the mistake called ME.
OS-10 made Bill very nervous).
I have XP Pro and 98 on a dual boot and it works fine except when it comes to networking
issues.
Good luck.
On Monday, November 11, 2002 at 12:10 pm, RL, Sussex wrote:
>Nope! I am still thinking about it, but while I have heard some rave reviews saying
>how stable it is, I have also heard people like yourself condemning it for being
>the least stable version of Windows so far! Don't quite know what to make of what
>it's really like. The O.S. you love to hate? Or hate to love? Or would love to love,
>but just can't? Oh, I dunno!
>
>Anyway, after hearing how XP makes you re-register the O.S. after 3 hardware changes
>(and update something with Microsoft every time you make 1 hardware change), I am
>not very keen on it! I've also heard about compatability issues with XP. ME, being
>part of the 9x series, is sure to be compatible with more stuff, although Windows
>2000Pro is nearly as bad as XP in this respect. I think perhaps a dual boot ME/2000
>or ME/XP system may be good? Obviously, the latter would be substantially more expensive,
>given I already own 2000 and have 98 as a second boot option on my 2000 machine
anyway.
>This means the first option would mean a simple ME upgrade, the second an XP upgrade.
>And they don't come cheap. Would you recommend XP in particular over 2000, despite
>the cost and compatability issues? If so, what do you find is better about it?
>
>
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- re: ME upgrade to XP (RL, Sussex: Monday, November 11, 2002 at 12:10 pm)
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