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re: XP works
Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 7:10 am
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Posted by Water (2 messages posted)


I am trying to find the system scandisk on this system. Any suggestions.


On Monday, November 19, 2001 at 8:42 pm, Ray Bacon wrote:
>For about a week now I've been reading of the various problems folks have been having
>with XP. While I won't minimize the seriousness of some of these problems, this
>hasn't been my experience.
>
>I did an upgrade of XP-Pro over Millennium (AMD-500, ASUS MB) and all my stuff worked
>after the upgrade (except I did uninstall Nortons and Roxio, then reinstalled them).
>
>I then did a reformat of a P-166 system (74 mb ram), and did a clean install of XP
>-- worked fine!
>
>I know that I probably have better patience than many, but the upgrade and clean
>install were just really smooth for me.
>
>Having used DOS, Win3.1, Win95, Win98, Mill, and MVC mainframe programming, I'm predisposed
>to expect wrinkles, but I find no particular annoyances with XP.
>
>I would be suspicious of new machines with XP preloaded, because I don't trust other
>people's images, and there is an adjustment required when migrating legacy components
>and apps, but these can be worked through.
>
>Anyway, those of you who are frustrated with XP in some way or another, HANG IN THERE!


Written in response to:
XP works (Ray B: Monday, November 19, 2001 at 8:42 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: XP works (Ray B: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 8:55 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-XP works (Ray B: Mon, Nov 19, 2001, 8:42 pm)
*re: XP works (Pix: Tue, Nov 20, 2001, 6:09 am)
-re: XP works (Water: Tue, Nov 20, 2001, 7:10 am)
-re: XP works (Ray B: Tue, Nov 20, 2001, 8:55 am)
*re: XP works (Water: Tue, Nov 20, 2001, 9:05 am)
-re: XP works (Robert DeFusco: Tue, Nov 20, 2001, 9:05 pm)
*re: XP works (Ray B: Tue, Nov 20, 2001, 9:18 pm)
-re: XP works (David: Wed, Nov 21, 2001, 9:16 am)
-re: XP works (Ray B: Wed, Nov 21, 2001, 9:44 am)
-re: XP works (David: Sat, Nov 24, 2001, 5:24 am)
-re: XP works (Ray B: Sat, Nov 24, 2001, 9:48 am)
*re: XP works (Rick: Sat, Oct 12, 2002, 11:49 am)
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