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re: XP works
Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 9:05 am
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Posted by Water (2 messages posted)

also, i need to know how to run a screen saver without the icons showing, and how would I go about loading a screensaver into the system

On Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 8:55 am, Ray Bacon wrote:
>Surprised me, but the XP help says that Scandisk is not supported in XP, but that
>CHKDSK is the function to use. For parameters, search for CHKDSK in your Help area,
>but you can use it by entering CHKDSK in your RUN option on the START menu.
>
>--Ray
>
>

>On Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 7:10 am, Water wrote:
>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!