re: XP works Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 9:44 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ray B (393 messages posted) Your point is well taken, and we have all seen instances of updated drivers being required and hardware not being immediately compatible, but these problems can normally be resolved quite easily. Can you be more specific about the drivers and hardward that have impeded your upgrade to XP? On Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 9:16 am, Dave wrote: >It works great if you have the right drivers and if your hardware supports XP. Otherwise, >get out the wallet out and upgrade components. > > >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: re: XP works (David: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 9:16 am) Responses to this message: re: XP works (David: Saturday, November 24, 2001 at 5:24 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum