reply: compare windows me to xp






On Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 5:53 am, Mike Smith wrote:
>How much better is XP HOME edition vs. Millenium?


windows me had many major issues most of witch should of been fixed before the release. 
like for instance windows me only supports 512 megs of system memory you can make 
a crude atempt at fixing this by limiting page file cache but the b.s.o.d's will 
continue. me is a good solid system for the most part if you have a computer that 
is slower than 750 mhz and has less than 512megs of memmory and less than 4 installed 
cards pci and only plan to network with only one other computer. anything more than 
that (wich most of us had by the time of the windows me release ) will only work 
solid with windows xp or 2000 windows 2000 is a great solid os but lacks user friendly 
operation for the home user it was made for larger networks running servers and data 
banks windows xp is kind of confusing when first moving from windows me but once 
you learn to ignore the typical microsoft bs that is packaged with all microsoft 
os's its good solid running it uses the nt kernel engine but has all the uses and 
features of windows me the visual aspect is a shock at first but you can change that 
to look the way that you were used to before about the only problem is getting some 
of my hardware drivers to install because the evil empire microsoft set up xp to 
not install any drivers that havent been signed by them even if you click the install 
anyway button xp will install any microsoft driver it currently has in its library 
but there is a way to force the unsigned drivers in through the hardware configuration 
utility just dont let it search and always use have disk and instruct it to the correct 
drivers once past that crap and getting all your software installed its good and 
if you got software that wont run use the compatibility wizard it has worked. 

in closing im actually impressed with it after all the years of crap they have force 
fed us and to give some insight in to what im dealing with heres my system config

soyo motherboard
sb audigy platnum
pci modem
pci lancard
radeon 9700 pro
amd athalon xp 2800+
via chipset
3 gb memory ddr
2 western digital 120gb harddrives ata 133
70x cd
42x cdr
floppy and colorado tape backup


over 1000 titles of software installed
ranging in digital audio and video recording w/ a full digital recording studio hooked 
in 3d graphic modeling and video design web design photo editing software and creation 
programs desktop publishing and about 80 high end games it also serves as a server 
for our 3 machine home business and sometimes i swap video cards for a 3dlabs wildcat 
card and it has been running for four good months and not one error or blue screen 
of death
(wich is a gift from god himself for that not to happen from any microsoft product 
including solitare) so think wisely and invesigate your real needs before changing 
os's cause the last thing anyone really needs to do on this planet is give bill antichrist 
gates one more red cent

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