re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?'
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 6:47 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Svenne B
(4 messages posted)
On Tuesday, January 27, 2004 at 4:48 am, NR wrote:
>Oddly enough, I've never had a SINGLE problem w/ WinXP. No crashes, no hardware
>conflicts, no instability.....
Thanks for your thoughts. Well, some pcs do perform well with win xp, some doesnt
do it, though they are quite new or brand new. I like the win xp rollback and saving
of existing configurations and that you can go back to that previous system configuration
in a rather easy way. Also i like the win xp nice handling of several network connections
at the same time, and nice handling of usb devices. Also its a useful feature that
you dont need to reboot the machine so often. My purpose with my ideas is to iniiate
discussions about msofts os design policy.
Winxp has undoubtedly serious disadvantages too, if it crashes, it crashes really
bad, and the result is sometimes really nasty, and difficulty of retrieving files,
especially if you have a portable pc. You often have to remove the hard drive and
mount in another ntfs capable machine to be able to extract and retrieve files that
you need. Modular design of an os arent bad, its a good way of building an os.
But many of the used dlls and other system files havent changed for years and could
be better put into a single large dll instead. 50mb RAM or so arent much in todays
machines, most have 256 mb. The large number of system important files needed for
the system to run arent beneficial for administrative purposes. Its difficult to
keep track of all different versions of these files. I see it as an growing source
of potential conflicts within a system.
Try the following on an xp machine: Use the mouse to do a copy of a large ~3-4gb
folder onto another drive in your xp system. Before it has finished, start another
copying of a large folder onto another drive. Maybe you can start a third copying
of a large folder. These though copying jobs causes many xp machines to perform very
sluggish to user inputs, they get too high priority. It can even cause the xp to
hang if you on the same time put in a cd in the cd reader.
Most win2000 machines doesnt do that, and Linux do such tasks very nice, lowering
the priority of the copying processes so that user input is still in favor.
Also i disklike that some xp machines misses in copying files correctly, sometimes
they are copied wrongly, when checking with crc or md5 hashes f large ~1gb files.
For though file copying jobs i use xxcopy ( www.xxcopy.com ) commandline, that can
be used with several different switches.
// Svenne
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