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re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?'
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 7:41 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Svenne B
(4 messages posted)
My experience of win2000 pro or server is the same as yours. Its much stabler than
xp. It seldoms goes down or crashes, the differnece is light years away. But winxp
does run most programs faster on the very same physical machine. It seems to take
more advantage of faster machines than w2000 does. And xp has nicier handling of
new usb devices and smoothness of handling the netw connection (when you do a connect
of the lan cable, xp does a smoother connect than w2000 does).
But for many the xp has been a nightmare much the same as those who "upgraded" from
w98 to Millenium. The millenium edition was really a piece of pure shit.
For those who wants to test and run xp i recommend to do a clean install, not over
a previous windows version. But on a clean unformatted harddrive. If you cant start
the pc from the cd, you better choose to start from the xp floppies instead. Most
often you can fulfill an installation. But dont do an install while you have access
to the internet. Sometimes the pc installation locks up if internet is available.
Then after succesful install you need the xp service pack. Dont do an express install
instead you d-load the network install for it pros, ca 125mb. You often need another
machine to be able to download patches and transfer them to the new machine, if you
have a tricky machine that f***s up if you have network connection.
Its hard work to do a full install of all patches and be able then to safely connect
to the net. Explorer 6 arent of much use i think, i use Mozilla instead which is
much nicer, not installing suspicious malware like the explorer 6 does when surfing
around. And mozilla is very stable to say the least.
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