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re: XP home edition vs. Millenium?
Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jude Nihal Fernando
(106 messages posted)
I believe that you shoudn't upgrade Windows ME to Windows XP. I suggest that you
install Windows XP Professional by using a clean install method. Also, you should
make your Windows XP Professional partition an NTFS partition. Make another partition
a FAT32 one and install Windows ME. That way, you can use that os for 16 bit legacy
software support and use Windows XP for the latest security, etc.
On Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 9:02 pm, zero4zero wrote:
>Personally, I liked Millenium very much. I never had a bug with it and when I wanted
>to format my hard drive and re-install, it was a charm.
>Recently I got a new computer PIV 3.0 Gig and 1 Gig of PC3200 and was it ever a
problem
>to load XP on an empty hard drive and no bootable CD. I used my Millenium start-up
>diskette to format my hard drive, loaded Me, and then upgraded to XP. (Why would
>you do a compatibility test when all your components are new)
>When XP was loaded I didn't have access to the internet because the XP driver for
>my network card was not loaded!. I finally connected my other PC, downloaded the
>service pack 1a, burned it on a CD (as well as the program to make XP boot diskettes)....and
>got XP running...what a pain in the .....
>Once XP running I found it very fast, I did the service pack 2 update, and what
happened
>next is that my dvd rom could not play DVD's anymore and my ATI video updated driver
>caused the display to take only about 75% of the screen. If it was wasn't that I
>have a processor that supports hyperthreading, I'd load Millenium on my new computer.
>At least with Millenium, I can tweak the system to get the most out of it, and there
>are no "tons of services">I don't play tennis; which wonder if they are all necessary.
>With Me, if something go wrong , I can easily fix it. But since motherboard and
computer
>companies are designing equipment to operate with the next operating system, it
is
>not easy to decide. Constantly manufacturing new operating system is a real bugger;
>when is Microsoft gonna stop.
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