lmao. well when we called HP they said it was something dealing with XP..and they said that is why it is constantly crashing..mabey they're a bunch of liars..lol

has to do with HP.


computer companies load on a bunch of thier software and thier programs onto a computer when you buy from them.

Which is why is usually best to do a reformat right off the bat when ya get the computer.


And instead of sending it into them. I would of saved everything i needed and reformated it anyway. put XP on from scratch. thats when its at its best. (altho i never had a prob with xp upgrading from win98 either. but i hear it runs faster cuz it gets rid of files xp doesnt need)

oh ic. well i wouldn't have known how to do that anyways..:(

lol

Wow... anyone would think this is something you couldn't do with *nix machines. *nix was designed to be a multi-user OS right from the start, and has had these functions for years. And naturally, Linux is no exception.

Been learning some of the terminal commands recently. I just love the way in *nix you can move 2000 files at once whilst simulatneously doing a batch file name conversion. Doing this in windows would take forever. The terminal will let you do all sorts of styuff that windows can't, and the stuff it does that windows can do takes about a tenth of the time.

:D

Well I don't have XP, and I'm currently running Win98, but I just found out that I can get WinXP for FREE from school. I'm not sure which version it is, but I do get my own users license. Just wondering if it is worth my time to go and get it?

Depends on who you ask.

I love XP, I would never go back to another OS. I haven't had a SINGLE problem with it, it never has crashed with me, no "illegal operations" or anything -- it's perfect for me.

What I hate most about it is just all the pre-installed software. You can't turn of MSN Messenger (well, you can but it's either a registry hack or mucking about in your sys files - and it's been shown that ****ing service packs reinstall it anyway) which is a BIG security hole, or "feature" as M$ call it. I've not used Mesenger for ooh aout five months... but I chat on it every night. :D Such is the power of Trillian.

There's plenty more useless folderol as well, which you can't choose not to install. What I thought was great about computers was that you had a oad of options - not to with half of XP. "We know what you want better than you do" say M$. It was the beginnnings of the implementation of this in Win2K that finally made me switch to Linux. My estimate is that in a years time at the very most the only thing I will use my windows partition for is playing games. I've already found Linux apps to replace virtually anything I can find for Windows (in fact, most of the stuff I was looking for was built into Linux anyway).

Product activation sucks. My hardware configuration changes quite frequently, and I really can't be doing with having phone M$ up once a month or so begging them to let me use my computer again.

Mwah ha ha ha haah! You and your talk of stability. I can go into the GNOME system monitor and kill all my important processes, rendering my operating system useless. Then I can restart them and it all works again. AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Try killing explorer.exe in the task manager and restarting it, and see how far that gets you.

Like I said above, I've tried crashing Linux on purpose. Sure, I managed to crash a few programs. But not once have I managed to crash the OS. Not once have I had to reboot "cos it was acting a bit funny". Simply put, Linux is virtually impregnable. Mwah ha hah.

Oh yeah, and I can't think of any other OS's that'll give you a complete server (of any kind) OS for less than the price of the new Britney Spears album. Not that you need to pay for it either.

Ah. Unix rocks, and Linux is an utter mind ****ing delight after the dark days of Miscrosoft. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

I have a system with 384 MB of RAM. At boot, I get about 220 MB free. Then I had a quick fiddle with my system configuration, and found out that Win2K was loading a load of useless dll's (and all sorts of other stuff) into memory for seemingly no reason at all. A few quick tweaks later and I get 290 MB free at boot. XP does similar things. Why? Cos it's not in M$'s interests to actually make an OS that isn't a beta version.

My advice for 95/98/ME users... get 2000, not XP. Then you get to do without product activation, a load of useless programs and a slightly less opaque OS, IME with exactly the same stability. Which sucks compared to Linux of course. You won't get the shiny gooey and crap like that (unless you use a skinner or similar), but then you're not using your computer just to look shiny and yummy, right?

Oh **** you are. Damn.

Oh well, I shall just have to resort to running DVD movies as my desktop wallpaper in Linux then :D

Windows loads more Crap than anyone needs. In fact, the other day I went throiuugh WinME, my current OS and Deleted about half of M$'s junk that they Call "Software", which in M$-speak translates to "Virus catcher". As far as Explorer.exe Goes, I delted it once in WinME, and use the system restore, which worked leaving anything that was still working intact. I have Office XP, and while it's a nice office app, it's still made by M$, and Product activation is a pain in the ass. I haven't had to call M$ yet to reactivate it, but when I do, the conversation will probably go like this:

Me: Listen you lousy B@st@rds, I paed $500 for this piece of crap you call aan office Product so I could use it for school, and Personal Use, if you want to know why it's not working, it's because I replaced certain Components in my PC, now make the damn thing run again or I'll have the BBB knocking at your cheap-ass CEO's door.

M$: Sir Please calm down, we'l hav it runing in a minute.

For the next two hours...

M$: Is it running yet?

Me: No you idiot, your F***ed up software is worse than a 15 year old Car without an exaust pipe on a major highway!

After it's fixed...

M$: Sorry about all the probelms sir, Thanbk you for choosing Microsoft.

Me: Your NOT Welcome, I didn't choose Moronsoft, I was forced into it to play several old games, and you've just lost a customer on any new PC's!

Afterwards I'll finish Milking the life out of my PC, and eventually when it's no longer upgradeable at all, I'll Buy a Linux or Mac based Machine, which I will proudly Skin a Desktop for that says "Death to M$ and the Evil Empire!" with the Universal "NO" sign over the Windows Logo.