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Summary: The best Version of Windows yet!
Review: While Windows XP still has an occassional "error" it surpasses its predessors by miles!
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Summary: XP is the most stable OS yet but it has endless flaws!!
Review: Microsoft Windows Xp gives you so many new ways to use your computer. Some of the features are simply mindblowing. I like the crisp clean icons, The the unbeatable picture quality, And not to mention that cute search puppy. "I love that little fellow". But the flaws in this operating system make you wonder. Are all of these usless features worth it? It is not just the colors or the little Pup, Or maybe the so called crash proof operating system. 90% of my games do not work with XP. The other 10% of them have video conflicts. People tell me to just upgrade these Hardware drivers. I should not have to. If Microsoft would pull their heads out of their ... and take their time to master the operating system before they release it maybe we would not have to.
I have never seen a single piece of software or hardware that would not work with 95,98,and ME. Xp tells you from the get go during installation that this and that has not been tested yet. Is it not their job to master the os before selling it to the public? Thats like selling me a half cooked hamburger. I must say that nothing upsets me more than the Activate Windows deal. You are only allowed to install the operating system like three times or so. After that it will not let you activate windows anymore and your OS stops working after a waiting period of 30 days. Hell you bought the damn product with your hard earned money and you have a defective product after three installations or so. You then have to call microsoft and request a new product key. I had to. They did nothing but cram the licence agreement thing down my throat but they gave me a new key code after yelling at them. My advice to everyone is don't waste your money. Go buy your wife a new ring or something and call it a day.
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Summary: After some remedial compatibility measures, excellent OS
Review: I upgraded from the fecal Me to XP about 2 months ago. I experienced a wealth of compatibility problems with hardware and pre-installed software. Nothing seemed to work and I was actually tempted to wipe my hard drive and go back to Me. Well, I patiently and painstakingly visited the appropriate websites for all of my hardware (video and sound cards; mother board; digital camera) and software, and 99% of those pages had updated drivers and patches to render their products XP compliant. Well, the ONLY problem I've had since then is speed. My PC runs some old games TOO FAST (P4 1.7 GHz; 512 MB; GeForce 2 32MB). So I downloaded a utility to slow down my processor when I want to and now all is right in my Windows world. I haven't had anything remotely resembling a crash and haven't even had to reboot except in the normal course of enabling different software features. The new features are kind of underwhelming, although I do make good use of the multilingual options. There were a few things in Windows 98 and Me upon which I'd hoped XP would improve, but apart from the ability to input and view Chinese characters, there is little to get excited about in terms of XP's new features. Fortunately, I didn't upgrade for the features but for the efficiency and stability. With that in mind I can only feel that I truly got my money's worth. After a history of Microsoft-generated headaches (we all seem to conveniently forget about how that company has so immensely improved our world), I'm reluctant to praise them. But after having taken a few simple and necessary measures to render my system compatible, I have to say that Windows XP is not perfect, but quite satisfying and clearly the best Windows OS yet.
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Summary: Does not rate even one (1) star..... totally poor quality
Review: Do not buy home edition. if you are going to xp to go to professional. many, many programs will not run on home and many do not have fixes out there. Like AUTOCAD.....Roxio. BEWARE.........
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Summary: Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade
Review: Installed on a Winbook XL2 that I have been threatening to smash, trash, and crash for over 2 years for ongoing aggravating bootup and shutdown problems. Could not boot with USB device attached. Reinstalled 98 a dozen times, no better. Restored from Winbooks restore CD no better. I have been running XP on it for 2 weeks and have had none of the previous problems, and have it on a small network now as well. Hard to believe it could resolve all this but so far so good.
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Summary: Best OS yet
Review: I actually love it! It automatically installed most of the hardware, if not all.
I had a problem with my CD burner, the software, but XP has its own, which works 100%!
You get to customize the PC more, the desktop, settings.
Some give bad reviews saying it crashes. It could be that the person isn't experinced in PCs, or they had a defective one.
Some may have an older PC, which may not work.
Its even better with games, on line games, everything!
Its cool!
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Summary: No Crashes On Three Computers In Over 10 Months
Review: That title says it all. I installed Windows XP on three different computers - 2 desktops and 1 laptop. The computers have all been 1000% stable for the last 10 months. A lot of the complainers writing these reviews obviously don't know enough to update their sound and video drivers. Or they buy cheap no-name hardware made by manufacturers who don't care enough about their customers to provide good quality software drivers.
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Summary: 10 Months And Zero Crashes On 3 Computers
Review: Its true folks. I installed Windows XP Home Edition on three different computers on Oct 25, 2001. Not one of those computers has had a single crash since then.
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Summary: Undue Influence of MIS and IT foks on a Home product
Review: This is a technology gone bersek with needless complexity and overkill for simple home user having one computer in his study room. Administrator, pass word protection, inability to download and save files if not logged in as administrator.. the list goes on and on. Duh ? If you screwup during installation, your password for automatic log in to your ISP provider can not be fixed easily. Try editing your pass word files. Fat chance. Each time you have to delete the old wrong password and type in your correct password. So much for automatic log on. Try changing your hardware even alittle bit, you have to call microsoft to re-register your software.... You are better off with older version of the window operating systems. Atleast they left you alone once you made your purchase. Overkill and listening to the wrong users in product development indeed.
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Summary: They're digging their own graves
Review: This is the highly anticipated Windows OS that everyone needed to get. It truly does appear revamped in a lot of places. The desktop is less cluttered, the start menu is more organized, and there are extra things one can do with the folders they create. For example, putting a custom made picture or graphic to the folder icon itself: If you have a folder with a lot of Jimmy Buffett songs, you can put up a picture of Jimmy Buffett as the folder icon. The folders are also designed to be more picture and graphics oriented, as instead of simply using a folder to house the picture files, one can turn a it into a photo album of sorts. One can use scanners and cameras through the control panel, bypassing having to use the software that came with them. Of course, while the operating system has a new look and new gadgets, it offers little else I'm afraid. It can't run correctly on a computer that has less than 128 megabytes of RAM. Anything less than that, and you have a computer that, very frequently, lags terribly or simply stops responding. So this OS has very little to offer to those of us who have older computers -- computers that are at least over a year and a half old. With that in mind, when the computer does cease functioning, normally one would go to ALT-CTRL-Delete to disable the program(s) causing the problem. Unfortunately, in Windows XP when this command is given, it brings a CPU usage monitor. This monitor has no special purpose, as it simply displays graphs depicting how much of the CPU is being used. Naturally, one would think that by hitting ALT-CTRL-Delete again, it would shut down the computer entirely, but instead, it pulls up another CPU usage monitor. Now you have two CPU usage monitors running simultaneously. Going through the start menu and selecting 'Turn Off Computer' doesn't help either. After that is selected, you get the usual display choices Standby, Turnoff, Reboot, or Cancel. Selecting any of those first three will simply close the selection box -- and the computer will still continue running. You can do this over and over and still get no response from the computer. It seems that Microsoft is making quality take a back seat to everything else. It seems that they're only interested in how many more new features could be added. The more new features they add, the more people they can attract to the OS, is what I'm assuming they're thinking. Sooner or later, that's going to deter buyers altogether. Another problem is the fact that Microsoft is all of a sudden shelling out a new operating system every 12 to 18 months. No one can keep up. Not even the third party companies who make the software and hardware for the OS. It's gotten to the point where nothing is compatible with anything else. As a matter of fact, it seems that these third party companies are taking advantage of the situation. Nowadays, when Microsoft shells out a new OS, instead making a patch available on their website, these third party companies will make you buy the entire product over again. As it stands, I've had to replace my printer and my CD burner. Another deterrent would eventually be the 'One copy to one computer' idea -- if you have three computers, you have to buy three copies of Windows XP. We're living in an age where the majority of computer owners (myself included) have more than one computer in there home. The idea of having to spend two and three hundred dollars just to upgrade the Operating Systems on my computers makes me shudder. Not to mention having to go out and buy the new versions of these third party programs. So that's two and three-hundred dollars PLUS an additional two and three hundred dollars just to get everything upgraded, third party software and hardware replaced, and get the system in working order. What average Joe, like myself, could go out and dump four to six hundred dollars every 12 to 18 months just to keep up with the game every time Microsoft gets the notion to make a new operating system? I remember a time when we got three years between upgrades, and that was fine with me. Listen, I've been a Microsoft supporter since Windows version 3.11 for Workgroups was a hot item, but if Microsoft continues on this route, I'm afraid I might find myself looking for other avenues like Apple or Linux.
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