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Summary: Yuck
Review: I can't give 0 stars, so 1 will have to do. My advise? Go buy a Macintosh. I did and I've never looked back.
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Summary: So good I'm buying it twice!!
Review: I only have experience with the full version of XP Home, but it's so good that I'm buying the upgrade for my PC running Me.I built my first PC about 2 months ago. I was actually disappointed when I built it, because I thought it'd be harder and take longer. But the reason it went so much faster was because of XP. XP has so many device drivers already baked into it, that I didn't need to install a single driver! The 2 CDRW's, floppy drive, internal zip drive, internal flash card reader, and network card for my 4 port router were recognized, and drivers installed, without me hitting a single key. And that's just the install... This OS has been as rock-solid as they come. I run this PC 8-10 hours per day, and have run it everyday (except for a few days around Thanksgiving and Christmas) for 2 months. I have not had a single crash or lockup since I turned the PC on the first time. I still can't believe it. You see, I also have a Windows Me PC that crashes constantly. I either get the blue screen of death, or it locks up so bad even Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work, and I have to just kill the power. So XP is certainly a breath of fresh air. I have had a couple programs that I used to run on a Windows 95 machine that didn't seem to like XP, but compatibility mode helps (that's a brand new feature). And that's only a couple of those old programs. The rest of the oldies worked just fine! As for the ability to customize, this one is tops by far. It's a little daunting getting used to taking different paths to get to where you're going when you want to alter the OS, but I think it's more customizable than any previous OS. FAST! My Me machine boots up in about 2 minutes. My XP machine boots up in about 32 seconds. And it shuts down in about 13 seconds. And if you really want to run this OS lean and mean, you can opt to do away with the cutesy new look that adds all kinds of graphics (and time to process), in favor of a graphically stripped-down version that will run even faster. The only thing I'm concerned with regarding an upgrade is the method each OS files data. Windows 95 uses FAT16, and 98 and above use FAT32. XP uses NTFS. I don't know anything about what any of that means, except that I can see they're different. I plan to backup everything before I try to upgrade, but the upshot of all of this is: I bought it once, and it was good enough that I'm going to buy it again.
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Summary: XP
Review: Dispite all the bad things have been said I like the OS.
Let me clairfy what people have been saying... 1.
The DOS feature still exist, in the RUN menu use "command.com", which is the older version of DOS. "cmd.exe" is default in the OS, and is the newer version of DOS. 2.
There are 4 interfaces in XP, Windows XP Blue, Olive Green, Sliver, and Classic. There are thousands of other interfaces you can add on with a 3-rd party application like Styles XP, you can get MacOS interface by the way. 3.
XP can run solidly and fast even on a Pentium 3 533mhz with 128MB of ram, although the extra 128MB ram helps alot. It also dos not require as much hard drive, 15GB is plenty, XP uses only 3.07GB out of 11.7 I assigned, that is afther installing a game and several programs. It can run a game play music and burn a cd at same time. 4.
Its well worth your money. There wont be another major release of Windows for several years. Althought the building and testing is still in progress. So you won't have to upgrade for another good 3 or 4 years, by that time your computer will be so out dated it woulden't be wise to upgrade. So this is for keeps. 5.
P>my thoughts, I think XP is a success bringing Windows 9X and NT into one. Its the most powerful of any operating system by far, except XP 64bit and XP .Net which is not for most of us. The price will only fall as time goes by. I would not recommand any computer under 533mhz. 533 is right amount to run most of the features in XP. I recommand getting XP Home edition upgrade if you have previous versions of Windows. Also another stick of memory which is inexpensive.P>If your gonna buy a preinstalled XP computer I recommand Hewlett Packard computers with "Windows XP Media Center Edition" installed. Its a new version of XP with the ability to view dvd's, home movies, watch tv, record tv programs, back up tv programs to hard drive or a DVD, tv guide, listen to music and much more in a clean, simple, and beautiful interface with a remote sitting on your couch. XP will work on all computers built afther 1999 and many before that. Even HP pavilion. Its wise to do a fresh install, which can be abit complicated for beginners so call some one to do it for you. Tips---
Right click on My Computer in the start menu and click properties and you'll have the ability to do system restore, change the visual aspects, change how the memory will be used, processing proirty, virtual memory, and remote assistance. in the display properties, right click on desktop and properties, go to appearance tab and effects. Chnage standard to cleartype. The text you see on the screen will look much better, darker, clearer, and easy for the eyes. Use windows catalog when buying hardware for XP, its 100% compatable with XP.
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Summary: Upgrade Problems from Windows ME
Review: Upgrade from Windows ME failed after first hour of install process. I had carefully run the upgrade advisor and reviewed the full report for each impacted hardware or software package. Still had problems with instructions being fuzzy or unclear, e.g., motherboard Intel XP drivers, Eventually I performed a new install and lost all of my files in My Documents and Outlook which had been hosed by the failed install. Many other programs when reinstalled recovered the data still in Program and Files directories. Spent 20 hours dowloading, reinstalling various software packages and drivers. Unfriendly interface for installing pre-XP drivers and software that I had no plan to upgrade. Roxio 4.2 was upgraded from ROXIO site download and it works to write CD by DIrect CD, but can't read Direct CDs generated from later version of ROXIO used at work. A ROXIO problem not Microsoft. Roxio before the XP upgrade was compatible with version I had at work. Canon Multipass C755 reinstall for XP was clunky and inconsistent. Scanner never made it into the control panel for scanners. Still can reach the scanner for applications that hunt for Twain Scanners like Omnipage 11. C755 works better under XP and doesn't crash the system. On Windows ME it constantly crashed the system Upgrading is almost not worth it, better to buy a new machine with XP pre-installed and all of drivers for the new hardware and save 20 hours.
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Summary: Disappointed in XP
Review: I just email Microsoft about this disappointing product. After 100 hours of attempting installation, I have finally given up. My PC is only 2 months old and has the new ASUS A7V8X motherboard. The installation "Bombed". After over 100 hours of attempting and over 2 hours on the microsoft tech line, this product is going back. The question is: Who should give me my refund: Amazon or Microsoft? I am headed back to 98 Second Edition. Life is to short for the staigthening out of the Microsoft bugs. BEWARE if you are a knowledgable user.
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Summary: Great upgrade to windows
Review: Let me start by saying do not attempt to upgrade unless you are going to do a clean install. Use the opporunity to reformat your hard drive and get rid of all the excess waste that has built up on your system over the years. If you do this and download the proper printer driver ahead of time you will be rewarded with the fastest, most stable and user friendly version of Windows ever, as well as a lot of extra disk space on your hard drive. I lost many hours trying to install over Windows ME to no avail and finally decided to backup all my important files and bite the bullet with a clean install. My E-machines 466 Celeron runs faster than ever before and it boots up faster than my friends HP Pentium III running windows ME. I love the updates to my pictures and being able to record CD-Roms with no extra software. The stability is perfect. After three weeks I have only had to reboot the computer one time due to a freeze up or "Blue Screen". This compares to once every other day with Window's ME
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Summary: Software/beware
Review: I received the wrong product, and cannot get it exchanged.
Therefore, it is worthless, and a lot of money was spent.
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Summary: The BEST version of Windows yet!
Review: If you are still running Win98 SE...upgrade!! If you are running WinNT, I'm sorry :) But you REALLY need to upgrade (to Home Edition if at home, or Professional Ed if at a business). If you were suckered into upgrading from Win98 SE to Win Millenium Edition like I was, feel free to toss the WinME disc in the trash, but BUY this one! WinXP Home Edition (HE) is as big a jump from Win98 SE as Win98 was from Win95, or as Win95 was from Win 3.1. What's better is that the huge benefits can be invisible to the casual user, so if you are not very computer-savvy, don't worry. Some of the best features: Remote Assistance (now you can help a friend, or get help, via the internet from someone on the otherside of the world), Stability (the 1st home version to have the stability of WinNT and Win 2000 Pro), awesome Wizards (can't figure out how to write a CD or Scan a picture...with WinXP you'll learn it in 5 minutes!), sleek new look (though you can revert to the old look), multiple accounts (if you have a whole family using the same PC, you can nicely keep everyone separated), System Restore (some glitch crop-up after you installed a driver or program? undo it with System Restore!), Home Networking (want to great a Local-Area Network in your house...no problem, there's a wizard for that too!), etc, etc If you are thinking about buying it...buy it :)
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Summary: Support is awful
Review: Mistake. I hope others have better luck with this OS than I did. I have spent most of my holiday trying to get my wireless card to work. On hold from MSFT for 5 hours! Techs would cut me off often. May uninstall back to 98 SE.
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Summary: Buyer Beware!
Review: I tried to upgrade from Win 98 to Windows XP and it did not work. According to the system requirements I should have had no problem. I called tech support (a toll call!!!) and the tech walked me thru a parallel installation which also did not work. I had to reinstall Win 98 which reformats your hard drive first so back up all your files if you are going to try this. I talked to a couple of techie types about this problem and they said that you can't use the upgrade version, that you have to buy the full version of XP. I've always defended Microsoft in the past but now I feel like my Pentium III, 500 mghz, 256 sdram machine is obsolete and I will be forced to buy a new machine.
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