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Originally posted by TheCiscoGuy:
One of my goals is to find the slowest machine that I can get XP to run on. So far an ancient 166 at work (48mb ram) has been it. I did something like that with windows 95  the slowest I managed to get it installed on was a 386sx 16 with 4 megs of ram now I may have to try that with XP now.
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Originally posted by Redcon96V4:
XP runs fine on 128 ram... still has some compatibily probs to be worked out... when i use kazaa i can't type in IE cuz it shuts IE down... can't run most older games I had that same problem under Win2k - thought I was the only one  It's fixed, but I'm unsure what fixed it.
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Originally posted by klavender:
Am I the only one that like Windows ME? I upgraded from 98 the ME and like it alot better. yes ... :p Win98 is my fav so far. Maybe it's just because the computer is so darn stable. Whodathunk a first-generation eMachines would be so efficient and quick? I'm still getting used to XP - hasn't crashed yet (except for a shutdown quirk which turned out to be a "feature" from the touchpad), which I find rejoiceful.
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UPDATE!!!
I went to install XP and has file copying issues. Turns out my hard drive is NFG,a POS, DOA, DRT, FUBARed, SNAFUed, it no worky. That is why my 98 install was so screwy! Okay VenomSVT, you can stop laughing now! So I'm off to Micro Center to start over. Caviar 40 gig 7200 rpm for $114.99. Basically, the saga continues!
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Originally posted by gwellington:
Although the question was between Win 95/98 and XP, let me just say, for those who love Win 2000, that neither I nor our techhies at work can get my Dell laptop, with Win 2000, to work with my Compuserve software (something about a security issue that won't allow Win 2000 to send a user id and password at the same time). So, yes, Win 2000 is a great, stable operating system, with the small problem that it doesn't work....
uhhhh why are you using compuserve?
The bottom line is that none of the current operating systems is really that good. Steve Wozniak, long ago, when asked if PC's had gotten to the point where they were as easy to use as any other household appliance, is credited with the quote "well...you don't see too many Maytag users' groups" uhhhh why are you using compuserve? Sounds like a Compuserver issue. I had no problems with XP....yes I'll say it I LOVE WINDOWS XP...lol
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I'm using CompuServe because I've used it since I bought my IBM PS2-30 in 1987 and have found it to be consistently reliable, not knocking me offline as my friends' ISP's do. The CompuServe issue, as I understand it, is that CompuServe expects the username and password to be in a single "packet" (forgive me if I'm using the wrong terminology), which works fine for Win98SE on my, my son's, and my wife's machines, but Win2000 for "security" reasons, will not allow passwords to be stored and will not send a username and password in a single packet. So there is a workaround script (scrip?) file on the CompuServe website that supposedly fixes the Win2000 problem, but doesn't work on the Dell. Soooo, according to our tech guy at work, it's a Microsoft-caused problem (and given the security holes in their software, it seems rather ironic), that CompuServe fixed, but the fix doesn't work on the laptop because of a Dell firmware issue.
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Originally posted by moxnix: Originally posted by klavender:
[b]Am I the only one that like Windows ME? I upgraded from 98 the ME and like it alot better. WIN98 crashed all the time for me. As soon as I upgraded to ME alot of problems went away. It hardly ever crashes now.
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The 9X Platform is trash!!!!!!!!!! ME being the worst!
XP or 2000 with at least 512 ram. You could probably find a free copy of 2k!
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Originally posted by AgSVT:
UPDATE!!!
I went to install XP and has file copying issues. Turns out my hard drive is NFG,a POS, DOA, DRT, FUBARed, SNAFUed, it no worky. That is why my 98 install was so screwy! Okay VenomSVT, you can stop laughing now! So I'm off to Micro Center to start over. Caviar 40 gig 7200 rpm for $114.99. Basically, the saga continues! HAHAHAHA..... I have no idea what you are talking about.  A reminder to everyone else. When you don't want your floppy disk overwrote....make sure you put the write-protect tab on. AgSVT let me know how it turns out with the new drive.
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