[RESOLVED] Reasons to love XP

Darren Wilson · October 4th, 2001, 04:38 PM

Originally posted by Falcon:
Darren, you don't work for Microsoft...do you?

I wish I did

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Darren Wilson · October 4th, 2001, 04:40 PM

Originally posted by Cobra:
Weird...after upgrading from 2K, I've had no problems with ZA in XP Corp, or RC2 (the first version it was supposedly disabled in). Also, got it to work from a clean install, but I had to run the install in 2000 compatibility mode...still worked fine after install with no other caveats.

It worked fine for me upon the upgrade, but after a reboot, it wouldn't load the Vector control. Using Norton Firewall now which gives a lot less alerts than ZA so I can get on with other things instead of checking what the alert is on ZA.

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Abit KT7A-RAID (Rock F'n Solid!!!) - AMD Athlon 1Ghz (10x100) - 1024Mb PC133 SDRAM - ATI Radeon (AGP4X) - Maxtor ATA100 30Gb - 2 x Seagate ATA66 (RAID 0 totalling 26Gb) - Toshiba SD-1202M DVD - Plextor PlexWriter 2410A (Buy One!!!!) - Creative Labs SB Live! Value (No Pops , Hiss or Crackles here) - 20" Eizo Flexscan Monitor - Microsoft Windows XP Professional OEM Final Release

**Larommi** · October 4th, 2001, 11:11 PM

Originally posted by Darren Wilson:
It worked fine for me upon the upgrade, but after a reboot, it wouldn't load the Vector control. Using Norton Firewall now which gives a lot less alerts than ZA so I can get on with other things instead of checking what the alert is on ZA.

DW, that is what it did to me. I would relaunch it and it would put the icon in the systray with an "x" in it then I closed and relaunched and it ran...like I said pita but it worked. Too bad xp did not like my configuration, I had to take it off anyhow.

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I think it is time to open this!!

Darren Wilson · October 5th, 2001, 02:23 AM

Originally posted by Larommi:

DW, that is what it did to me. I would relaunch it and it would put the icon in the systray with an "x" in it then I closed and relaunched and it ran...like I said pita but it worked. Too bad xp did not like my configuration, I had to take it off anyhow.

Wouldn't restart after closing though for me, but Norton, I feel, does a better job which is a personal preference.

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Abit KT7A-RAID (Rock F'n Solid!!!) - AMD Athlon 1Ghz (10x100) - 1024Mb PC133 SDRAM - ATI Radeon (AGP4X) - Maxtor ATA100 30Gb - 2 x Seagate ATA66 (RAID 0 totalling 26Gb) - Toshiba SD-1202M DVD - Plextor PlexWriter 2410A (Buy One!!!!) - Creative Labs SB Live! Value (No Pops , Hiss or Crackles here) - 20" Eizo Flexscan Monitor - Microsoft Windows XP Professional OEM Final Release

**Larommi** · October 5th, 2001, 11:47 AM

Originally posted by Darren Wilson:
Wouldn't restart after closing though for me, but Norton, I feel, does a better job which is a personal preference.

That's cool. I really have no idea what is or is not happening on mine so I might try that out.

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I think it is time to open this!!

Jpbtennisman · October 6th, 2001, 09:12 AM

XP = looks badass

hehehe

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DVader · October 8th, 2001, 03:26 PM

I love XP because of the Win2K kernel stability and the Win9x compatability. I like the new look to.

I hate it because of the new Product Activation stuff. I think that will keep alot of people away from it.

In regaurds to formating, has anyone else setup an unpartitioned drive and install XP on it. I've used both the Format with NTFS(Fast) and Fat(Fast) option and they have been great!! It is quite impressive to see a OS partition and format a new (out of the box) 40gig HD in 30 seconds!

[This message has been edited by DVader (edited October 08, 2001).]

Pendragon · October 9th, 2001, 07:04 PM

Originally posted by Gilbertk:
I will vait for the second edition to came out. I did that with Win95, Win98 . I installed Win2000 in my computer and after spending a saturday setting up all the drivers I got a message : " There is a update for Windos 2000 on the internet, would you like to update?" I click ok. After downloading and apply the update it rebooted my computer. It never finnish the boot, crash after crash, the computer never boot again. I erased and installed Win98 second edition. Never use verion 1.00 from any Microsoft product!!

XP "IS" the Ver 2.0 of the OS, Win2K was the Ver 1.0...

Win2000 (origanly called NT-5) was suposed to be the replacment for both NT4 & Win98, but the games software side of MS had a suprise for the OS dept. some of their MS branded games of less than 2 years old wouldn't run on Win2K... but it was too late to change the name back to NT-5, they had to stick with Win2K. That's why WinME was called ME not 2000, the name had already gone to NT-5, what a F**K UP

P.S. I think I'm falling in love with XP... the colours must be hypnotic, MS=Mind Control? Ha...

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drdoug99 · October 11th, 2001, 01:12 AM

Darren Wilson....how can you have so many posts?? You've been here one month, and have made 253 posts per day!!! isn't there a flood control on this forum?

I find that pretty amazing, having so many post..wow.

as to XP, I like it alot, after I customized it to my liking, of course, I like any OS after I customize it to my liking

Runs fast, stable, plays any game and program I throw at it.

To the people that was having problems with ZA. I had the same problem. Windows would boot up, ZA would try to initlize True Vector, it would close down. I hit teh ZA icon, it would get the "X" in the sys tray, I would close it, reopen, it would work fine.

WTF is up with that? I never figured it out. So then I went with Tiny Firewall, after putting up with ZA for a month like that. Tiny was good, but I was never that good with the rulesets, so I went back to ZA Pro. This time, it worked fine, as of now, it still works fine. Weird.

As to product activation, that doesnt bother me, since I could care less what Micorsoft does with my information, plus it's highly likely they would single me out of the other 270 million americans.

DJSEARCHING · October 11th, 2001, 01:59 AM

Bios,memory,and processor upgrade$ for the people who won't be buying new systems.

Still looking for a reason to love it though.

Darren Wilson · October 11th, 2001, 11:46 AM

Originally posted by drdoug99:
Darren Wilson....how can you have so many posts?? You've been here one month, and have made 253 posts per day!!! isn't there a flood control on this forum?

Because I originally registered way back in August 1998 but took a 'absence of leave' a few months ago and reregistered. The Admin was kind enough to restore my post count for me

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mpeton · October 15th, 2001, 10:28 AM

Originally posted by Darren Wilson:
Wouldn't restart after closing though for me, but Norton, I feel, does a better job which is a personal preference.

Agree with you there. Norton seems to pickup on more activity anyways. I also love the cookie protection Norton gives you. Of course, I simply run both, as an extra level of protection, and also to check up on each other. Zone Alarm allowed a Trojan to pass through it, wile Norton picked it up right away.

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Dav · October 16th, 2001, 11:24 PM

Originally posted by Dav:
I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive. It was sent via Fedex yesterday, should get here tomorrow

I finally received it, and installed it. Been running it for over a week. To be honest, other than moving a few thing around, changing the color, or way things are shown, I'm not all that impressed.

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DJSEARCHING · October 17th, 2001, 01:05 AM

Dav,what are you saying.You just got rc-1?Didn't you get the email from conxions to download rc-2?You would have gotten to try it out sooner if you did.

jeremy_tosha · October 17th, 2001, 08:33 AM

I am running winXP pro corporate edition without any problems so far...

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