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I have been using XP for about 6 months. Beta 1 through RC2. So far my only real gripe is the activation process. We have the same copy running on 3 different systems. We just called MS and they gave us activation codes for the 2 other systems. I doubt that they will do that with the final release. The wife is happy cause the SIMS runs better and faster with no crashes. The server which handles the Satellite internet system has been flawless. I would say that if you have W2K stay with it. If you are borderline on CPU or mem either upgrade or stay with W98 other wise go with XP. It is worth it just for the stability. The odds are that if you are having stability problems or blue screen then your system is not really that stable. All in all it is the best MS has offered BUT I dont like the MS greed that comes with it.
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In my opinon win95 was the best is was not that quarky by the time it reached verB. Win98 is too much of a memory hog but if you have a cheaper system you can gat away with it now. I use 2000 pro and server and find them great as a home use machine. I have office xp and activated it. Not too happy about that. It says no information is transfered to microsoft, Yea sure it's not. Then i hear if you decide to change memory or a cd-rom you have to reactivate it again? What's next you buy a PC that hooks you automatically to the MSN network you don't have a choice then you run a citrix session to you're "personalized" desktop configured by microsoft on what you should want. This way they can shadow you're session 24/7 each click of the mouse? I tend to believe these rumors, they're already in a anti-trust case, and they have demonstrated the behavaior time and again. Mark my words the way were headed, miroshaft will be selling them that way in the next 5-10 years.
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LAYZ That seems to be the way we are headed. I had a brief stint with a rather large firm in Dallas. Over 200 work stations and each work station was activated by a smart card. All work stations were dummies and you logged in with your smart card which contained your configuration. Management and the Admin decieded what programs you could use and how you operated. The terminals didnt have any drives. I can envision the day when we will all have dumb terminals and will log on to a central main frame. It is a long way off but I believe that is the direction we are going. Kinda scarey!! :( :(
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I am using RC2 and I think it's a bit buggier than RC1. But all in all, it's a great O.S. I don't mind the System Activation. I don't mind having to call Microsoft to reactivate XP, because the machine I will be installing XP Gold on will be my dream machine. And I won't plan on changing anything for a long long time. But even if I had to call MS, I wouldn't mind. I spend 45 minutes on hold for other things that I don't use as much as my P.C. So if the call takes more than 15 minutes, then we have some problems!!
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Format It i'm not busting on you but your dream machine will be just that, a dream. What is top end today is in tomorrows garbage can. Take this into mind, Lets say you bought a faulty cd-rom drive it worked for a few days then it quit. You can't get the same drive because the company went to a newer model. Guess what the Xp POS oops sorry OS thinks your trying to move it to anouther machine. You have to reactivate it agian. So you spend 20mins on replacing the drive. anouther 20mins trying to get microsaft on the phone, most likly on hold for an hour. so you wasted 1hr and 20mins on a cd-rom. that took you 20mins to install. I worked on customer machines in the field they moan about everything. Try billing them for your time and see the reactaion they get for just installing a cd-rom. I gave a guy a break on a hard drive and a total reload of his system for $250. He had the balls to say, "jesus for a couple of hundred more i could have bought a new machine." If you want to waste your time talking to MS go ahead u have better things to do.
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My dream machine will be MY dream machine. I've been using the same setup for almost 4 years now. And I'm happy with how it has worked for me. I'm just upgrading for the need (well maybe not need :) )to upgrade...W2K/WXP. And, I've swapped out some things on my PC to test the activation, I pulled a cd-rom/video card/nic from a spare machine at work and took it home, threw them on my machine and and started it up and guess what?????? It was OK. Didn't ask to be reactivated. I think people are too worried about XP. Unless you're changing hard drives or motherboards, I don't think you'll need to worry about XP's Activation.
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I've heard a much shorter explanation of dvader's initial post - WinXP is Win2000 for dummies.
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layz you are not quite understanding how the product activation works...basically it takes four parts of your machine, HD, Processor,RAM and NIC address...I believe. CDRoms are not including nor is anything else. Basically you can change any one of those as many times as you wish you can change up to 3 of them as many times as you wish. If you change all four within a 6 to 8 month period the OS will require you to call in to reactivate. I've done it and it take 5 minutes...you give them a serial number that the OS gives you and they give you a new activation code. It's really very simple and really it took 5 minutes.
I am not a supporter of WPA but it certainly is not what you just described, that's just misinformation.
Dante, those people who are currently using Win2K will not see any real reason to switch over to XP, and why should they?
But for users who are still using 98 it will be a better choice since now they'll have an OS with an NT Kernel, real memory managerment and if they choose to upgrade to the pro version multiple processor capability. Xp is what 98/ME should have been. So basically those that say XP is Win2K for dummies are calling 98 users dummies.
Although I really don't see what is so difficult about running W2K, still some users will find XP a bit easier. And that's who it's targeted for anyway. I'll tell you this much, XP is a helluva lot more backwards compatible that even 98SE is.
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The only opinion I have so far is that I paid the extra $10 because I wanted RC2 on CD vs. downloading it.... (I thought it would be cool to have the CD)...
instead they sent RC1 and two days later told me to download RC2... ARGGGH....
looks like bill was running short on cash or something :mad:
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pga how much did you pay total? Because $10 is what we all paid for the download version. Do you mean that you paid $20?
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The others have it right. It's going to be great for clueless home users, but anyone who has half a clue & corporate entities should stay away from it.
Personally, I LOVE the remote desktop feature, as I can remote in and fix/show a {l}user's machine right out of the box.
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The $20 is for the CD version of RC1, and the download version of RC2.
I've been using XP RC2 for about a month now. Only complaint is the MPA. That's a bunch of crap. Otherwise, it's stable, and the only compatibility issue I've had was with Norton 2001.
Otherwise, it rocks! Im running K6-2 550, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD. It flies.
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Great reviews and comments, everybody. I guess I'll stick with W2K until some compelling reason comes up to switch... :)
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Ok,were all checking out this OS,however it would be in the best intrest to check it out on the two platforms;intel/amd.There are some suttle differences between how these two work with this OS.For instance,clear text works fine on the intel machine I'm using,but not on the amd side,basically the desktop icons.Systray is funky on the amd side,volume icon dosen't display unless you reboot the machine.?.Is anyone noticing fluctuations of explorer.exe in task manager?I get that on the intel side.And it's like a car.When opening up task manager,it stops,and it won't do it all the time.Also fluctuations of svchost.exe system(the one with the more memory allocated).Sure hope the hcl list is expanded by the time this OS hits the stores,or we're really going to be earning our money.Don't even want to get in to what I had to do to get my scanner working.Oh yeah that's another thing.Any one that's going to be upgrading to xp might be fooled to think that they're going to have to upgrade their periferals,so check out what's going to be going in the trash,I will. :D ;) :D
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DJSEARCHING,
I've been using Windows XP on two AMD machines and haven't had any more problems than the my Intel machines have given me. My Laptop is an older Toshiba AMD CPU and cleartype is beautiful on it.
