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Welcome to the new Windows XP forum. This forum is for issues relating to the soon-to be-released upgrade to Windows 2000 known as Windows XP. Any requests for the operating system itself or serial number should be promptly reported as offensive and will be removed.
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id like to see em fix the problem they have with win2k and ATI rage fury maxx 64 vid cards -=- though i despise MS - if im gonna run a MS product i want to run 2000
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I am as likely to use WinXP as I was to use WinME: Not happening. Somewhere, there has to be a limit on how much trash you are willing to put up with -- ME\XP is that line for me.
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I am not going to upgrade on the day of release or anything, but I do want to test drive it. Win2000 was the best thing to happen to my computer. (as far as MS operating systems go) XP is supposed to be the end-all home and business version of windows that 2000 was slated to be. But there will have to be some major advantages for me to get rid of my win2k any time soon.
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I don't think the beta (build 2296) is public. Best chances to get a version are with Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) if you have a 'professional' contract.
Hardware requirements are the same as with Win2000, some people are happy with 128 MB, some need more.
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I've played around with a Beta of WinXP.
Basically, there is a new shell "look" which come with a few extra enhancements. Boot time is about 8 times longer than with 98. Yes, it runs on NT kernal, but Win2k is MUCH more stable, AND has a shorter boot up time. As for drivers, all the ME and NT drivers I used worked fine. If you ask me, just get Win2k... its the best of all the MS operators.
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doofus i cant believe somebody that thinks he's opinions are worth publishing on the net can believe such rubbish about not advancing with the new operating systems, what are you using win95??...and if you just go and change everything to look like 95 when you get on it then you might has well just stay with it....and as for the amount of trash i can put up with i managed about half way down your page. now i know what a doofus is.....
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Actually Doofus, or dufus as you said, is infact spelt doofus, as in the Australian English dictionary , pub 1997.
Robbo
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I use windows3.1 windows95 windows98se windowsME and windows2000. By far the most stable is 2000 and 3.1....this is on my first PC and still runs like it did when i got it. All of the Operating Systems have there place. Some of us are gamers some for business some for web browsing email what ever. Dont spend money you dont have too. Does windows 95 work for you? Then keep it! Besides by the time windows 9X are truly obsolete i think you would have purchased a new PC by then. No matter how much you love that 1.5 hard drive ya gotta bury it sooner or later! lol "floppy? whats a floppy?" a question our grandchildren will ask!!!!
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Hard drives are getting stupid.
I have a 10gb one, never used more than 3gb,
thats with win98 and 2 variants of linux
installed.
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Amen to all.
After the last Windows upgrade, I remember Microsoft pulling out a full-page ad in the Business section of the NY Times and boasting "20 times" more stable than its previous version. I wonder what they will say this time.
Yes, how much more rubbish do we have to put up with before saying enough? I think MS should give XP free to those who have put up with 20 times less reliable Windows. That will still leave Bill the richest man on earth.
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[quote]Hard drives are getting stupid.
I have a 10gb one, never used more than 3gb,
thats with win98 and 2 variants of linux
installed.[/quote]ROTFLMAO...
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drivel:
XP is a joke doofus. for lamerz like yerself.
it boasts new features and i can do every1 of them on NT/2K.
besides a new interface, it is a hoax.
but smartguys, like yerself, will be camping out on XP eve, waiting for yer copy of the latest lameness.
I am arrogant, i think the world needs to read what i have to say. and i am sure i will be applauded by the whole world for letting you know, your lameness is exposed, so take your html based chat applet, and go talk at yahoo, where the 12 year olds will appreciate your unique brand of a life wasted.
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Lots of talk in the media about the digital divide, as if people who don't have a computer, modem, and ISP account will have no place in the "new economy." The bitter truth is that, using the Server edition of Whistler in combination with the Itanium CPU, the corporate IT elite will be making every single piece of computer hardware on the planet completely obsolete, and the entire concept of "making a living" along with it. 64 bit architecture means that no matter how fast, how many cycles per second, your CPU is running, every cycle of the Itanium chip will process twice as much.
"Q: Will Microsoft support Itanium with Whistler?
A: Whistler is being optimized to run on both x86 and Itanium processor architectures. Whistler will also be available in a 64-bit version designed to take advantage of the performance advancements of Itanium, such as large addressable memory support and machine check architecture (MCA)."The brand new computer that ships to your house TODAY will be as state of the art as a PS/2 286 one year from now.
Take a look for yourself:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/future/whistler.asp
If you're not already part of the IT elite, get into school now or the rest of your life will pass you by in a head-spinning a blur.
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i think that XP is a cool OS for people who never had contact with another OS. But I think it is only a stylish type of Win2000. I had tesed bouth . Now I use some drivers of XP under win2k . The ati fury maxx is supported under XP and i use this drivers for my card .
Greatings Sven
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any one here to help, i have a 20 gig ntfs partition the i can't access. when i check the partition with partition magic 7 , it says it's fat16, but inaccessible and damaged. any ideas how i can get my data back. right now if i click on it. it asks if i would like to format? please help
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I'm running into an XP nightmare when sharing network resources. The XP machine has a CD burner that I would like to share with the two Win98se machines on my network. Did my networking the "old fashion" way, i.e., assigning TCP/IP addresses to the Win98 while the XP is the gateway. Everyone is able to "see" everyone, data is shared beautifully, however, cannot share out the cd burner on the XP. Have done a drive map, have gone into the XP and "shared" out the burner (i can see the "hand" underneath the burner) but no sharing - Don't understand - HELP...
thanks for you help and insight
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