> From: Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >From: "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > > I've found WinXP to be very stable. > > > > >I'm having fits with Win98 SE on my home system. But I just can't bring > >myself to upgrade to WinXP because of the stupid licensing thing Microsoft > >is trying to pull. I thought about Win2K which I use at work and like but > >since my home system is mostly a gaming system, that would be problematic. > > > >But I might give in at some point and get XP. I don't know. > > > > Man, I *hated* and *loathed* Win95 and Win98. My computer would crash if I > gave it a sharp look. My CD Burner killed at least 1 disc out of every 5 > with buffer overruns. And just *try* hooking up (or unhooking) a > peripheral: I had to learn keystrokes to get myself in, through and out of > the System Control Panel because I had to open it in Safe Mode without a > Mouse at least once a month. The system didn't recognize my zip drive half > the time, and when it did, the odds are it would crash. > > Then, I bought Win2k Professional. My first experience with it was a really > long phone call with MS Tech support trying to get my old computer to accept > the installation. After that, my modem didn't work. More calls to tech > support. More fixes. > > And then... it never crashed. Not once. I put two computers through their > paces running win2k, and none of them ever crashed the computer. A program > did crash every once in a while, (perhaps twice) but I never, ever had to > 'look under the hood' and play with system settings.
Windows NT 4.0 is better (because you can set how much the foreground application gets CPU above the regular multitasking, wheras win2k has 2 settings; server use, home use). > But, Win2K is not for gamers. No way, no how. Starcraft was pretty much > the only game I ever ran on it. > > So, for this and a myriad of other reasons, I installed WinXP Pro. A clean, > easy install. No crashes. One problem: the Logitech Orbit Mouse I use at > home needed to be plugged in and out of the USB port to be recognized by the > system each time I restarted. I solved this little problem by connecting it > to the serial mouse port. (I assume there's a fix somewhere, but I've been > too lazy to search.) Windows XP adds alot of icky features that aren't neccessary and waste performance. > I can only offer you anecdotal advice, but I found both OS's vastly superior > to their predecessors. For pure benchmark performance NT 4 will toast all the others. > (Now I'm off to play with OS X and two new flat panel IMacs at work. :-) ) > Jon
