JB,
Yes, with much help from the collective, I have managed to throttle XP back
to LOOKING much the same as I am used to in w2K. And, on balance, I do not
have any serious negatives to raise against XP at sp2 or sp3. I can hang
with it! I will either do XP or I will just go Apple!
Best,
Duncan
At 19:44 11/21/2008 +0000, you wrote:
And as far as familiarity==comfort goes, XP behaves more or less
exactly the same as Windows 2000 in most situations, at least after a
few changes to the theme and the start menu settings.
On 21 Nov 2008, at 19:30, Greg Sevart wrote:
Oh, I wasn't trying to push Vista on you. I know full well that you
have no
willingness to move that far. However, I think you would be doing
yourself a
favor by at least moving to XP...since it is, afterall, still within
mainstream support. Win2k was fine when you were using hardware that
was
released while it was still in mainstream support...but those days
are gone.
I doubt that Intel with P45/ICH10, JMicron with the JMB636, or Asus
with the
board as a whole did extensive validation with Win2k. That's the
only point
I was trying to make.
Greg
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Thank you Greg,
But let us just agree to disagree. I fully accept that you use
Vista.
You
remain the single, vocal, early Vista adopter that seems to have
few/no
problems with Vista. I do not get the same feeling of others in this
collective that use Vista. Please, I do not wish to start another OS
war. Different strokes, after all!
I fully accept that you feel my 9-year old OS could be causing some
odd
issues. But, I will say that I have zero OS related problems in the 9
years
I have used w2kpro. W2k has been completely stable for my needs. I
will
deal with any problems as I migrate my machines to WinXPpro.
But, I do appreciate your comment.
Duncan
At 12:51 11/21/2008 -0600, you wrote:
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Subject: [H] Observations of the new Intel PC
dvdrom are AOK. I did complete a fully patched w2ksp4 install.
The OS
I strongly suspect this to be the cause of most of the oddities and
issues
you've encountered. Running a 9-year-old OS on 6-month-old
hardware is
just
asking for odd issues...
Greg
