Windows XP??

[Barry]

I'm wondering if there are any thoughts, comments, or experiences with XP. I am a big fan of Win2000, i guess XP is alot like it structurally. I can't see a reason to change from 2000 except to get the latest pizaz....which I really dont need. Or do I, are there any changes that might affect stability or performance..for real. Thanks for any input!

Barry

[Bullines]

For the most part, Windows XP Pro (not Home) is essentially Windows 2000 SP3.

The kernel is the same. The main difference is the UI and a few added features (remote desktop, a light-weight firewall, slightly more compatibility with some older apps). If the budget allows it, upgrading to XP Pro would be a nice-to-have thing. If your budget doesn't allow for the upgrade, you don't have anything to lose sleep over. Hope this helps

[kwolf]

Hi Bullines,

And how about performance? Is it degraded on the same machine or not especially on old machines PIII 450Mhz , 256 Mb RAM and 128 Mb RAM?

Thanks

[Bullines]

On my home computer (PIII 800 and 768MB RAM), I didn't notice any performace degredation from Windows 2000 to Windows XP. If anything, somethings are faster with XP like startup time, application launch times and a few other things. Lower-end systems will probably experience a performance hit. This is likely due to the new UI. This can be remedied by using the old interface instead and shutting down unncecessary services. And I wouldn't recommend XP for systems with less than 128MB RAM and maybe even 256MB. And finally, before you upgrade to XP, download Microsoft's Windows XP Advisor Tool to make sure your current hardware and software will get along with XP.

[kwolf]

thanks Bullines.

[Charles Davis]

I haven't run Mastercam on it yet (waiting for my new CD from Dell).

But my wife (who works with me, runs accounting and publishing software) was having very frequent (4+ per day!) crashes on her computer runnin win98.

She got XP Professional, and the crashes stopped completely.

I'm sold.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Windows 98 is not much of an OS IMHO. I have a PC for the kid's games with it and it's pretty unstable. If they didn't play games, you bet I'd be bumping them up to Windows 2000 Pro or XP.

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

I updated my Dell laptop to XP for demos on the road. I love it. Far less embarassing crashes while running software (any software). Performance has improved as well. 650MHz w/512 Meg.

[cadcam]

Well i just did the same thing Todd Tracey did updated my Demo box to full XP.

Last week and spet some time over the weekend palying with mastercam on it.

So far i like it no hickups yet.

I am just about ready to do my other station here soon if al goes well.

[Bullines]

I hope everyone visits Windows Update for needed updates and downloads the Windows XP Powertoys after installing XP

[cadcam]

Bullins i go to the update page alwas.

But did not know about the other.

Thanks.

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[Bullines]

My favourite Powertoys are:

1. Open Command Window Here

- comes in handy for those of us that trust certain tasks to the command-line

2. Alt-Tab Replacement

- this one comes in handy when you have multiple windows with the same title

3. Tweak UI

- an old favourite

- great way to tweak the UI to help out the older and slower computers

[cadcam]

Later on I will give them a try my self.

And then I post my favorites.

if you come up with any other little tricks for XP please let us know.

Thanks jay

[Bullines]

quote:

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if you come up with any other little tricks for XP please let us know

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Where to begin?

[cadcam]

Let's get this right you have found a hole bunch?

Well start up Word and start typing,My fax is wide open for you.

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[Bullines]

That might take a while If anyone has something in mind that they'd like to discuss, might as well do it here so all XP users can benefit.

[cadcam]

Ok blue or silver back rounds.

Win XP?

[JAMMAN]

Glad to see Tweak UI is back. They dropped it in 98SE but if you have an old 98 disk lying around it still works in SE. Didn't even try it in 2000 figuring nt wouldn't like it.

[Bullines]

Tweak UI 1.33 was available separately from the Powertoys for any version of Windows (9x, ME, NT, 2000). You can still download it here.

[JAMMAN]

I guess you told me!

BTW- I got that virus again a couple minutes ago.

It's funny you don't have to run the attachment.

[Bullines]

Which virus did you get, if you don't mind me asking?

[JAMMAN]

The thread This is the thread, man.

[Bullines]

Are you using Outlook Express? If so, which version?

[JAMMAN]

Version 5 at work (where I got the virus- twice) and version 6 at home. I used to be a big fan of Netscape until I needed multiple mails. I hear they added multiple mail but I'm getting handy at configuring OE for just about any situation. The one time I let Norton configure my mail for virus checking I no longer could do mail. It changed my pop and smtp servers to some strange ip address that simply did not work. Do you have a good way to keep viruses (viri?)away?

Do you know we hijacked another thread?

[Reece L Gibson]

Will XP handle RAID? (Redundant Array Independent Disk)

I'am running a Iwill Board