I have it installed and find it the most stable of anything I have used so far. It has some wonderful features like a rollback feature to a previous time if you screw things up (my specialty)
It also has an easy to use cd burning program built into it that I like.
I think it is well worth the upgbrade price and would recommend it.
-dan
Posted by Jim Upchurch (Member # 209) on :
I'm happy with it too. The best OS I've used so far, I'd recommend it if you have compatable hardware.
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
theres the key words COMPATABLE HARDWEAR/SOFTWEAR.... so that puts about 80% that come here....in the STAY WITH WIN98SE corner.....i would look into removable hard drives if you want to play with your work computer.....this way you can have your XP and all the good/bad that it has to offer and you still got "what works".....
Posted by David Wright (Member # 111) on :
I would like to see more opinions from others here as to how satisfied they are. Does anyone use Windows 2000? Is XP our only upgrade choice now?
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
I bought Windows XP after checking very carefully that my desktop and its related hardware was compatible. WRONG. Turns out it wasn't. Okay, Plan B. I have a laptop that I bought last spring, pretty darn up-to-date and tried to install it there. Won't work either. I'm fairly computer savvy but finally gave up, put it back in the box and threw it in the closet.
At least I'm enjoying the free CD-burner I got when I bought XP.
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
well.. no more certification for nt 4 users. that means no more support soon. win 2k will follow suit soon after nt4 bites the dust.
XP works really good on New systems like my P4 1.7 machine. But, nutin in my design stuff works. And i saw a price where it will costs 200 bux to get an XP upgrade for one package.
Bye the way,, if that XP package is gatherin dust in da closet, u can send it to me so i can use it for the scholarship group. You know we can only use one package assigned to one one machine now..
Any way,i have one machine with win98 for work. and one with XP on a hard drive to play. and another hard drive with win 98 for a backup. its fun.. But, look waht M$ is doing. 200 bux to upgrade every 2 years.........yup. look what they are gooona do.
[ January 29, 2002: Message edited by: Curtis hammond ]
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
the problem with the people who buy the GREATEST, LATEST, BESTEST....is they are what P.T. BARNUM made his great wealth from....so...dont feel alone "buckey" theres a lot more like you that make the same mistake.....was told long time ago by a computer programer(now this was back when DOS 4.0 was the hot ticket)he said:" always stay one version behind the newest one, this way you will always have a working computer, let the "beta bunnies" find all the problems."
Posted by Jim Upchurch (Member # 209) on :
The upgrade price is $100. $95 at Costco or perhaps similar warehouse clubs. The $200something price was for the non-upgrade full version. I had bugs in Win98 that seems to have been solved in XP. No more lockups or crashes either. I hadn't bought an upgrade since Win95, the 98 upgrade I had was for beta testing the thing for 14 months and I had much more trouble with that final release than I did with XP. But some people never do get it working right with their hardware. It never will support the myriad of stuff 98 did so waiting may not solve a particular problem.
Posted by Ed Harris (Member # 586) on :
I'm haveing a little bit of problem with my Camm1 driver at the moment (see Camm1 & XP), but I'm confident I'll work it out. The drivers for 98 weren't were no picnic either, as I recall. Otherwise, XP works great, both in my older P2 invironment as well as the newer athlon 1600. Every aplication to date starts up and runs faster and more efficiently so far. I would go so far as to say that MS may actually have gotten this version more 'finished' than any previous I've worked with. After all, one of their most stable programs, later versions of SE, still has gobs of 'critical' and 'recommended' updates. And it still crashes fairly regularly. I've been running XP for several weeks and so far, so good.
