Does anyone else hate windows xp?

[gizmo1979]

Man I hate Microsoft!My computer crashed and had to reload windows.What a pain in the ass!The disc I borrowed I had to register and I had to jump through hoops to get that done,got it with 1 day remaining.I still get these goofy little pop ups thanks to Microsoft.ARGHHHHH.

[jobycom]

1. Yes, and no

It drives me crazy. It takes over my machine sometimes and I have to sit and watch while it churns away. I get blue screens a lot, though they have lessened the longer I've run it on my computer.

But what it does well, it does well.

Since you had to register, I guess you upgraded to it from an older OS? That's the hardest route--too many old devices and software programs can't handle the new system. It works better if you buy it already installed on a new system.

[coloradodem2005]

2. It is irritating.

But Windows ME is a worse program overall.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. Windows Millenium is the worst operating systen in the history...

...of the universe. Man, what a piece of crappo THAT was!:thumbsdown:

[DS1]

14. At least it didn't need Kickstart!

:D

[AntiCoup2K4]

24. No shit! What the Hell was Gates thinking with that turd anyhow?

"Well, I can't really upgrade you Win 98 users to a decent stable OS like I am the NT folks. So instead I'll sell you this total piece of shit and hope you don't notice"

If I had actually PAID for Windows ME, I might have been tempted to drive up to Redmond and beat someone's ass. It's bad enough I had to wipe my drive totally in order to put Win 98 SE back on.

[name not needed]

My old Dell had Windows Millennium on it

I'd leave it on continuously because It would take 8 hours to boot up at times.

[fujiyama]

25. Gotta agree

that was a piece of shit.

The original Windows '95 was terrible as well. God it had so many bugs...

Hmmm, then again XP is the only OS by MS that hasn't crashed every few hours. I'll give 'em that much credit.

[Deja Q]

3. product activation... a bit buggy, that is too.

I switched to Linux.

Requires some thinking, but since when is that bad?

Heck, in the early 1980s people bought Commodore 64s and they're EVEN MORE command-line driven than Linux.

[Placebo]

4. Macs are remarkably affordable these days.

;)

[Deja Q]

33. Depends on the purpose.

For e-mail and word processing? A $200 box can do that, compared to your $750 mini mac. Yes, $750. The base unit, which looks like a mod hot plate, is %500 but then you need a monitor. The low-end ones are $250. medium-low PCs with LCD monitors cost less and are more powerful than your mac mini. :-(

For video and 3D? You need the $3000 model. Pixar uses LINUX and we've all seen the wonders Pixar makes, so - once again - Mac is rendering itself extinct. :-(

I do keep forgetting about ease of use. But I'm no tactical advisor, I'm not supposed to know everything.


Okay, $200 box - I was thinking a standalone item. For a PC, it'd be about $500 with LCD monitor. Still better than the hot plate.

[all.of.me]

5. an acquaintance/computer guy says

xp = extremely pathetic

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. Actually I love XP. In the 2 years or so that I have had it ......

I've only had four crashes! It's true, they want it registered. There is one thing about it. It is more suseptable to viruses - I think - so make sure you have have AV and a Firewall always running on it! Also run a three spyware detectors on the system even though it's a fresh install! Get the updates from windows update! If you have any questions about updates - GET THEM - PM me.

[DS1]

10. Besides a catastrophic failure that was partly due to me being an idiot

I've never actually crashed my XP. AND when I first got it, I pushed it hard, really really hard.

Like opening up Quake3, then 3D studio Max with 4 more OpenGl windows, then Photoshop, then Flash, then Dreameaver, and just as I set off an intensive filter in Pshop I alt-tabbed back into Quake3 and it was slow but it worked.

[DS1]

8. I had a similar problem, after I tried to uninstall Service Pack 2. I did

have a similar problem with activation, having to call them and all ,but I stated my case and they rattled off about a thousand letters and numbers, and I was golden.

There are no perfect Operating Systems, and Windows provides me the Operating System required to run the applications I need to run without any hardware that's only available from one manufacturer. I like being able to replace the components of my computer as I please. My next upgrade will be swapping out the motherboard and CPU for a 64 bit version, and Windows XP probably won't even notice.

If you hate XP so much download a linux package.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

11. HA HA HA HA! If which Distribution? lol.

[DS1]

13. Pick one. What's your point?

Fill me in on the joke.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

16. I've talked to some good Linux users and they had a problem

getting one that worked right.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

18. No insult intended.

[DS1]

20. Well, like I said, there's no perfect Operating System

Weight the pros and cons of each and make your selection.

[terrya]

9. I bet it's not as bad as Windows ME

Which is what I have. It's hideous beyond words.

[DS1]

12. Microsoft IMO should have to upgrade all ME users to XP for free

If not that, then send all the ME users a letter of apology personally signed (and no Rummy stamping) by Bill Gates and Bill Palmer.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

15. It was bad. However after the first Services Pack came out

it got a lot better.

[terrya]

17. Thank you!

Windows ME, in my opinion, is the worst piece of shit Microsoft has ever come up with. They SHOULD upgrade all ME users for free.

[MidwestMomma]

35. Thank you...That's what I've been saying for years

Everytime I complain to someone about ME, they always tell me I should upgrade to XP. And I always say the Bill Gates should send me and every ME abused user a free upgrade. And now that you mentioned it, the free upgrade should come with a personally signed letter.

ME=MIghtyEff'dUP

[many a good man]

19. XP SP2 is really really stable

Light years better than any of their previous releases. Just buy yourself a hardware firewall/router, AV software, and use Firefox. Piece of crap software may crash periodically, but Windows will be OK.

[DS1]

21. Actually I'm tracking a huge memory leak

sometimes when I wake up I find that it's paged over 800 MBs. Oopps! :D

I'll get it eventually, restarting explorer.exe does the trick till then

[ladjf]

34. Check out the Norton utilities. There's an executable called

something like CAPP.EXE that can hog all the memory even when nothing is going on. Run the task manger on processes to see what's slowing you down. Also, it doesn't hurt to have about 525 megs of RAM. It's cheap.

[DS1]

37. I have 512

and did just recently get the newest Norton, and have wondered :wtf: all those new processes were. Thanks for the tip

[Crazy Guggenheim]

38. Run Windows Doc.. Disk Doctor - though you'll have to reboot

the system. Make sure that Fix free Sapce is enabled. Then so a defrag!

[DS1]

40. "Windows Doc.. Disk Doctor " huh?

What's the Doc part?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

41. It's a part of Norton Utilities.

[DS1]

42. Ah

I didn't get N Utilities, just AV

[Crazy Guggenheim]

45. You can do the scan disk and defrag through Windows. But

I would advise to get a copy of Norton Utilities. Maybe you can borrow an old copy from a friend.

[gizmo1979]

47. everytime I load s2

my computer slows to a slow crawl!Almost a dead stop.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

49. Back up your whole system, format the drive and reinstall.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

22. Did you upgrade or do a fresh install?

[gizmo1979]

48. After the crash

I added more memory.This has been a whole month of messing with this thing for hours every night.I'm basically learning all my computer skills as I go so I make mistakes to which add to the problem.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

51. Run a spyware-virus check on it. First do a scan disk to check for

errors.

[miss_kitty]

23. I used to have a lot of trouble with mine but I learned so much about

PCs because of it. Shit I had to reload 3 months after I got it, repair disk a couple months later, and reloaded on Xmas Eve 2003 and again in Xmas day 2003 (bad prompt. there's a time that you are prompted to "press any key to continue" and you just shouldn't :().
Then I ask for a replacement. they brought one that looked just like mine and said it was exactly the same, but it wasn't. It was filthy, and had 30 GB less than my C drive, which would put me at over half full right now.

I cried myself to sleep that night. I called up the place the next day and they reformatted and brought my old one back. Now, if I have a problem, I either Turn Off my computer or power down, if I have to. I use system restore. And since then, I have only had to do a couple things other than those three options, like deleting the Nvidia thing, and deleting and reinstalling a couple of programs whose .dll applications were :grr:FUBAR:grr: by a :grr:Zone Alarm:grr: update:nuke:.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

26. Never ever get a Windows OS until the first Service Pack

comes out!

[Nomad559]

27. XP

I never have any problems with XP, I haven't had a blue screen In a couple of years. (Due to bad graphic driver)
I sometimes have a third party programs crash, but never a problem with XP.
For a stable running XP system, you need to use stable software drivers and use the latest firmware for all of your hardware. Bad graphics drivers are the most common problems with XP crashing.

I am really beginning to hate my Linux SuSE system, less than a week after a fresh Install of SuSE Pro 9.3, I had to re-Install It because the system froze up on me, why did It freeze up on me?
I forgot to shut down the KsCD player when I shut down the system. When I restarted the system, the KsCD player Icon was In the taskbar, and the system was frozen, I had no cursor or CD drive.

The SuSE version of Firefox Is also crap, I can not make some changes to the browser, like using themes. If I try to use themes, or try downloading files with Firefox, the browser will crash.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

29. That system reminds me of what windows was 10+ years

ago. Getting updates for Linux is a pain with the stable, more stable, etc. is nonsense. Yes it seems they do have security updates coming out every week.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

28. You should make sure the Drivers are signed in XP.

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[Crazy Guggenheim]

36. Right Arm! I don't get the thing about some people - and we won't

mention who - don't save their system CDs. I have a Windows 2000 system also. It's been stable.

[fluffernutter]

31. YES!!!

it is such a pain in the ass. microsoft is pissing me off lately.

[gizmo1979]

50. That whole

voice activated operator freaks me out.

[Chicago Democrat]

32. I love it compared to all the other Windows products before.

Plus I'm not dissing Microsoft cause they went pro-gay again.

[valis]

39. I've had my problems... But they were mostly due to spyware/viruses

I've been pretty happy with it for several months now...

[Crazy Guggenheim]

43. The best way to run the Spyware packages is to boot into

Safe Mode.

[ghostsofgiants]

44. I hate Microsoft in general

But haven't really had too many complaints about XP. It could be a lot better though, I'll say that much.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

46. I was ready to throw my ME out the "window" when I first got it!