Windows XP Constructive Criticism
I am really starting to dislike Windows XP. I've been running the Professional edition for about a month or so, and its starting to get to me. The integrated ZIP support is highly annoying. I tried the trick to unregister the ZIPFLDRS.
I am really starting to dislike Windows XP. I've been running the Professional edition for about a month or so, and its starting to get to me. The integrated ZIP support is highly annoying. I tried the trick to unregister the ZIPFLDRS [or something].DLL trick but still when I click a ZIP file or try to open up the properties page for it, I get near 100 % CPU use and a long delay before it comes up. I use Winrar 2.9 Final for my archiving purposes, forget WinZIP and I dislike WinACE.
With the same setup in Windows 2000 I got faster gameplay with Quake 3, 80 FPS to 68 FPS, Same setup, and everything else. I have a 750 Athlon with 512 megs of RAM and GeForce 2, and 7200 RPM hard disk with latest 23.11, but also tried 21.81, 21.83, 21.85, and a bunch of others. Maybe my PC is getting a bit old, but others report great performance on P3-500 or Celeron systems with 256 megs of RAM.
The new interface is getting to me so I switched back to classic view with the classic start menu. I tried to go back to the bubbly interface but I just couldn't do it. I am afraid in future revisions MS may get rid of the classic menu/look. I hope not.
I hope hard disk companies get on the ball and update their boot disks to support NTFS partitions so that I can use Maxtor's MaxBlast directly with NTFS. I had trouble getting rid of an NTFS partition so I ams sticking with FAT32, but really for my use I see no real advantage in using NTFS.
Working around the OS seems sluggish, I don't know why, things load quickly enough but still the mouse and other things just don't "feel" right to me. Take that for what its worth.
My only gripe is that companies may ditch support for 2000 in favour of XP, mostly game companies. But I hope that XP support will backwardly work with 2000.
What are some of your thoughts, praises, and criticisms of WinXP vs Win2k vs Win9x/ME?????
With the same setup in Windows 2000 I got faster gameplay with Quake 3, 80 FPS to 68 FPS, Same setup, and everything else. I have a 750 Athlon with 512 megs of RAM and GeForce 2, and 7200 RPM hard disk with latest 23.11, but also tried 21.81, 21.83, 21.85, and a bunch of others. Maybe my PC is getting a bit old, but others report great performance on P3-500 or Celeron systems with 256 megs of RAM.
The new interface is getting to me so I switched back to classic view with the classic start menu. I tried to go back to the bubbly interface but I just couldn't do it. I am afraid in future revisions MS may get rid of the classic menu/look. I hope not.
I hope hard disk companies get on the ball and update their boot disks to support NTFS partitions so that I can use Maxtor's MaxBlast directly with NTFS. I had trouble getting rid of an NTFS partition so I ams sticking with FAT32, but really for my use I see no real advantage in using NTFS.
Working around the OS seems sluggish, I don't know why, things load quickly enough but still the mouse and other things just don't "feel" right to me. Take that for what its worth.
My only gripe is that companies may ditch support for 2000 in favour of XP, mostly game companies. But I hope that XP support will backwardly work with 2000.
What are some of your thoughts, praises, and criticisms of WinXP vs Win2k vs Win9x/ME?????
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Personally I haven't got anything good to say about XP. This is clearly an operating system aimed at the "Mum and Dad's market - first computer" genre.
Too many un-necessary compulsory components, hideous abuse of system resourse (almost as bad as Me's). Its too cute looking, and worst of all, the amount of information is willingly sends out over the internet is scary.
Too many un-necessary compulsory components, hideous abuse of system resourse (almost as bad as Me's). Its too cute looking, and worst of all, the amount of information is willingly sends out over the internet is scary.
Yeah I understand what you mean. Lately the Search function is fricking pissing me off. I wish I default it back to the original one in 9x/2k, you know where you type a file name in, I hate answering these dumb questions. And that dumb dog looks so gay, sorry but I had to say it, I got rid of him right away. Something about those eyes.
Very well put pmistry and catdog02. Short and sweet.
I agree with pimpin 100% there, i have been running XP for ages now and find it excellent after i got drivers and updates. I think it is mainly support from companies. Only thing i have against it is that i cant use the control that came with my WinTV Primio FM Card, so now i have to get off my arse and click mouse buttons.
