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Fredledingue:
Hi!
I instaled XP on my new machine but I had to come back to W98 because I couldn't instal the drivers for my Asus 3D/capture board.
Not only: I couldn't instal most of the softwares I'm using all the time.

AND I WAS LUCKY because...if I could instal all these things, I would have stayed with this shit of windows XP.

1/
I Made a test: replace 125000 caracters by another caracter in a text with Word.

With XP it took 24 seconds while on W98 it took 18 seconds. 18 seconds was the theorical duration according to results for the same tests on the older Pentium of the old computer.

My conclusion is that W-XP slow down your processor by 30%!

2/
Great I got a virgin HD of 40Gb (actualy 37, another crooky stuff).
Well after installation of XP and MS office 2000,
2.5Gb were already swalowed. 0.5 Gb were "invisible": the addition of the size of all the files and folders made 2Gb. So were went the 0.5 Gb to? I understand a difference of 100 or 200 Mb but half a Gb!

By installing W98, I freed 1.7 Gb by miracle.

W98+MSoffice2000 totaled less than 880Mb!

3/
When you are used with W98, XP is a nightmare.
Ecxept for the nice color, it's much less user friendly.
It's seems that the XP world is only Web based, Media based and MP3 based. So where are "My Documents"? Where are my .txt files?

Why should I log on to _my_ computer? It's a non sens.

But after trying to find out what are these promising additional options, I found none. All the annoyance from W98 were still there.

An expert told me that XP start faster. Maybe in a matter of seconds. But after removing all the useless stuffs from the start up directory, it started almost as fast as XP. I couldn't notice a difference.

4/More reliable than W98?
He, I didn't have a crash for 3 years with W98.

Conclusion: Beside the "X" in the name, I don't know what's cool with windows XP.

Fredledingue:
Hehe    ...jtpenrod wrote
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And just how do you figure that? Last November, I installed Mandrake on an old Dell OptiPlex GSa (Pentium II (232MHz), 32MB of RAM, 2.0GB on the HD). It worked just great even though Mandrake recommends a minimum of 64MB of RAM, and with the old sound and video cards as well. The one and only thing that didn't work was the Lucent Technologies WinModem. OTOH, I couldn't install Win XP on that rig even if I had wanted to: not enough memory, not enough HD, not enough processor power. That's rediculous! Furthermore, on my new rig, Mandrake doesn't take up any more room on the HD than Win 95, even though I installed shit-loads of software since Mandrake is the system's main OS, hosting the boot-loader, the web browsers and E-mail clients, and the development tools (FOX, KDevelop, Qt, Python, Perl, and Ruby). And still it isn't anywhere as large as a clean Win XP install would be.
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Calum:
windows 2000 is crap! use linux!

seriously though, use win98 if you want, but the times are changing and i think any windows user should partition off 2 Gigs of their hard drive (the 2 Gigs you just clawed back from XP perhaps?) and install a linux or a BSD on it. then you can fool about on that too, you don't have to make up yr mind which you like more because you have them both! at no extra cost!

anyway, they put an 'X' in their new OS, which they stole from unix, but sadly they didn't steal anything else! what use is an 'X' without the convictions to back it up?!?!?!?!!?

gnomez:

quote: Originally posted by Calum: (the 2 Gigs you just clawed back from XP perhaps?)  
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It's true!  I don't know WHAT is on there to take up that much but my hard drive with XP on it is over 3 gigabytes full and I hardly have anything installed on it!!  Linux took up a lot for a full installation but it came with like a million programs.  Why does XP need all this space?  Does Bill stash gay porn on my computer's hard drive and turn it into a web server by night or something?

Maybe all the drivers for every device made up until Windows XP is stored on the hard drive and takes up a lot of space.

Zombie9920:

quote:Originally posted by Garden GNOME:


It's true!  I don't know WHAT is on there to take up that much but my hard drive with XP on it is over 3 gigabytes full and I hardly have anything installed on it!!  Linux took up a lot for a full installation but it came with like a million programs.  Why does XP need all this space?  Does Bill stash gay porn on my computer's hard drive and turn it into a web server by night or something?

Maybe all the drivers for every device made up until Windows XP is stored on the hard drive and takes up a lot of space.
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Try disabling System Restore and hibernation support. If you have hibernation enabled it will take up as much hard drive space as you have RAM(like if you have 256MB of RAM it will take 256MB of hard drive space to have hibernation enabled). System Restore can take up to 12% of your hard drive space.

To disable System Restore go to your system properties(right click on My computer and left click properties) and go to the System Restore tab. You should be able to figure out the rest. Heck, while you are in the System properties you may as well disable the Automatic Windows Update too.

To disable Hibernation support go to your display properties(right click any area on the desktop that doesn't have icons and left click properties), go to the Screen Saver tab and left click the Power button then go to the Hibernate tab and uncheck "Enable hibernation".

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