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just curious, is the new memory stick in presently?

Hate might be a little harsh, guess I just need to work with it more. Still have not figured out how to use the cd burner.

The new stick of memory is installed. so far everything seems to work fine.

CD Burners can be a bit tricky...
Win XP is the first OS to support them nativly, you just stick a blank one in and follow the wizard if you still have default settings.
I still use Roxio to burn my cds though.
I really don't like the wizards your supposed to follow, nor do I like the autorun feature.
I've only had 1 or 2 crashes on windows for the last 2 years on my laptop, so XP gets my vote (after I have customized it of course.)

XP is the first OS really designed to be a no-brainer OS for people who haven't got a clue about PC's. For the rest of us, it takes a little tweaking to get it to where we want. XP was also supposed to offer all the bells and whistles a person needed so you would not have to run out and buy additional software. For as much bashing as they take, Microsoft really has advanced the computing industry more than any other company. With that said, their native programs leave a bit to be desired sometimes. I prefer Roxio over there CD program, Musicmatch blows Media player out of the water, and Photoshop Elements has far more features than the XP version. So you get a bit of what you pay for. The plain photo printing program from XP seems to work alot better than the software that came with my ink jet, so there are some good programs as well. I have been running XP for over a year now, and I would not go back to any other OS. It does take a bit to get used to if you are moving from Win9x or Win2000, but after a while you will like so of the features.


[This message has been edited by Z-man (edited October 24, 2003).]

I've got a mix of XP and 2000 over here. Me being the wee young man that I am... still support the parent's efforts in the computing world. I used to build each and every box for the family, and a bunch of other people, but I'm going with dells now... because I'm less into the computer scene, and more into the telecom scene. Anyhow, long story short... XP works alright. I like the GUI, but I think I grow to like any GUI. I don't take too kindly to switching the GUI from the native plastic theme to the previous windows scheme. The amount of stress your GPU goes through to make it happen is actually pretty terrible. Native CD burning is nice, it's pretty easy actually. You can drag and drop straight into the CD burner icon and be on your way, very helpful. There are a lot of native tricks I like about XP, built in ZIP compression... built in firewall... built in everything. So for those who want these features, and don't want to do it themselves, or if you're getting a new PC -- go with XP. It's got some great stuff.

But... it is my honest opinion that Windows 2000 Professional is the best operating system Microsoft has ever released.

It's stable (moreso than ANY NT release or 9X release, and definetely more than XP). It's robust and has plenty of built in features (although not anywhere near as many as XP).

More specifically, I rarely -- if ever, have a crash in 2000. I run a lot of stuff on this thing, and take it through the worst of all situations. I'm still using a Pentium 3 850MHz (100MHZ FSB) with 512MB of RAM, and a standard array of cards. This thing doesn't crash, doesn't do funky things when booting up, rarely has any problems at all.

And I installed 2000 on this machine in the year 2000. So... this thing has been going strong for a while now.

So I don't know, it's a tough debate for me. I don't see myself switching to XP any time, because I never have any problems... and frankly, most of the features XP has built in... I have third party software for that I'm more accustomed to usingin the first place.

I don't know.

Ask Tommy, he still uses Windows 95. Ha.

i would recommend xp. ever since i install it never had any of the problems i used to have with 98se & me. my computer (xp pro, athlon xp1800, 512mb ram, dvd-r/w, cd-r/w, 60gb drive, high end video, all kinds of toys and software running) stays running all the time (24/7). i also have a dell laptop (xp pro, 512mb ram, 60gb, dvd/cdrw, etc) same thing runs all the time. then i have my work laptop (old toshiba, p200, 64mb ram, 6gb drive, win me) that thing will lock up, freak out, whatever. but i need it to run software for doing telecom. i also have my wife & kids laptops running xp pro. no problems there either. it's like my linux box (celeron 850, 512mb ram, 60gb drives, cdr, etc) just kepps running & running....