Ah here we go. formatting the hard drive might have been what I was thinking
of, not the upgrading of hardware.
>From: Matthew Hickson <mhi...@sy...>
>To: Dev-C++ Mailing List <dev...@li...>
>Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] off topic - windows XP
>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:26:32 -0400
>
>Hello,
>
>Ready for another long post? 8-)
>
>Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>
>>WinXP is better than Win2k. The only dark cloud is that product
>>activation which tires you if you format the HDD all the time.
>>
>>
>Not really.
>
>Not that I format the way I used to, but... I just connect to the
>internet... activate (don't bother to register... though some do) and
>voila! Activation acknowledges that you'll change hardware over time. As
>long as it's incremetal, there's no need for concern. Just don't gut your
>machine (i.e. change vidoe, audio, NIC, hdd, and RAM configuration in an
>evening. 8-).
>
>I agree with Ioannis, it is a nice little OS. Sure, I'd really advise
>running with 128+ MB of RAM, and more than 10 GB of HDD space, but the
>abiliity to use the recovery console (already mentioned), or system
>restore, or even driver rollback. Hardware support is good, and anything
>that doesn't run right out of the box, you can patch. (Besides, if you're
>getting a new machine... where are you going to find one with less hardware
>than that???)
>
>Better still, if you're looking for new hardware, go with some of the big
>guys (Dell, HP/Compaq, IBM, etc.). They usually offer "system-locked"
>versions of XP. If you run it on the hardware it's keyed on (usually the
>BIOS), you don't have to activate! (Registration still optional.)
>
>I don't like the eyecandy, so I shut most of it off. I enabled the
>built-in firewall (little counter-intuitive to find the log after the
>fact), and I just choose "Don't Send" when an error occurs. I also didn't
>like the insistance that Messenger be enabled all the time. Tried shutting
>it off, but it's persistant... so, I renamed it, and everything's good. I
>choose my patches carefully (remember system restore!), and it goes from
>there. As to DOS... yeah, DOS is gone (get VMWare, etc. and install
>FreeDOS... ), but I don't miss it. (DOS games seem slow... maybe it's just
>that I don't care to take the time to fix it. Windows stuff runs fine.).
>And... hey... it is good and stable (far more so that Win98. Besides XP
>comes with built-in PPPOE.... no need for connection software from my ISP
>for DSL!)
>
>Now, if I could only figure out how to remove MovieMaker... <sigh!> (It's
>probably out there somewhere... a task for another day).
>
>If you have questions about the OS... do some reading. There's lots of
>opinions out there... (some even grounded on fact... stay away from
>Microsoft... and the "I hate MS" websites and you should get something
>balanced).
>
>Good Luck!
>
>---
>Matthew Hickson
>
>
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