RE: [Dev-C++] off topic - windows XP

[Ramana K. <ra...@my...>]

i have winxp home edition
i have found it an improvement over all other "home" editions of windows.
people are complaining there's no dos... true there's no underlying dos
architecture any more, but you can still use a command box by running
"command" from the start menu.
one thing i regret: i should have got proffesional (or some other higher)
version of windows, because home edition is actually restricted than i
thought in areas like multiple languages or (this one doesn't really concern
me) multiple processors, hard drives, and some other stuff.
but this is the most stable windows i've seen.
as for reporting errors to ms, unless winxp is doing this in the background
(which would be ground for legal against microsoft?) all error reporting is
only made confidentially and AFTER CONSENT of the user.
i don't particularly take a liking to defending microsoft, but i tell it how
it is (how i experience it) and personally, i don't have the time or energy
to deal with other os's where i can't fall back on the fact that such a big
powerful company like microsoft made it (lol - and all the implications of
that)

-----Original Message-----
From: dev...@li...
[mailto:dev...@li...]On Behalf Of Abhijit
Shylanath
Sent: Thursday, 11 July 2002 1:31 AM
To: dev...@li...
Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] off topic - windows XP


The activation thing can be resolved by downloading a crack from the net.
The memory management is okay, if you disable eye-candy, it works well (I
have 128 mb RAM and my system is VERY smooth), but it doesn't have DOS,
which is a real pain (not having DOS, not DOS itself :) It reports crashes
to MS, but that can be disabled by changing an option in the control panel.
But it is pretty stable (2000/NT kernel). And DX games do run properly on XP
(not better than 98, but reasonably well). Some of your old drivers and
programs may not work on it (but that's not an issue if it's on a new PC)
It's got a lot of bloat, so beware.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hongli Lai" <h....@ch...>
To: "Daniel Glenfield" <sp...@ho...>
Cc: <dev...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] off topic - windows XP


> Daniel Glenfield wrote:
>
> >
> > Wow I didn't realise there were such big issues about it. You need a
> > new key each time you upgrade?
> > I thought the memory requirements were because it helped stability!
>
>
> Memory requirements have nothing to do with stability. The huge
> requirements are caused by all the eyecandy, the fact that an entire
> browser (Internet Explorer) is integrated in the system (and is loaded
> all the time), and other bloatness.
>
> > Is Windows2000 the best then?
> >
>
> I think so, apart from the fact that games don't run well on 2000 or XP.




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