03-14-2002, 07:13 AM
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Ahhhh... I feel so fresh (install of XP that is)
I finally wiped the hard drive and did a fresh install of XP Pro. When XP came out I broke a cadinal rule of geekdom: I upgraded over the top of W2k.
 Yeah, it had issues.No more shutdown probs now though. And IE6 behaves itself. Before when using Ctrl+N or Ctrl+Enter in IE it would... wig a bit. Not no more though! Now for O2K and EZCD5. and Winamp with the Ogg plugin. And the ASH thingy for mirc, and.... you get the idea. Gotta go... -OC
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03-14-2002, 10:31 AM
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what does ctrl-enter do?
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03-14-2002, 11:22 AM
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03-14-2002, 11:46 AM
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I noticed OC saying he installed EZCD5. Is anyone of ya using the integrated Roxio software for burning..? I've tried it a couple times.. Pretty simple to use if ya ask me. Although I don't know if it'd have nearly as many features as other burning software.
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03-14-2002, 12:04 PM
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03-14-2002, 01:52 PM
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I've used it. Yes, it is simple, but it is very lacking in features. With third party software, I can just start dumping files in the "to burn" folder, and it tells me when I hit the limit for that CDR. The XP software will let you schedule everything on your hard drive to burn onto a single CD. It will then "prepare" for 10 minutes, only to tell you that there is too much data for your CD. I once found a bug where it told me there was too much data, so I backed off some of it. It processed for another 10 minutes, then told me that there was still too much, I kept backing off until I was down to ~100 Meg of data, and it kept barfing. Finally I closed the whole session and re-started it, and it worked fine. I'm thinking about investing in some better software. The software package that came with my CDRW drive doesn't support XP (of course).
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03-14-2002, 04:41 PM
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03-15-2002, 08:10 PM
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I put Windows XP over Windows ME a few months back. Let me state its best to do a clean install versus an upgrade when it pertains to XP. In the process of the upgrade it froze and when it restarted itself I lost all of my data including the software to my Cd-Rw and DVD. On the upside, I dont have any more freezes and CTRL ALT DEL is a thing of the past.
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03-20-2002, 02:49 AM
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I hate the built in burning feature; it can't be read from any other OS other than WinXP. I highly recommend you download some full(version) burn apps for burning in XP; don't say I didn't warn you when you use that drop n burn crap and any other version of Windows won't read the CD. It did that to me at least with the full release of XP Pro...
IMO I still think Win2k Pro is the best OS on the planet, glitch free no issues plus it's already at Service Pack 2 therefore all the initial bugs are out of the woodwork...XP is nice and boots speedy but it eats RAM like Shaq (apparently) eats Whoppers, it doesn't work with the majority of OpenGL games (ie Quake 3 Arena, Team Arena, Soldier Of Fortune, Max Payne etc) plus it has serious security issues and really really leery holes and bad hacker leaks. I also hate the way Internet Explorer is now, any version - after using Netscape 6.2. Once you see how fast NS6.2 loads pages and handles pictures like a charm...there's no going back to the slower-than-hell IE IMHO...especially when paired with Win2k  Last edited by zero2dash : 03-20-2002 at 03:54 AM. |
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04-02-2002, 11:58 AM
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Hmmmmm
So with XP Pro, there aren't any options as to playing Max Payne and games like that? I'm about to do a clean install of XP Pro and wipeout my Windows ME.
Any options to still being able to play my games?
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04-02-2002, 12:49 PM
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the admiral formerly known as overclocked
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I've only run one game under XP - Heavy Gear II. It works fine.
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04-02-2002, 01:42 PM
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Zero, what are you talking about? OpenGL works fine on XP. Max Payne and Quake run perfectly. I know people that have been playing Quake 3 on XP since the Whistler Beta so I don't know where you're gettin gyour information. And if XP eats RAM, why doesn't anyone who has it notice that? Maybe if you only have 128 megs of RAM then it may lag, but ive never even used 50% of my RAM since ive installed XP.
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