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I, for one, would recommend _upgrading_ to XP instead of a clean install.
If you reformat your hard drive, you can't go back. Upgrading, though,
gives you the option to roll back the upgrade in case things don't work out.
I upgraded from Me to XP on my Gateway Athlon 1400MHz in mid-December and
had a difficult time with my Colorgraphics video card and Diamond HomeFree
Wireless network. I ultimately replaced the Colorgraphics card with a
Matrox G550 and the HomeFree network with a Netgear phone line network and
things are working again. But when I encountered those problems, I was glad
I had the option to roll back the upgrade if necessary.
I've been very happy with XP since I got my hardware problems fixed. XP is
rock solid and never crashes. It boots in 33 seconds flat. Tradestation
2000i works fine. I recently converted from Fat32 to NTFS and deleted the
100+ megs of ME recovery information. I'm sticking with XP.
I do have three XP complaints, though...
-- Scandisk is no longer a program listed in the accessories-system tools
directory. I am forced to go through the properties screen of My Computer
to get to it.
-- When I was replacing my network and video cards, I had to call Microsoft
to get XP "reactivated". XP decided to shut down on me because the hardware
"signature" had changed too much. Easily fixed with a phone call, though.
-- MS Messenger automatically starts when you start Outlook Express. How
annoying is that? I read about a registry key fix and tried it, but it
didn't work.
Anyone want to buy a Colorgraphics Predator Pro PCI dual DVI video card?
Works great as long as you don't already have a Savage video "card" onboard
your motherboard.
Aaron
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Eggleston" <mikee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Robin Cotten" <rcotten@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Omega List (E-mail)" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: win XP: Gary or anyone...
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Robin Cotten wrote:
>
> > When you say that you recommend a clean install of XP, do you mean a
> > clean install of TS2000i or a clean install of all windows applications
> > including TS?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Robin
> >
>
> with windows, reformat and reinstall *everything*
>
> Mike
>
>
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