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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lynch" <john.lynch@xxxxxxx>
To: "Barrington Bear" <schindlertrading@xxxxxxxxxxx>;
<omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: win XP: Gary or anyone... Getting rid of messenger
Hey BB,
I also like XP and find it to be faster than Win2K overall because
everything boots faster.
I guess you're stuck with the scandisk problem (cant find it anywhere :-))
Re the registration problem you can fix that. See:
http://users.aol.com/AXCEL216/xp1.htm
Re the annoying messenger problem I found an update on the earlier fix (that
didnt always work) and it worked for me. Both are described at:
http://users.aol.com/AXCEL216/xp1.htm#SMM
You can also make Internet explorer boot much faster by following this
tweak. Backup and then remove the following key from the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Remot
eComputer\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}]
@="Scheduled Tasks"
Apparently it stops IE (and other MS apps) from spending time looking for
things that arent there before getting on and doing what you asked.
TS runs much better than under 98 and ME. Some trendline apps that didn't
run at all in 98 and ME work with XP so I'm happy. TS and everything else
boots much faster than under Win2000 even if some of the magazine tests say
win2k runs some apps faster. I'm not going back to Win2k or ME or 98 :-)
The only problem I've had is that Dell sold me a Winmodem last march that
isnt properly compatible with Win2000 or XP. Stability is very good - I
understand that XP's stability comes because it is based on the Win2000
code.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barrington Bear" <schindlertrading@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Omega List (E-mail)" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: win XP: Gary or anyone...
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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