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Lancer409 · Aug 12, 2004, 11:38 PM

While I've always had minor issues in XP, I wasnt a winxp hater. Even after buying a powerbook and enjoying OSX, I still felt no hatred towards XP ... I just prefered OSX's interface. But a day before Doom 3 arrives in my hand, my cpu became virused. or Trojaned ... or whatever. While I've usually found ways of clearing such things on my PC before, This time I was unable to Virus Scan, I was unable to update virus scan, programs had trouble running/loading, and there would be traffic on mhy connection even though nothing was running. traffic bad enough to lag my brother on CS. I am now going to reinstall xp after a harddrive wipe (by the way, cd's werent burning either) I burned 2 successfully and lost 8 cd's due to tracking problems that i didnt have before. sigh .. guess now i know why some people in this forum hate XP so much ... why ... why before doom 3 .. augh. oh .. and reinstalling on my system isnt as simple as it could be because of a floppy i need that will let my cpu see my harddrive after the wipe .. i dont know what happened to mine .. "sigh" sorry for rambling. 4 hours of sleep in two days .. and still working on this piece of sh!t

Maflynn · Aug 13, 2004, 02:02 AM

I'm in a mixed marriage, I use macs, my wife a peecee. I continually have to run nortan antivirus, spybot and spysweep. They always find something. Before I enjoyed some of XPs nicer touches, now I really don't like it at all. The benefits do not out weigh the security. I'm hope SP2 will fix a lot of these but then I've heard of these promises from MS before.

I'm typing this on my PB safe and secure

Mike

Ryan1524 · Aug 13, 2004, 02:53 AM

agreed. XP is not such a bad thing, except for the security attacks, the registry, the application installation system, and the contamination of the system folders.

fix all that, throw in a nice gui on top...and you get...OSX. LMAO.

but seriously, XP was quite tolerable until the security stuff comes up.

qualey2 · Aug 13, 2004, 08:05 AM

Originally posted by Maflynn: I'm hope SP2 will fix a lot of these but then I've heard of these promises from MS before.
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I would stay away from sp2 for a while. I read someplace this it works so well that it wiped out 4 of 7 it was installed on.

If I find the link I will post it.

Voch · Aug 13, 2004, 08:20 AM

I use my PowerBook for all day-to-day stuff. My Windows XP Athlon is for stuff like backup file storage, overnight Bittorrent downloads, and MAME32. I still haven't found a good Usenet news client for Windows that I like (Unison rocks) so I use my PowerBook for that too.

I may invest in a refurb G5 or the forthcoming iMac/G5 for as an "always on" Mac. I'm itching for an update to my portable Mac so I may just get a new portable and make the G4 667/DVI PowerBook the home Mac. Decisions decisions...

I'm running XP SP 2 on both my home machine and my work machine right now and they're both happy. The new Windows firewall isn't too shabby and I've used it to disable all the ports on my home Windows box except SSH and Bittorrent. So far so good.

Voch

Snake · Aug 13, 2004, 09:37 AM

I use the Powerbook for everything, my PC is on the brink of getting sold (or at least parted out). XP has been the bane of my computing experiences over the past 3 years.

Maflynn · Aug 13, 2004, 01:38 PM

Originally posted by qualey2:
I would stay away from sp2 for a while. I read someplace this it works so well that it wiped out 4 of 7 it was installed on.

If I find the link I will post it.

Agreed, Microsoft doesn't have a good track record with these things, and with everyhting they through into SP2 it less of a service pack and more of an update. I definitly do not want to be on the bleeding edge.

Mike

MrForgetable · Aug 13, 2004, 02:05 PM

My plan is to have a PC there if there is something I absolutely need or else I will die and use the Mac for everything else

Of course the PC might not work when I need it too

qualey2 · Aug 13, 2004, 02:29 PM

This I pulled from one of the other groups I belong to:

XP Service Pack 2 is due out soon. I just read an article in one of my mags about the RC2 version and it hosed 4 out of 7 machines to the point where they would't boot at all (blue screens).

I for one will not be rushing like I normally do to install this service pack that is due out later this month. I'll sit back for a few months on this one. The article stated that approximately 40% of the XP operating system was rewritten for the security enhancements. So this is more like going to a new operating system, not a typical service pack