Subj : WinXP
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : CHARLES ANGELICH
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 03:54 am

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Hello August - 

CA>> No I'm not wrong. I was referring to the heated exchange
CA>> here in the Win95 echo about XP not working well on legacy
CA>> hardware. About that I am not wrong. 

AA> And there is a solution: 

AA> http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/network/0,39044847,39114881 

Using the above URL: 

"We're sorry, but the requested page is currently not available
on our site." 

AA> ...you just haven't looked very far. 

Or not soon enough - seems they've removed the page? 

CA>> Nice tweaking info but we were talking about
CA>> out-of-the-box installs for relatively unsophisticated
CA>> users. 

AA> I'm not aware that anyone INSISTED that XP /needed/to work
AA> "out of the box". 

That was implied if not spoken/typed outright. 

CA>> Yes and killing unused/unneeded processes would be
CA>> another. Not relevant to newbies though. 

AA> Then I fear there might be a huge inconsistency your way of
AA> thinking. XP is a new OS with all the bell's and whistle's
AA> turned on. 

Well prior to SP2 all the bells and all the whistles were NOT
turned ON. Remember? 

AA> Nothing wrong with that, right? Essentially, your complaint
AA> is that "out of the box", XP doesn't work on legacy pc's.
AA> Well.. RTFM and turn the those default settings off. 

AA> There are many people and resources here and elsewhere that
AA> can help with the learning curve of XP. 

I appreciate your suggestions, really I do no sarcasm but you
have gotten the wrong impression. I've used XP and tweaked XP
several times (half dozen or more) but I do not use it here on
my desktop machine. It was on a laptop I borrowed several times
for my trips across the state of Michigan. 

I did everything you have mentioned and more but I still didn't
like XP. It's not horrible it's just a bit too 'cute' for my
tastes and a bit of a resource hog to boot. 

I did like the free included movie editor that comes with XP
Pro. It was easy to use and did a good job for me. Nothing else
I particularly liked about XP that I can think of right now. 

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