upgrading to WinXP?
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- mitsu0
i've done about 10 to 15 fresh installs of 98, 2000 and XP in the last year and here are my personal opinions:
98: great OS, especially for gaming, but after a fresh install, you still have to go get all the service pack updates which takes too much time and adds a few hundred more megs of junk to your HD.
2000: omg, can you say (services)? watch these babies eat up your resources when you least expect them. yesterday it took me 10 seconds to open notepad cause my 2k box was choking on some random services that took higher priority than what i was working on. (and mind you, this is a 800Mhz machine w/ about 512 Mb of memory) granted, you can disable some services, but that's a hassel. On some of my 2K installs at home, i took the initiative to do this and it did make things faster, but now read my XP review:
xp: i was skeptical at first, but with an os boot time of about 20-30 seconds, i was already loving it. it's not as plug and play as MS would like you to believe and it will hassle you to death if it finds hardware that you haven't installed drivers for yet, but overall it's a very stable and fast os. the only exception i've found is with IE. it crashes on a regular basis, but then again, i haven't ran any updates on this install, so it could just be me. this is a great os for gaming too. so i'd have to rate this one the highest of all 3.