I’m working now on an Xp box. I have a hundred browser windows open.9 word docs, notepad plus, 18 open notepads, ewinsp, 8 irfans, netbeans, mobipocket, 2 excel and a dos cli. Setting up my next box will be a nightmare.
Screw microsoft. Will probably go linux on desktop next time, already there on webserver.
Setting up my next box will be a nightmare.
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It’s not so bad if you go to Windows 7 64-bit, unless you have some programs that absolutely need XP.
Just remember to double the RAM requirements, get at least a dual-core CPU, and get a decent video chipset (DirectX 9.0c compatible with 256K video RAM at the very least), and you should be OK. I already had all that stuff before I moved from XP to Win7 at home, even with a really cheap rig.