Windows XP Service Pack 2: Install With Care

CRN ^ | Jul. 23, 2004 | Frank J. Ohlhorst and Vincent A. Randazzese

[Leatherneck_MT]

I would recommend you put Windows 2000 Pro on her system. It's the most stable version of Windows that has ever been released. I work tech support for a software company that services the heavy duty truck and auto repair industries. I'm their Chief Network Technician and trouble shooter.

90% of the systems that we have that run on Windows 2000 Pro have little to no trouble.

Windows Xp has considerably more trouble and probably will have for a long time to come.

[browardchad]

Interesting, but not surprising. Every machine is different. If there's one thing I've learned the hard way after years of working with Windows, it's to have a disaster plan, including a full backup and factoring in time needed to do a clean wipe-out and re-install of everything in the event of disaster.

BTW, I've had a few (not immediately obvious) failures with relatively new Lite-On CDR's -- that may have been the issue with your daughter's machine.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

If I could only learn Linux!!! If I could only learn anything,......just anything, at my age.

Hey it is still possible to learn at an advanced age, I'm doing it, but I didn't take the approach of trying to install Linus on the same machine with Windows XP.... .. I just setup a separate machine , got me some Linus stuff and installed, it and I am now browsing only with Linux.

There are multiple ways to get there, an easy way is to buy the Sams ...Teach yourself Red Hat Linux Fedora in 24 hours.. (less than $30.) . has a CD containg Fedora, download that baby , give it the whole machine and the disks, and go.... well, if you have modem access to the network as opposed to broad band check a computer forum somewhere to see if your specific modem is supported... Watch out for Gigabit Network cards also, bought one that Fedora wouldn't talk too... other specialized hardware like scanners, USB devices, special RAID cards also...

Try it and have some fun!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Firefox is working great for me, much prefer it over Mozilla, I like the ability to just use the Ctl key and the scroll wheel to increase the font size.

[Fiddlstix]

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