[Illbay]

Yeah, XP seems to be nice so far (I installed it Thursday evening on my wife's machine; had to move her away from that blasphemy called Windows Me, what a rotten trick MS played with that one).

I can't really comment about the speed, because just before I installed XP over Me, I upgraded her machine to a half-gig.

So, even though her machine is a 350Mhz K6-II, it's pretty zippy now.

My only complaint is that there are no drivers I can find for the Philips Rhythmic Edge PSC702 soundcard. The "beta" versions won't install, so I guess I'll have to buy her a new card.

Otherwise, "ish kabibble."

[bimbo]

... that blasphemy called Windows Me, what a rotten trick MS played with that one ...

You must understand that Microsoft only releases BETA software for the public to test. (They have a lot of nerve charging $$ for it). ME never made it to the "Second Edition" (thank goodness!)

I believe you will eventually realize this about XP as well.

[xm177e2]

blasphemy called Windows Me, what a rotten trick MS played with that one

Release a sub-standard version, then offer XP as an upgrade... they tricked me, but I haven't been having any major unfixable problems with ME.

I did have to reinstall it once, but that was all, and I didn't lose any data.

[Lee'sGhost]

You seem to have a good grasp of what's wrong with ME. Would you say that ME is the reason why I can't get my Tombraider III game to work right? I've got a Compaq with about 20 gig and 900 mhtz and 192 ram -- plenty of horses.