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Drivers, buddy. You don't know a thing about XP if you can't keep it running. It is EASY, except for you. I've read your posts for months, if not years, about your problems. All your problems seem to be your lack of competence in working with computers.

Isn't it amazing how Mac and Linux users are the only ones who can't seem to keep Windows running? And then they turn around and expect everyone to take their advice about switching to Linux or OSX! As if their incompetence weren't enough of a turnoff.

Isn't it amazing how Mac and Linux users are the only ones who can't seem to keep Windows running?

Yeah, it must be the fault-tolerance. Linux and Mac users expect things to run perfectly, and Winders simply doesn't do that.

Isn't it amazing how Mac and Linux users are the only ones who can't seem to keep Windows running?

Speak for yourself - I use a mac and windows at home, and I use netware, windows, unix and linux at work. If you maintain them - all of them - they don't crash often. That being said, the Windows boxes seem to require a lot more patching than the rest and even then are not *as* stable.

My personal beef with MS is I can't get a Windows 98SE disc from them. I have old machines that work best on it that came from Goodwill's used computer department. They loaded the cabs on them, but get a volumn conflict and the cab won't open.

I hate buying used software on CD, but my point is if Windoz is so profit driven they won't help tinkerers dabbling in older machines keep them running on their Windoz platform, how can you trust them when this same disfunctional attitude rears it's ugly head when the current machines equipted with XP are suffering from the human entropy of disk loss and machine resale or transfer?

I like XO fine, but my new machine I burned together has RedHat. Though if I get a 98SE copy I'll partition the drive and use it with the Linux. I had been planning to get 2K for it, but I am flat just too pissed off at Microsoft's short attention span that precludes them to support old products that is undoubtably due to an obsession with the bottomline.

BTW, my old original computer, a Commodore still works and I practice my Morse Code speed with it.