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  • D David Cunningham

    She says they're teaching Java at her pre-school, so she wanted JBuilder. Go figure. David http://www.dundas.com

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    Chris Maunder
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    Kids these days. :rolleyes: cheers, Chris Maunder

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      In what way is it slower? I first found the video to be damn slow and when I moved and resized windows there was a lot of flicker. Then I found that XP was using a default video driver. Upgrading the video driver did the trick for me Nish


      Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]

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      The start menus also have a built in delay before they'r drawn. You can disable that feature in Display settings I believe. Todd Smith

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        In what way is it slower? I first found the video to be damn slow and when I moved and resized windows there was a lot of flicker. Then I found that XP was using a default video driver. Upgrading the video driver did the trick for me Nish


        Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]

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        The file system and the menus bother me the most. Sometimes if I open a folder with say 12 items inside it will take several seconds for them to display. This happens all the time with control panel.

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          I run XP at home on a AMD TBIRD 1.33 GHz machine with 512 PC133 memory X| It seems to run fine. However, after awhile I now get this long pause after the computer boots into windows where I can't double click or run anything and after awhile the problem goes away. However, I now have 10 Copies of Explorer running that I have to now close 9 and some times I get "Not Responding". Hmmm...maybe I do have a problem, now that I think about it. Code4Food ---- "There is no try; only do or do not" -Yoda

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          Kannan Kalyanaraman
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          Oh I have the same problem, clicking on icons will have no effect for a while X| I thought its 'cause of my poor configuration(p3 733 128mb :-( ) Kannan

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            The file system and the menus bother me the most. Sometimes if I open a folder with say 12 items inside it will take several seconds for them to display. This happens all the time with control panel.

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            stupration
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            Mine does that when display large amounts of pictures(in thumbnails)

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              Mine does that when display large amounts of pictures(in thumbnails)

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              Mark A
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              That would be expected since it needs to render all the images. I dont use that view or tile view. I use list or icon.

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              • D David Cunningham

                After kicking it around on one box for a month or so I converted all my personal use boxes to XP. I love it. I loaded it on my 300mhz P3 256K machine (kick around box), and it actually ran faster after the new OS was installed. Unquestionably a first in my OS upgrade experience. On my Laptop (P3 900mhz/256K), well, it rocks. I love the speed of the new hibernate. At home the family log-in screen works well enough that my 4 year old has her own account, and I don't have to leave her mucking around on my account to play Scoobie-Doo or Magic Schoolbus. On my office box (P4/1.8G/512K Rambus) it's solid as a rock. My only complaint about the OS is that I use Remote Desktop extensively, and after a while it mucks up explorer.exe, forcing me to kill the task and restart it. If you're having that terrible an experience, something has to be wrong. Check out your M/B manufacturer's website and see if there's a bios upgrade, and check to ensure you're running all the proper drivers. David http://www.dundas.com

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                David Wulff
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                David Cunningham wrote: ave her mucking around on my account to play Scoobie-Doo or Magic Schoolbus. Countrary to what Chris may have thought, I find myself wondering why you'd have the Magic Schoolbus on your account anyway... :rolleyes: * Well okay, but the joke does kind of work if you take a deep breath beforehand and read it with your eyes shut.


                David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk

                "You scratch my back and I'll piss on yours" - Scott McSquealy

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                • D David Cunningham

                  She says they're teaching Java at her pre-school, so she wanted JBuilder. Go figure. David http://www.dundas.com

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                  David Cunningham wrote: She says they're teaching Java at her pre-school ROTFLMAO! Cruel, very cruel.


                  David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk

                  "You scratch my back and I'll piss on yours" - Scott McSquealy

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                  • K Kannan Kalyanaraman

                    Oh I have the same problem, clicking on icons will have no effect for a while X| I thought its 'cause of my poor configuration(p3 733 128mb :-( ) Kannan

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                    Kannan Kalyanaraman wrote: thought its 'cause of my poor configuration(p3 733 128mb ) That shouldn't give you any grief - my home machine is a p2 333 and it runs Windows XP like the wind (indeed it runs VS.NET and games like GTA3 like they were on steroids). It must be ram that makes the difference, though it only has 416mb.


                    David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk

                    "You scratch my back and I'll piss on yours" - Scott McSquealy

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                    • M Mark A

                      A couple weeks ago I built a new system and put winxp on it. Enough time has passed that I can say the operating system is a total hog. I have tried shutting off restore feature, indexing, unused services, skins, removed start up items. The system is still very slow. The system boots fairly quickly, but the response time during normal usage is just aweful. The system is a 1.8A P4 and has 512 megs of DDR ram. Its very frustrating that my old 300 mhz system running windows 98 rivals this machine. This isnt a tech support forum so I dont expect anyone to try and diagnos my machine. It would be nice to know tho if anyone out there that uses both and can tell me if win2k is any better?

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                      Works great for me. Only have a minor problem with NWN. Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?

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                        Works great for me. Only have a minor problem with NWN. Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?

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                        Code4Food
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                        How is NWN? Is it worth the current going price? I've trying to wait for a demo but if I get a good recommendation by the fine ppl at CP I may break down and buy it now :) Code4Food ---- "There is no try; only do or do not" -Yoda

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