Windows XP Proff. better than 98?
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I have 256 and find WXP to be perfectly useable. As soon as I installed VS.NET and fired it up, it sucked up almost all of the 256MB I had. Totally unusable, massive disk swapping within the IDE itself. Ugh. After upgrading to 512MB, everyone (namely ME) is now happy! I don't understand why they can't write an IDE that isn't such a hog. I mean, 256,000,000 bytes! I haven't looked at some of the competitor IDE's out there yet. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"Funny. I have XP running on PIII 700 with 256 MB and it works fine. I can run multiple instances of VS.NET with no problems. Pankaj Without struggle, there is no progress
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Oh yeah, this might not fit with the topic, but sometimes when I start Windows 98, it says the thing about "Error in system registry." I've had experiences that you shouldn't have Microsoft Plus! installed when that happens, it totally screws everything up, I still don't know the cause of the error though. What's the deal!? When it happens I just format my pc and throw my Ghost backup and it's fixed again.
I had a PC that developed the same error, and no matter how often I re-installed Win98, the same message appeared every time it booted. I installed Linux and never had another problem with it.;P It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
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DevHead wrote: 256 MB RAM I think you'll find that is your problem, IMO (and from experience) - Windows XP needs at least 512 and probably 1gb to be useable. Of course it does depend what XP is running in the background, do you have IIS running or other similiar services? Windows XP (apart from the Fisher Price Interface) is the best of Microsoft attempts at a windowing operating system. Michael Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman. All the world's waiting for you, and the power you possess. In your satin tights, Fighting for your rights And the old Red, White and Blue.
I love it when it puts 880 MB into the system cache.
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try installing all the driver the right way on your xp machine, this really looks like a wrong IDE controller driver. i had this problem to, but wenn i installed all the driver right my P4 was faster than ever. DevHead wrote: I think XP is worse than 98 TRY THIS: burning a cd at 48x while watching a divx movie and downloading 6 files with kazaa(everyone knows how much cpu time kazaa needs) i bet that you 98 machine will stutter and freak out, while you xp system still has resources left(IF you install the drivers right) DevHead wrote: installing DivX 3.11A there is realy something screwed up with our configuration.... []D [] []D []
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DevHead wrote: and now I want you opinion Don't ever consider a career in QA.
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My dad has Windows XP, on his computer it's slow though he has a P4 on 256 MB RAM, well he has lots of crap on it ;P, anywayz I think XP is worse than 98, I tried installing DivX 3.11A on it:mad: and it couldn't it has a serious problem with video support because XviD didnt work on it either.:omg: My opinion: XP sucks;P and now I want you opinion.
Uhh.. DivX is on version 5.01, shouldn't you install a much more recent version? I love XP, and I find it much faster than 9x. You don't mention how you determine it to be slower. How? -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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I have 256 and find WXP to be perfectly useable. As soon as I installed VS.NET and fired it up, it sucked up almost all of the 256MB I had. Totally unusable, massive disk swapping within the IDE itself. Ugh. After upgrading to 512MB, everyone (namely ME) is now happy! I don't understand why they can't write an IDE that isn't such a hog. I mean, 256,000,000 bytes! I haven't looked at some of the competitor IDE's out there yet. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"Yes, VS.NET is a memory hog, but you have to realize that they keep expanding features to match the typical computer. Things like IntelliSense are not cheap in terms of memory and CPU power, nor are the ever expanding features like code collapsing, Dynamic Help, etc.. Actually, Dynamic Help is a huge drain on resources. Turn that off and you save a lot. -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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David Wulff wrote: Don't ever consider a career in QA. yeah well, I'm not thinking of it either :|, and you see the Humour status.....it's not very good.
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I have 256 and find WXP to be perfectly useable. As soon as I installed VS.NET and fired it up, it sucked up almost all of the 256MB I had. Totally unusable, massive disk swapping within the IDE itself. Ugh. After upgrading to 512MB, everyone (namely ME) is now happy! I don't understand why they can't write an IDE that isn't such a hog. I mean, 256,000,000 bytes! I haven't looked at some of the competitor IDE's out there yet. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"I've run VS.NET with less ram and had no problems (yes it was on XP). I think you have something else on your computer is hogging resources. -:suss:Matt Newman / Windows XP Activist:suss:
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Christian Graus wrote: Any computer will run faster with a lesser OS, one that does less and looks ugly. So if you were an OS you'd be faster than the speed of light? ;P Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
:omg: Michael Martin wrote: So if you were an OS you'd be faster than the speed of light? Very good! -:suss:Matt Newman / Windows XP Activist:suss:
"Well, the guy that's giving you a hard time is a f***in moron, and you can tell him thats straight from another Linux user." - John Simmons on Linux Users
Just do the American thing and shoot him... - Jim Crafton on Linux Users
...no matter where you wear your towel, the law is the law... - Christian Graus on the law -
Christian Graus wrote: Any computer will run faster with a lesser OS, one that does less and looks ugly. So if you were an OS you'd be faster than the speed of light? ;P Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
Michael Martin wrote: faster than the speed of light My wife claims that is already the case... Christian NO MATTER HOW MUCH BIG IS THE WORD SIZE ,THE DATA MUCT BE TRANSPORTED INTO THE CPU. - Vinod Sharma
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yeah well it's my dad's pc and I was just curious, but than again I got a PII on Win98 with 116mb RAM, I don't think I should install XP if I wish to keep this thing alive ;P