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3.5 stars
"Win XP SP 2 is pretty good provided you do alot of tweaking."
Pros: It seems pretty stable, no more BSOD's. It also doesn't crash as often as past versions.
Cons: Its a resource hog and also has alot buried deep inside most people never find out about. MS should bring more of the tools where everyone can find them.
Summary: I've migrated through all the Windows OS's from 3.1 to 95 to 98 and straight to Win XP SP 2. Its big its bulky and seems to need alot more maintenance that past versions. If you don't keep the junk cleaned up it seriously slows down and programs seem to take longer and longer to open.
All that is easily remedied by vigilant maintenance. Win XP also doesn't need to be rebooted nearly as frequently as past versions. If you can do without alot of the eye candy and stop or disable alot of the services Win XP can be speeded up dramatically.
I bought a new computer with XP SP 2 preinstalled with 256MB of ram and really thought that was sufficent to run it. I then upgraded the ram to 512MB and now its just about perfect. I'm really happy with it. It took about 5 months to get it tweaked the way I want it, but now I think XP is a pretty good OS.
If you use XP right out of the box you'll find lots of little annoyances that will drive you crazy, like all the pop up tips and messages but they are all easily turned off as is the poor excuse for a firewall that MS seems to drum on about if you go to there security site.
Of course if you just don't like Win XP theres always a Mac or Linux if you can get through the learning curve. By the way I have another box with Linux Redhat that hasn't been rebooted in about 3 months, maybe thats why so many servers run Linus as there OS.
So with all that said I'd say Win XP is a big step in the right direction and can't wait for Longhorn....
One draw back to XP is the fact that MS doesn't mention all the little tweaks you can do to speed it up.
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You're supposed to be reviewing the service pack, not Windows XP. First you say it slows your system down, but later it appears that you're talking about the whole OS and not the service pack. Come one, pay attention to what you're posting about.
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I am curious as what tweaks snharden used.
My computer is doing what he said; slow to
load, email constantly closing, all sorts of
things. Don't know what to tweak at this point. Any suggestions?
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