Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:36 am
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:37 am
hey, I was right...
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:18 am
Just having my comp upgraded to XP Pro from a guy who really knows his shit, I was told that XP Pro is based off NT/2000, which was pretty stable and reliable for a Windows application. Conversely, XP Home is based off Windows ME, which was absolute crap. So that's why XP Pro is so far ahead of XP Home.subawhatsubawho wrote:XP Pro is NT with a 98SE feel.
XP home is 98SE with a souped up feel.
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:12 am
I don't care what anyone says...XP home is nowhere close to ME. ME was the biggest piece of shit that MS ever released. No drivers! NO support! No nothing. Just garbage that was semi-controlled from input devices.
NT was failing in the driver department so when they came out with the XP line they knew they had to include drivers because people would be installing this "hot new OS" on their personal confuser and those same people have little to no computer knowledge.
Gotta love generic drivers.
Mike, did you get an OEM version of XP or a crack? I don't care either way. If you got a craked verision you might want to turn off your automatic computer updates. If it doesn't have SP2 you can get it off file sharing sites.
NT was failing in the driver department so when they came out with the XP line they knew they had to include drivers because people would be installing this "hot new OS" on their personal confuser and those same people have little to no computer knowledge.
Gotta love generic drivers.
Mike, did you get an OEM version of XP or a crack? I don't care either way. If you got a craked verision you might want to turn off your automatic computer updates. If it doesn't have SP2 you can get it off file sharing sites.
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:39 pm
XP home and Pro are BOTH based off of of Win2k which is based off of the original NT kernel.
I beta tested pretty much all the flavors of windows from 98 to XP. XP home and pro were pretty close to being the same at the beginning of the beta. As time went along, they started stripping functionality from home edition. Mainly in the networking department. You can not join XP home to a domain. There's a few other quirks with XP home that I don't like either.
As for the media center, it is a separate version of XP with some multi-media stuff shoved into it. It's not going to be as stable as regular XP pro or home....mainly because they added more code to give it more "functionality" However MS never tends to work out all the bugs, so it's not surprising you're having issues with it.
I really didn't participate too much with the media center beta, but I did have a friend that bought an HP with media center and had nothing but problems. He ended up returning it and getting another one because there was a newer version of media center that was released after he bought his original PC.
I beta tested pretty much all the flavors of windows from 98 to XP. XP home and pro were pretty close to being the same at the beginning of the beta. As time went along, they started stripping functionality from home edition. Mainly in the networking department. You can not join XP home to a domain. There's a few other quirks with XP home that I don't like either.
As for the media center, it is a separate version of XP with some multi-media stuff shoved into it. It's not going to be as stable as regular XP pro or home....mainly because they added more code to give it more "functionality" However MS never tends to work out all the bugs, so it's not surprising you're having issues with it.
I really didn't participate too much with the media center beta, but I did have a friend that bought an HP with media center and had nothing but problems. He ended up returning it and getting another one because there was a newer version of media center that was released after he bought his original PC.
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:23 am
I got the service pack 2 media center edition. Works pretty well, the only bug I've noticed may not be window's fault, but firefox craps out when I want to print 