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To: Matt Brown who wrote (24221)	1/2/2002 10:11:58 PM
From: Stang	Read Replies (2) of 110653

Here's my observations on XP. First XP home vs XP pro. XP Home will not support multi processor systems and will not connect to a Domain Controller on a lan so therefore I chose XP Pro. Most crucial thing to do before an XP upgrade is to MAKE SURE your hardware is supported. A good resource here: microsoft.com See if your hardware is supported. If not visit the vendor's site and download the latest drivers. On one system I did a clean install (Wiped the drive via fdisk). Everything worked first try except multi-monitor. Actually my second video card was not supported according to HCL. Had to go out and buy another one. Man I love the multi-monitor setup whem I'm trading. This system originally had 128 meg and I found XP a bit sluggish so dicided to stick another 128 meg. Now XP rocks. For this system I chose the NTFS file system for added security. Setting a home lan was a very easy via XP. The built wizards take care of everything. I'm using the built in firewall of XP. I did tweak the system a bit. Stuff like disabling services that I don't require. After a few days of using the system I ran disk defrag a few times and the system is even faster now especially when using your favorite applications. Laptop: Upgraded the ThinkPad from WindowsME (Yuck) to XP. Everything worked first try. Was impressed cause the ThinkPads have allot of IBM specific hardware(Audio, video capture ...) Overall well worth the upgrade for my specific needs. I have never crashed yet ( no BSOD)... My systems are on 24 hours a day and get heavy usage during the day. On a sad note my favorite game of all time Driver 1 for the PC will not work on XP :-(I know it's an old game but I'm the champion!!!) Will probably end up doing a multi boot to Win98 so that I can play. Stang

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