Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : A.I.M Users Group Bulletin Board -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: whitelake who wrote (17208)	11/1/2001 11:30:49 AM
From: Steve Grabczyk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi John: Well I actually did not upgrade, but rather purchased 2 new HP PC's pre-loaded with WIN XP Home. One for my son as mentioned earlier, and a new one for myself. My intent is to set up a wireless home network so that we can share our internet connection, printers and scanner (plus I gotta keep my eye on usage, etc). My current PC is running WIN 95, which is quite old. You cannot upgrade from 95 to XP. I never went to 98 due to the chronic instability folks had been experiencing, and have been waiting hopefully and patiently for XP since last year. To your question; I did quite a bit of reseach (and continue to) as to XP's stability, etc. PC Magazine, to which I subscribe, made the following recommendations last week. To wit: Best to start with XP as a new install on a new box. If you are going to upgrade, do so from 98 or ME, but not worth it from NT or 2000. MS recommends 128 meg RAM, but 256 will serve you better. Have plenty of HD space because XP takes up over 2gb as I recall. Typical MS 'Bloatware'. If you go to PCMAG.COM, I'm sure you can find the many articles written over the last few months in this regard. I set my PC up last night. XP makes it very easy to configure anything. Wizards all over the place. Media stuff is way cool, but I mistook one button for another and started copying a song from a CD I was playing. Since I have 512mb RAM, It did it in about 5 seconds for a 3 minute song. I think I'm going to buy XP for Dummies today! Other than that, everything I've looked as is pretty neat, but I have a lot to learn. One thing is that it's very intuitive. Maybe too much so. All navigation uses a browser metaphor, and that seems like overkill to me at the moment, but I may come to appreciate it. You can make XP look and feel more like classic Windows by changing the desktop schema to resemble it. I will say that the XP scheme is sorta juvenile looking IMO. Almost cartoonish. Regards, Steve