Can't speak to XP Home ed., but I've done everything I can think of to try and crash XP Pro, including some reliable and repeatable combinations of app's that used to grenade Me 100% of the time, and I'll be darned if I can stop it! I've left mine running for three days at a stretch - no problemo.

Believe me (and a bunch of others herein) - you'll be GLAD you upgraded from Me to XP!



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"Life is never so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy." Emerson
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Dimension 8100, 1.4G P4
Service Tag 48TKL01, A09 BIOS
Win XP Pro/Win Me dual boot
512M PC800 RDRAM
60G Maxtor ultra ATA100 primary
13.6G Maxtor ATA66 secondary
M991 monitor
16X NEC DVD ROM
8x4x24 Yamaha CD/RW (SCSI)
100M Zip & 1G Jaz - SCSI
Altec Lansing ADA 885 THX
SoundBlaster Live! Value
32MB Nvidia GeForce2 MX 4X AGP
HP LJ II (parallel)
HP OfficeJet G85Xi (USB)

When I had Win ME I would not leave my system running for a long time without rebooting to free up system resources due to system slow downs.

I have been running XP home for about 3 weeks now and I can leave it running all day without any loss of resources or any system slow downs. I believe XP handles memory differently than the old Windows 9x versions and is much more efficient.




Dimension 8100 1.3ghz
20gb Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 hard drive
40gb Western Digital Ultra ATA/100 hard drive
512mb PC800 RAM
19" Viewsonic G90mb monitor
32mb NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 4x w/TV out
SB Live! digital soundcard with 1024 voices
Labtec Pulse-424 speakers with subwoofer
16X DVD ROM drive
8X/4X/32X CD-RW drive
Dell enhanced performance USB keyboard
Logitech cordless optical mouse
3Com Etherlink 10/100 PCI ethernet card
COM21 DP1100 cable modem with AT&T@home
HP Laserjet 1200se
HP Deskjet 970Cxi
HP Scanjet 5470Cxi
Dual boot Windows ME / Windows XP home
BIOS version A09 (works fine with XP)
Build date 7/7/01

Also my tower "chirps" every once in a while now that i've upgraded to XP, does anyone else experience this? Wut does it mean?

WinXP is a very stable operating system bases on the NT/Win2000. I have run all operating systems from Win2.0 thru XP Home edition and XP Pro. XP Pro and Home Edition are almost identical. Pro is geared towards server application in a business environment. But the same system is used for both Home and Pro.

Resources in XP are greatly an improvement over the Win90's / ME systems of the past. With in the next 1-2 years Win 90's/ME will be dinosoars and will be history. Xp will rule and a very stable platform.

At work I loaded Evaluation copies a couple moths ago and I have yet shut my system down. I even leave it running over the weekends. Hell I am off from noon last Wednesday And I won't be back there until Monday. And I know it'll be in the same condition as I left it.

Go For it you can not go wrong......

BTurpin111@aol.com

Dimension 4300
P4 1.6
512MB

This was the primary reason I upgraded to XP. With Me, I constantly encountered "user resource" issues, particularly with a couple of apps I use intensively for web design. MusicMatch Jukebox Plus was another prime offender.

With XP Pro, I can load any number of instances of any or all of the former offenders, and it digests it all without a hiccup.

For once, the product lives up to its hype - MS hit a HOME RUN as far as I'm concerned!



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"Life is never so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy." Emerson
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Dimension 8100, 1.4G P4
Service Tag 48TKL01, A09 BIOS
Win XP Pro/Win Me dual boot
512M PC800 RDRAM
60G Maxtor ultra ATA100 primary
13.6G Maxtor ATA66 secondary
M991 monitor
16X NEC DVD ROM
8x4x24 Yamaha CD/RW (SCSI)
100M Zip & 1G Jaz - SCSI
Altec Lansing ADA 885 THX
SoundBlaster Live! Value
32MB Nvidia GeForce2 MX 4X AGP
HP LJ II (parallel)
HP OfficeJet G85Xi (USB)

I have had XP Pro since beta 1 and beta 2 and now the release version and not once had a crash or lock-up. Now that the vendors and Dell have updated software and drivers to work with it, nothing could be sweeter. There is nothing out there as stable as that to go to. Also, having trashed ALL my HP products and switched to Epson, I can honestly say I have one very sweet complete system! Nothing works wrong or bad. HP was a thorn in my systems printer and scanner. Epson was a 'right' choice and all is well now...

Art

Art
Dimension 8100 Pent 4 1.7
256MB RDRAM
2 - 40GB MaxtorPlus HDs
Imation 8-20 CD-R SCSI
LG 8080b CD-RW IDE
XP Pro
Office XP
Epson C80 printer
Epson1240U scanner











Message Edited on 11/23/01 07:21PM by thor85