does anyone else have a problem with xp?

[metalgear]

I have an hp pavillion. It was purchased last fall some time, it came with windows xp. and I have so many problems with it, its not even funny any more I can't stand it. I have restart every time I want on the internet, don't think of useing Kazaa or many sharing progams. and the ram usage shoots to 100% half the time. Just a pain in the rump!

[Kane]

No problems like that. I've had WinXP now running for over a year no probs.

[metalgear]

I constintly have problems with home edition. my friend has office xp and you will never here him conplane. don't get me wrong I like XP as far as opporating systems go I like the best. I just can not get mine standing on both legs. you fix one problem and tan more spring up.

[Kane]

Make sure:
a) You have the latest drivers for all your hardware.
b) You have the latest BIOS revision for your motherboard
c) You have installed XP Service Pack 1 and all other Windows Fixes.

Failing that, set the priority of the P2P programs to low using Task Manager.

Futhermore, what spec is your machine?

[metalgear]

don't have them on hand (at a friends house). But what I can remember is Intel celeron 1gig processor somthing like 368 ram and thats all I can remember.

[Kane]

That's odd, as I had XP running happily on an Athlon 650 w/ 256Mb RAM.

[metalgear]

ya tell me about it when we frist got it, of the 30gigs of space on the hard drive they compter lefts us 12gigs of space. but sence XP is equiped with NTFS it make quite the difference is file storage. as opossed to FAT 32

[hoyoyo80]

Lord Kane...my last time pc(i already sell it to my cousin) with p3 800 384 mbram gforce 2 mx 32mb suffer a lot with XP pro/home when it come to gaming, the game sometimes lagging e.g neverwinter,max payne etc

[REi_FoX]

works fine with my PC...

[GALVATRON]

There are a bunch of threads on this forum about which is the best OS...

My computer-tech friend says XP.
I answered that it seems to have many conflict problems, as pointed out on this board.
He insisted it's still a more stable programming architecture, and that those errors are "software problems", not flaws with the OS itself.

Well that may be true, but my computer RUNs software, so that introduces a small problem. :eyes:

[Kirby]

I had to reinstall XP a couple of time, since I just like to screw around inside XP. But other than those instances, I've been happy with it

[metalgear]

Like I said before I like XP alot. I took an A+ course my sophmore year of high school and got to play windows 98 and windows 2000 profesional. not saying I'm a tech genius but I am a little educated. and after going form windows 3.11 straight to XP (with my home computer). I very much perfer XP to all others. although I've heard good things about linyx. never used it though or seen for that matter.

[jegHegy]

i plan on installing Windows 2000. is it any good? ^_^ i'm only doing it dual-boot at first, then i'll try it for a few weeks. maybe even keep it.

nyaa

[metalgear]

its all right my friend just installed it on his computer. no probelms works great. awesome OS for gaming though.

[Kid A]

I really like XP... I use a Pavilion too, and saw in the hp support page that they do NOT reccomend using WinXP on Pavilion PC's. I haven't had any problem though... just had to download some drivers for XP, which I happily found at www.hp.com
My Pavilion has lower specs than yours, i think... I am using an Athlon @800 Mhz, with 128 Mb RAM (updating soon ) And I use P2P programs such as edonkey2000 and winmx. I would reccomend you to visit the web I have shown before, and if you don't find what you are looking for, just email them: they used to reply me in less than one day (!!!!!), and put things very clear to me. That's all.

[SomeUserGuy]

i just installed xp yesterday and i'm surprised by it's speed. but that's probably cause i haven't installed much programs yet. but i'm loving it, not one error has occurred yet.