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Answer» Quote from: Richenstony on October 01, 2007, 06:10:23 AM Windows x-p is a brilliant os , however .... the speed all depends on the upgrades you make prior to installing x-p ..... for example ...... if i had 1 gb of ram ..... and my buddy had 2gbs he will be able to handle a few more applactions than me without the hanging , its the same with the cpu , if i was to get a dual core and my buddy got a p4 , a dual core would smoke the p4 just by its shear power ..... so yeah like contrex said it all depends on upgrades and not only that how you treat your computer , registry scans , virus scans , etc keeping it nice and clean will also improve your speed......... I agree, my computer was crashing constantly, turns out it was all because of the software I had running.I answered average. My impression of XP's speed has changed with my RAM upgrades. I wasn't happy at all with XP speed when I only had the 128mb my computer came with. As I've upgraded to 256 mb, then 768mb and now 1024mb of RAM my opinion has changed. One thing that has impressed me from the start (especially since I upgraded from ME) is XP stability. I'm running from an install that's over two years old. XP is sweet, if properly configured, tweaked, and, otherwise raped of all useless features, such as, windows security, automatic updates, windows file protection, the evil SOB dr. watson, and several other things removed after file protection is gone. i have ran XP on a 766mhz celeron, with 384mb of PC133, and a 20gb IBM HDD, ran fine, bit SLOW on boot, great lil web browsing machine, would be good to setup next to your bed for music and web browsing, seeing as it ran extremely cool and quiet. frankly, i love windows xp professional, and, in my native tongue, aint no one can tell me that xp aint the best OS out there, aside from a few thousand crashes on unstable wal-mart computers... for the most part, xp has been deemed junk by idiots. namely the twelve o' clock flashers, where every freaking appliance in there house flashes twelve o clock all the time. sure, xp sucks royally if its not configured properly, and its left running for too long, but i can fix this by killing the windows explorer in the task manager, and re-starting it through there also, no reboot needed, w00t for me. when i setup my own server i will likely setup a batch file that executes every 12hrs or so to "refresh" the explorer. better than a reboot. after all, my server will just be a 2.0ghz celeron 512mb of DDR266, and whatever large cheap IDE HDD's i can get, running server 2003, which i can get for free through my college, w00t again. oh, ANOTHER thing i love about xp, laptop features, though, it takes quite a while longer for the installer to load all the laptop crap into the RAM, which, for those of you who didnt know, is exactly where the xp installer puts the crap while its installing in the text interface. oh, one final thing i love about xp, they made a 64b edition, which, will work very nicely with the orange box release on my inspiron im getting next month, if you want to know the specs of the inspiron im getting, message me. the orange box release supports multi threading, meaning, with dual core CPU's, the physics engine is on core 2, the game is on core 1, and in a 64b environment, the game can utilize up to the max 128gb of ram, rather than the 3.5 for a 32b environment. well, i think ive spoke my love for xp long enough, and i will end on the note of these funny video's: http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=8ie9xu7dzb http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=dimr6351v2 Quote from: Dead_Reckon on October 07, 2007, 06:24:18 PM Dr. Watson Yeah in my processes tab I always have Dr.Watson Post Mort* and until I close it, my system stays froze perhaps you know why? I am not even sure what it does to tell you the truth Dr. Watson for Windows is a program error debugger that gathers information about your computer when an error (or user-mode fault) occurs with a program. Technical support GROUPS can use the information that Dr. Watson obtains and logs to diagnose a program error. When an error is detected, Dr. Watson creates a text file (Drwtsn32.log) that can be delivered to support personnel by the method they prefer. You also have the option of creating a crash dump file, which is a binary file that a programmer can load into a debugger. If a program error occurs, Dr. Watson for Windows starts automatically. To configure Dr. Watson, follow these steps: 1.Click Start, and then click Run. 2.Type drwtsn32, and then click OK. So you see the program is an "error detective's assistant". It is named after the Doctor Watson who was the assistant of the famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Thank you ! If you see Dr Watson a lot, it may be a sign your system is not very stable. My Pc never crashs, it just freezes every now and again, and when i shut that down it runs normally again ! will do the above when i get home Quote from: Spero-T on October 08, 2007, 02:40:36 AM My Pc never crashs, it just freezes every now and again Oh right. That's like saying, "My mother isn't a lush, she just gets sh*tfaced every now and then". *sighs* Yes..... Yes it is..... Quote from: contrex on October 08, 2007, 03:03:09 AM Quote from: Spero-T on October 08, 2007, 02:40:36 AMMy Pc never crashs, it just freezes every now and again Rofl, i ALMOST fell of the couch laughing. on the note of the good doctor, he also dumps the cached crap in the RAM which eats up 40mb or more of RAM while dumping some ODD amount of it, i recommend killing him. Google on how to kill him, i dont have the time to explain at the moment.Quote from: Dead_Reckon on October 09, 2007, 04:25:25 AM Rofl, i almost fell of the couch laughing. on the note of the good doctor, he also dumps the cached crap in the RAM which eats up 40mb or more of RAM while dumping some odd amount of it, i recommend killing him. Google on how to kill him, i dont have the time to explain at the moment. Kill Dr. Watson <-- Here is the web page |
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