Hi Ray,> I think I'm going to start calling you "multiple Dowson" (with apologies
> to multiple Miggs (or was it Meigs?) in Silence of the Lambs) for your
> repeated postings of the same message 
I only post them once. I've been having enormous problems with VPC and the OLR in particular, these last few weeks. In fact it was these problems that made me build an entirely new PC to replace my aging P2-450. I'm now using a P4-2GHz for Internet, Compilation, Documentation, and I've installed Win2000 Pro and 1GB memory to make it more suitable for Photoshop and Premiere with DV editing.
I still got the problems afterwards however. After much beating of head against wall I discovered that it was Norton Systemworks, though that did not get in the way of anything else. Oddly though, I've now *separately* installed the only two parts I installed and used, AntiVirus and Utilities, and everything now works. Must be something else which SystemWorks invisibly installs.
To cap it all another of my machines bellied yp a couple of days ago and it's taken me this long, full time, to figure it out -- after two Windows re-installs and a mobo and processor swap (with a spare I had in a cupboard) -- it looks like I might have it finally nailed as a Hard Disk giving intermittent total collapses! I think it must be electronic rather than media though 'cos I managed to get all the data off intact.
> Yes, I remember - just! I stick with my original opinion about stability
> despite all that's been said. As for efficiency I imagine you're
> probably right in that XP is excessively bloated to ensure reliability
No, that was NT4, and not "bloated" but "armour plated" <G>. It's XP which is generally regarded as bloatware with all the fluff added to it, most of which I've stripped off so it looks like a nice decent Win98! <G>
> but I'd rather have a few hundred mg of space consumed if it means a
> more stable system.
But it isn't. That's my point -- you yourself admitted you'd not had any problems with Win98SE, or was that WinMe, so what are you comparing it with? I get more crashes with WinXP using new XP drivers than I do with Win98SE using older well developed and tested drivers. One day XP will become as stable as Win98SE became after lots of bug fixing!
Oh, and so far Win2000 Pro, on my nice shiny new system, has crashed and auto-rebooted several times in a week. Can't find out why as it doesn't say. Just some gibberish about informing the "administrator" (i.e. me! <G>). Oh, and it crashes reliably (100%) when you tell it to shut down, so I have to wait till the PC starts booting again, then switch it off manually! I've NEVER had any of that with Win98, though it does seem reminiscent of Win95! <G>
Regards,
Pete
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