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 6. "RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge..."
10-19-02, 10:04z 

Greetings Pete,

<<I'm a bit late, but I just thought I'd try to offer the contrary side for a more balanced view <G>: >>

Me senses you're going to be a troublemaker!! ;-)

<<Seems as good/bad, or actually slightly worse, than Win98SE here. And when it does crash, whether process or whole system, it's a b****r to find out what's gone wrong. The Dr Watson is next to useless and the other crash details are nearly always totally irrelevant. There's no way I can do decent debugging on the rotten thing.>>

When a program crashes you're given the opportunity to send the info to Microsoft. Whether you do or don't a prompt allows you to examine the info that will be sent. Is that different to what Dr Watson produces? Given that it tells you what files will be sent and shows detailed info useful to a programmer isn't that of any use?

<<Sophistication = complication = obscure bugs & less performance >>

I agree that sophistication can mean complexity but I really can't say anything about obscure bugs because I really don't have any problems using the OS. I don't have tools to measure against any other OS I'm afraid.

<<> Memory management is miles better

Not sure how you judge that. Are you watching it being allocated and reallocated somewhere? >>

If you right-click on the taskbar and choose Task Manager / Performance tab you can observe how much memory is currently available. Although Me had no comparable measuring tool I have never run out of memory whereas this did occasionally happen with Me. However, that was with 384Mb of RAM compared to my current 512Mb so that could be a factor. But, I have heard that XP reallocates memory away from programs that are running but minimised thereby giving more to active program(s). I have no way of proving that - just something I heard.

<<Actually I've seen more BSODs or outright total hangs (three fingers not even working -- hardware reset jobs) in WinXP than I have in quite a while on any of my Win98SE systems. I think you must lead a very unadventurous life with your XP system! <G> >>

You must be running some strange software! <g> I assume you've downloaded all the updates including the recent Service Pack 1? Up here XP Home remains 99% stable and is a pleasure to use. Wanna swap PCs? <bg>

Regards,

Ray Proudfoot,
Cheshire, England

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  Subject      Author      Message Date     ID   
  XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe GeForc...    Ben_Chiu      09-25-02       
     RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   James[Sysop]      09-25-02      1   
     RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   Emile[Crew]      10-08-02      2   
        RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-08-02      3   
             RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      10-19-02      5   
                  RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...    RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-19-02      6   
                       RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      10-20-02      7   
                            RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-20-02      8   
                                 RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   Stephen[Sysop]      10-20-02      9   
                                 RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      10-22-02      12   
                                      RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-23-02      14   
                                           RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      10-24-02      16   
                                                RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-25-02      20   
                                                     RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      10-25-02      21   
                                                          RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-26-02      22   
                                                               RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      10-27-02      23   
                                                                    RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-27-02      26   
                                                                         RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   Vulcan[Guest]      10-28-02      29   
                                                                              RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-28-02      33   
                                                                                   RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      10-29-02      35   
                                                                                        RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-29-02      39   
                                                                    RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   andrewluck[Crew]      11-09-02      41   
                                                                         RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      11-10-02      42   
                                                                              RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   andrewluck[Crew]      11-10-02      43   
                                                                                   RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      11-11-02      44   
                                                                                        RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   andrewluck[Crew]      11-11-02      45   
                                                                                             RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   andrewluck[Crew]      11-12-02      46   
                                                                                        RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   Mike_Greenwood[Admin]      11-14-02      49   
                                                                                             RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      11-14-02      50   
                                                                                                  RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   Mike_Greenwood[Admin]      11-14-02      51   
                                                          RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   TD[Guest]      10-28-02      31   
                                                               RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      10-29-02      36   
                                                               RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      10-29-02      37   
                                                               RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      10-29-02      38   
                                                     RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   AlanParkinson[Guest]      10-27-02      24   
                                                          RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-27-02      25   
                                                               RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   vgbaron[Sysop]      10-27-02      27   
                                                                    RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-27-02      28   
                                                               RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   Vulcan[Guest]      10-28-02      30   
                                                                    RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   AlanParkinson[Guest]      10-28-02      32   
                                                                    RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-28-02      34   
                                                                    RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   AlanParkinson[Guest]      11-09-02      40   
                                                                         RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   BillC[Crew]      11-12-02      47   
                                                                              RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   AlanParkinson[Guest]      11-14-02      48   
                       RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      10-22-02      10   
                       RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PeteDowson[Crew]      10-22-02      11   
                  RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   Vulcan[Guest]      10-23-02      13   
                       RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-23-02      15   
                            RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   Mike_Greenwood[Admin]      10-24-02      17   
                                 RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   RayProudfoot[Guest]      10-24-02      18   
                                      RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   Mike_Greenwood[Admin]      10-25-02      19   
        RE: XP SP1 and FS2K2 menu (maybe Ge...   PaulCroft[Crew]      10-10-02      4   

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