Reinstalling XP When you're me sucks.

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Originally posted by MistaX
I didn't lose any software, It's just the stuff windows had, ya know, IE favs, desktop shortcuts, start menu items.

I lost no stuff besides that.

Oh and how much of it is warez?
Win XP Pro, err.. my FTP prog, Mem turbo.. thats about all that i use everyday that i gots for free :)

DONT REPORT ME TO M$.
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I know, but you could have backed that up easily. Just copy the favorites folder, ect.

Obviously WinXP dosn't store it in documents and settings....
 
Originally posted by Deathhawk
Learn something new every day. I knew it was around longer than windows since they used DOS for a long time.

Oh, the GUI idea was lifted off of one of the fax manufacturers (can't remember which) but Mac developed it faster once they checked out the software, and drove them out before production.

Anyone know what happened to that "Doors" OS?
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I believe it was Xerox.....just my :2cents: in this discussion.
 
today i took XP off my pc and put 98SE on it. holy ****balls! 4 seconds after i push the power button, its ready to roll. it took be 4 hours to install 98, put all my software back on and get all the settings right again but hey, its running a hell of a lot faster than XP ever did.
 
Hmmm. Well, I think the salutory lesson of this thread backs up my own personal experience, which is that XP is rubbish. I now have 2K Pro on my desktop at work and my home PC, and I absolutely love it. I would install it on my laptop (currently 98SE), but I like to be able to play games in hotel rooms!

It strikes me that the whole XP release (that's including Office XP) is seriously lacking in the quality control. All XP software is significantly less reliable than the 2000 releases, and that's before you take into account the fact that the 2000 platform is mature and stable.

MS will have to try quite hard to get me off my 2000 based systems.

Oh, and Deathhawk/Pako: You're right, Xerox paid for the initial development of the Mac OS, but then decided that they didn't want to go into the microcomputer business. There are also tales of workers who did things for $10,000 cash, instead of $10,000 in shares, which they could then have sold later for in excess of $1m. The genesis of Apple and the Macintosh is an interesting story.
 

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