https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1230 ----------------------------------- Hawktoey Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 05:58 PM Just a note about me absence.... ----------------------------------- I try to get here as often as possible, everyday if I can. The last two weeks have been heck with my system. I had put XP Pro on and it was a clean install. I re-partitioned, re-formatted, and installed XP. Then did the updates to drivers and all. I have never seen my system so ill responding! I went to a guru freind of mine and they directed me to a place that deals with nothing but XP related problems. I need power because of the graphic software I am using. Not some freindly OS that can try and think what my next click is going to be. I paid this place $20 to have them give me a step by step instruction sheet on the changes I needed to make to have the system respond the way I needed, and it should of. Well didn't work, although their instructions where to a T and the system did prove to be better, it still was a far cry from Win2K Pro! So what does one do when it's broke? Fix it! So I did, another two days of re-partitioning, re-formatting, and installing a clean OS. This time back to what I know works. Win2K Pro. Then there's the few days needed to re-install all the software that was/is needed to continue onward. I am pretty close to a full recovery from XP Down Sindrome and should be back on track to my daily visits.....And to think they are talking about a new OS from Microsoft and getting rid of all previous versions! Longhorn OS........ ----------------------------------- tda42 Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 06:16 PM ----------------------------------- I've heard about Longhorn and it sounds like a pretty scary and nasty OS. It runs your life more than you would want them to know. Does Big Brother in the 21 Century ring a bell to you? I remember it in the 60s and it has come to this as an up to date Devils Curse. 8-[ ----------------------------------- Tormie Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 06:29 PM ----------------------------------- 20 bucks ? #-o #-o 20 bucks all together 8-[ ??? If you bought 2 new marble balls for Landman he would have helped you for sure :bigrinnin: !! ----------------------------------- Landman Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 06:46 PM ----------------------------------- as long as one was purple.... :-s ----------------------------------- Tormie Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 06:48 PM ----------------------------------- :oops: :oops: :oops: ----------------------------------- Ozymandias Jones Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 12:04 AM ----------------------------------- Good luck with it all Hawktoey. At the moment I know the feeling #-o Yeah, the OS's are getting a little too smart and a little too intrusive. I hate a computer second guessing my favourites, or my next move... or anything much for that matter. But then, I like to drive a manual transmission car too :) Can anyone spell 'luddite' :bigrinnin: ----------------------------------- Bonnie Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 02:29 PM ----------------------------------- Sure, I can spell ' luddite ' " l u d d i t e" There, see ! Now, what the heck does it mean ? :-k I will do a Google search and find out :whistle: ----------------------------------- Hawktoey Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 10:21 PM ----------------------------------- Luddite n. 1. Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment. 2. One who opposes technical or technological change. At least that's what came up on Dictionary.com :-k :-k ----------------------------------- Tormie Thursday, 20 January 2005, 12:28 AM ----------------------------------- :lol: :lol: :lol: ... 8-[ ----------------------------------- Poserkatz Thursday, 20 January 2005, 12:31 AM ----------------------------------- Let me be your luddity.. :whistle: :whistle: :whistle: ----------------------------------- Tormie Thursday, 20 January 2005, 12:32 AM ----------------------------------- 8-[ :oops: :oops: :oops: ----------------------------------- Posy Thursday, 20 January 2005, 12:33 AM ----------------------------------- [-( [-( [-( [-X ----------------------------------- Tormie Thursday, 20 January 2005, 12:33 AM ----------------------------------- :oops: :oops: :oops: ----------------------------------- Poserkatz Thursday, 20 January 2005, 12:35 AM ----------------------------------- :-k ----------------------------------- Ozymandias Jones Thursday, 20 January 2005, 12:49 AM ----------------------------------- [quote="Hawktoey";p="17819"]Luddite n. 2. One who opposes technical or technological change. [/quote] I'll take column two, thanks :bigrinnin: Just let me fill this form in with my quill pen and attach it to the leg of a carrier pigeon... :whistle: ----------------------------------- Bonnie Thursday, 20 January 2005, 01:21 AM ----------------------------------- Those are pretty much what I found when I looked. Den is now the alpha "luddite". :lol: Always looking for ways to crash his computer. :roll: It's him versus the chips :lol: The chips (not the potato kind) are winning :lol: ----------------------------------- Hawktoey Thursday, 20 January 2005, 02:26 AM ----------------------------------- :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: ----------------------------------- Paul Mon Friday, 21 January 2005, 11:49 AM ----------------------------------- Well...I upgraded my comp over the weekend from 98se to XP Home and it's running better than ever. I was surprised how well it identified all my hardware and Uru: Beyond Myst runs much better as do Poser and my other programs. I have heard of problems with the SP2 upgrade but I have no personal experience of this. It is a right royal pain to go through all the reformatting and installing all the programs though ](*,) Did you have FAT32 or NTFS? ----------------------------------- Landman Friday, 21 January 2005, 03:56 PM ----------------------------------- [quote] Well...I upgraded my comp over the weekend from 98se to XP Home and it's running better than ever. I was surprised how well it identified all my hardware and Uru: [/quote] :thumbleft: Just make sure when you run Service Pack 2, to close all other programs, turn off any screen savers, hybernation and stand by, anything that may interupt the install because on a fast machine the innitial install takes approx. 45 minutes. it could be longer on a slower machine. also as a side note, SP2 enables the windows firewall by default, so if you have problems with any virus software updating or any network utility not working correctly, that would be a good place to start trouble shooting. secondly, the NTFS file system is the better and faster one. I don't recommend compression as i have had problems with hard drive crashes when I enabled it. just remember that any FAT or FAT32 file allocation table dependant operating system will not be able to see the NTFS partition without XP running to share it. ----------------------------------- Hawktoey Saturday, 22 January 2005, 05:42 AM ----------------------------------- NTFS is always choosen method for me. I have a notebook and it's running WinXP Pro SP2. The first time SP2 installed it crashed my hard drive after it re-booted the system and I had to start over again with it. But that wasn't so bad as I do all updates before installing any other software. So it was only a matter of re-installing XP. The second time I did not allow it to re-boot my machine when it was finished. I let the computer sit for about five minutes after that then re-booted and it took fine. Notebook is running like a champ but I cannot use a couple of programs on it that I do my desktop. This is alright also as those programs require a higher screen resolution than the 1024 x 768 that the notebook offers.