Originally posted by DarkerMotives
I cant play my favorite old dos games in XP. Its got terrible support for dos programs thats why many people hate it.
Get a DOS emulator then. It's not that difficult to run, and that is no reason at all to hate Windows XP.
Most people hate it because they hate microsoft by default because the company is so large and is mainstream. A lot of the people who say that Microsoft sucks are the people that have no reason to hate them, and they go download illegal copies of XP and other software from Microsoft anyhow.
Ctrl-Alt-Delete doesn't override running programs. Perhaps my biggest gripe. When a program crashes on the computer, keying the magic trio does not override it and immediately bring up the task manager. Instead, it waits for the problem to finish using system resources (read: never) before the handy window pops up. And killing the unresponsive program via "end program now" takes forever.
For this issue you need to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and end the process, not the application. When you end the application then you are going to have to wait until it responds. If you want to end the actual program altogether immediately then you have to end the process from the list of processes in the process tab.
Streaming video crashes the computer. This really pisses me off too. Want to watch a trailer for a movie online? Hah! Might as well forget it. I have yet to do so successfully. Windows Media player sits there forever at a loading screen before crashing the system, and Quicktime (true to its name) doesn't even wait that long before crashing things irreperably.
That's not XP, that's something else.
- LAN issues. In my apartment there are 2 machines running Win98 that communicate just fine with each other, but XP won't talk to either for file sharing ("Network Neighbourhood" etc...) - though it plays LAN games just fine.
In order to enable file sharing between computers running different operating systems and XP, you need to run the wizard that comes with XP. It will guide you step by step through the process to set up a network on all computers, and it will help you create a disk that will load the necessary files onto 98 or 95 to make the networks work. I'm running XP on two computers, 2000 on another, 98 SE on one more, and they all communicate perfectly on my LAN. Although I have XP Professional, and Pro comes with more options than Home edition does, but that still wouldn't be too big of an issue for the networking deal.
we were on dial up so that "loads updates automaticaly" thing SUCKED, you couldnt do ANYTHING online cuase it would always be doing an autoupdate.
Then turn it off. There's an option that allows you to have auto update on or off - it's your choice.
i cant believe ANYONE would say that XP is stable!!!!
I can't believe you don't think it is stable. I have yet to get any blue screen of death, or a complete system crash, and I've been using XP for almost two years now. Compared to Windows 95 or ME which would have an error every other minute.
But for some reason my AOL will freeze when trying to open some pages using the AOL browser, not sure if its my modem or what...anyone know if XP can fix this?
Basically, AOL is crap. They load up hundreds of unecessary thigns just so that they can connect you to the internet. Really, it's a program that is pumped up with lots of useless crap so that they can make it "easy to use." When in fact all it's doing in the process is slowing down your computer. I wouldn't mind AOL so much if they didn't do that, but unfortunate for the millions of americans that actually pay for their crappy service, that is the case. I say just get cable or DSL - pay the extra 15 to 20 bucks a month and you'll never look back again.
