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"War of the Windows."

I have a relatively old (2000?) computer which has an ME operating system. I HATE having to use ME, due to it's amazingly poor memory handling abilities. It has crashed many times before due to a lack of systems resources ( I have the meter up at all times to make sure it doesn't crash). It also doesn't have the ability to run iTunes, which is useless me being an iPod owner. So I considered upgrading to XP.

I thought this would be a be all and end all solution, but an annoying little bird in my ear(perhaps cos they're right and that defeats me, or perhaps cos they're wrong and obstructing me) says that it's very hasslesome.

This is because I would need a whole new set of drivers.

So, to come down to the point:

Which is better; ME or XP?

Is it possible for me to convert to XP with relative ease and few expenses?

I have a relatively old (2000?) computer which has an ME operating system. I HATE having to use ME, due to it's amazingly poor memory handling abilities. It has crashed many times before due to a lack of systems resources ( I have the meter up at all times to make sure it doesn't crash). It also doesn't have the ability to run iTunes, which is useless me being an iPod owner. So I considered upgrading to XP.

I thought this would be a be all and end all solution, but an annoying little bird in my ear(perhaps cos they're right and that defeats me, or perhaps cos they're wrong and obstructing me) says that it's very hasslesome.

This is because I would need a whole new set of drivers.

So, to come down to the point:

Which is better; ME or XP?

Is it possible for me to convert to XP with relative ease and few expenses?

Buy XP Home, back-up all your important data, reformat the drive (NTFS), install XP in the partition, and voila.

XP > ME.

I completely get you....

*shoots self*

:D

Coin wrote:
> Buy XP Home,

Yes.

> back-up all your important data,

Good so far.

> reformat the drive (NTFS),

Gfah?

> install XP in the partition,

Que?

> and voila.

French?

:)

Perhaps a little more help explaining.


* No I'm not a n00b I'm just mentally inane.

I think the driver problems was only with the early editions of XP.

Its on SP2 now, and all my old crap works fine with it. Like my 7 year old HP 690C printer. Vintage.

> Buy XP Home

Make sure you go for the Service Pack 2 edition, it'll save you downloading it later.

> reformat the drive (NTFS)

Format your drive to start a fresh as normal, but select NTFS as opposed to FAT32. Just know that the NTFS set-up is a lot better for your system. If you pop in the XP CD it should do this for you, as well as partition it.

> install XP in the partition

The partition will be created after you format the drive. Nothing to worry about unless you start making multiple partitions. The hard drive you're using now is on a single partition, so it'll be nothing new to learn once XP is installed.

I went and fixed a friend of mines machine who was using ME.

Before, her machine was riddled with viruses, spyware and worms that had managed to exploit the loopholes ME exposed.

She's now got a fully reformatted XP (SP2'd system) that's firewalled, virus protected and pretty much sorted.

Moral of story?

ME is w**k.

How fast is the machine as if you do not have a powerful processor from 2000 you may find XP will be very sluggish (although it won't crash half as much as ME)

Is use ME on this desktop, and XP on my laptop. Put it this way: it's called ME for a reason.

Afternoon wrote:
> How fast is the machine as if you do not have a powerful processor
> from 2000 you may find XP will be very sluggish (although it won't
> crash half as much as ME)

That's what I could see as one of the few problems, myself. It's a 1.4, so an upgrade to XP might need a 2.3/4

I've run XP on a 1GHZ machine before and it performs well enough.