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I've had XP for a few days on my new laptop :) and already I've found a couple of bugs. The biggest one is when you switch between profiles - it goes really really slow, almost crashing, and doesn't seem to recover. Obviously you can just log off profiles and then switch, which works fine, but that defeats the point of having the option in the first place!
Has anyone else experienced this? What other bugs have you encountered with XP?
Also, could my problems be down to the virtual memory? I haven't got round to fiddling with the new fangled control panel yet, so it's still at the factory settings. Suggestions?
Has anyone else experienced this? What other bugs have you encountered with XP?
Also, could my problems be down to the virtual memory? I haven't got round to fiddling with the new fangled control panel yet, so it's still at the factory settings. Suggestions?
monkey_man wrote:
> Cheers, but I already knew that. And the laptop has 512 Mb RAM,
> which is more than enough.
You can never have enough RAM.
*eye twitches*
> Cheers, but I already knew that. And the laptop has 512 Mb RAM,
> which is more than enough.
You can never have enough RAM.
*eye twitches*
TGMbloke wrote:
> Easy why XP does this. I does not simply unload the previous and load
> the new, which is what happens when you log out and into another.
> Instead - it keeps both running at ONCE.
>
> I.e. Your in "USER ONE". Switch to "USER TWO" and
> ALL of the programs in "USER ONE" are STILL working in the
> background. The memory has not be cleared, both are running at once.
>
> HOWEVER - If you log out of USer One and Log into User tow (Which you
> say runs fine) the memory is cleared.
>
> On a laptop, no wonder it would be slow swicthing - I would not
> imagaine it to have much Ram.
>
> So there you go :D
>
> Why you would want to profiles open at once though is a mystery...
Worst. Spelling. Ever.
Cheers, but I already knew that. And the laptop has 512 Mb RAM, which is more than enough.
> Easy why XP does this. I does not simply unload the previous and load
> the new, which is what happens when you log out and into another.
> Instead - it keeps both running at ONCE.
>
> I.e. Your in "USER ONE". Switch to "USER TWO" and
> ALL of the programs in "USER ONE" are STILL working in the
> background. The memory has not be cleared, both are running at once.
>
> HOWEVER - If you log out of USer One and Log into User tow (Which you
> say runs fine) the memory is cleared.
>
> On a laptop, no wonder it would be slow swicthing - I would not
> imagaine it to have much Ram.
>
> So there you go :D
>
> Why you would want to profiles open at once though is a mystery...
Worst. Spelling. Ever.
Cheers, but I already knew that. And the laptop has 512 Mb RAM, which is more than enough.
TGMbloke wrote:
> See - No bugs in XP :)
...
...
*explodes*
> See - No bugs in XP :)
...
...
*explodes*
My PC used to have that problem, would sometimes crash when you tried to switch between the profiles.
Works fine now though and I have no idea what we did to sort it out.
I take it you have downloaded all the service packs etc from the windows update?
Works fine now though and I have no idea what we did to sort it out.
I take it you have downloaded all the service packs etc from the windows update?
I've had XP for a few days on my new laptop :) and already I've found a couple of bugs. The biggest one is when you switch between profiles - it goes really really slow, almost crashing, and doesn't seem to recover. Obviously you can just log off profiles and then switch, which works fine, but that defeats the point of having the option in the first place!
Has anyone else experienced this? What other bugs have you encountered with XP?
Also, could my problems be down to the virtual memory? I haven't got round to fiddling with the new fangled control panel yet, so it's still at the factory settings. Suggestions?
Has anyone else experienced this? What other bugs have you encountered with XP?
Also, could my problems be down to the virtual memory? I haven't got round to fiddling with the new fangled control panel yet, so it's still at the factory settings. Suggestions?