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BEST WINDOWS SO FAR
Review From: DJ, Jun 24, 2004
Aside from the abominable Windows ME,
windows has steadily improved in each
consecutive release. XP is an
extraordinarily stable system that is
enough of a departure from the 95-98
gui that I had to do a little research
to familiarize myself with the more
technical admistrative tasks but not
so much as to be overwhelming at all.
The system recovery is phenominal and
I cannot recall ever having to reboot
due to locking-up. This on a machine
that, running Windows ME, had to be re-
booted several times a day running
essentially the same programs. This is
a home office PC.
Extreme multi-tasking, which often
crippled ME and was the main reason
98SE would, on rare occasion, crash,
is handled with ease by XP.
Setting up a WI-FI home network with
XP was done easily with the XP GUI.
However, the interface with units
still running ME was not easily
established and was only resolved by
upgrading ALL PC's in the home to XP.
Which is actually a GOOD thing but of
concern to anyone not in a position do
install XP on all PC's in a network.
I have come to rely on this product
and recommend it for home office and
personal PC users without any
hesitation.