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lol thats funny i dunno then abuot my comp.

never had any problems with any of that crap

my gf has tons of problems with msn 6.1 in windows 98. but her comp is jacked up lol

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lol 98 is a POS lol but everytime windows installs on a system it installs diffrently. soooo who knows, you must jsut have a good install.

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Thats funny, I've had more problems with XP then I've ever had with windows 98.. I'm 98 for ------- life ;D

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I run win2k now. But for years I was a linux user. I was usin redhat since 2.5 ;)

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Im using 98se and love it. Dont really like xp. My pops gave me suse linux but i never messed around with it.

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i run win2k pro sp4 now.
i find it a lot more secure and stable than XP.

i don't think anyone could guess by my name that i'd have ever used linux before...

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I ran xp home for a while and then decided to upgrade to xp pro because of the better networking capabilities for my domain.
So much ---- went wrong once I installed pro I pulled it off a week later. Stupid ---- wasn't working like plug and play, it wouldn't pick up certain drives etc.
I only upgraded to pro. If i did a clean install maybe it probably would have worked better.

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Ya know, XP is stable when there isn't a lot of background crap. I'd say that most crashes in MS programs (Internet Explorer, Outlook/Express) are caused by BHOs (Browser Helper Objects). Particularly, the spyware ones. I've helped countless friends who say XP sucks, always crashes, etc. I take a look at a few things and see that they have tons of toolbars/spyware attached to IE. I clean it up and it runs like a champ.

For XP Pro and I think Win2k, you can use the command line utility, tasklist. There's a switch you can use (/m) that will list all the DLLs a particular program uses. For IE, there's a standard set of DLLs. When I start seeing oddball ones, like bi.dll or coolweb.dll, things like that..ugh!

For the programs that crash, you can hit details and find out WHERE and in WHAT DLL the crash occurred. Most of the time it's some 3rd party DLL.

There...had to get that off my chest.

-Tim

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cygwin rules btw.

most of linux ported to win32. so you can get used to it before you switch, or if you are an avid linux user and you find yourself at the c:\ trying to 'ls' or 'rm' something.

www.cygwin.com .

also, gcc is available for w32 as well.

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Im running firebird(mozilla heavy) on xp.. I like it..

-CF