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How is your Windows XP stability?

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I have 2 desktops 1.1 and 1.2mhz AMDS and a 733 mhz intel and xp rocks!! 1 system is NTFS and the other 2 I upgraded still using the fat32 file system, no lock ups at all! Im using gf2 gts and a gf3 vid card with the 23.11 drivers with the desktops and so far no problems.
 
No problems here with XP Pro,I just wish more drivers would be XP certified but I know that will happen in the future.

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I don't think we're going to have the driver update problem in moving from XP to some other XP update for quite a while. I think MS believes the XP platform to be the future, or at least for quite some time. This is the BIG migration from DOS/Win 3.11/Win95/Win98/WinME. No more native 16 bit support, no more 16 bit code in the kernal.

95/98/ME were all incremental steps to wean everybody off of their old 16 bit apps. Now that MS has finally made a clean break from that old platform they can concentrate on XP.

I could be way off here, but I'm thinking MS has many advantages with XP for stability purposes.
- Designed from the ground up to be 32 bit, not concerned with legacy apps.
- Less OS's to support, more time can be spent supporting XP.
- XP home and Pro built on the same kernal, again less variations to support.

I can't help but wondering if the people who are having bad experiences with XP have some hardware with badly written drivers, or have done an upgrade and not a fresh install.
 
I love WinXP, it's the greatest OS I've ever used (that includes Win2k, 98, 98SE, and ME). Stability is great, not one BSOD since I upgraded 2 weeks ago (in 98 I'd get occasional BSOD's, and in ME it would be several times a week).

I can't complain about stability, and the general setup of XP is better than any other OS IMO. Even though I'm still having trouble learning where everything is, everything is great! 🙂

Btw, the people who are having problems with XP might want to consider these possibilities:

XP is still brand new, and of course that means MS hasn't worked out all the quirks. For example, if you had ANY type of anti-virus software installed before upgrading to XP, then there's a definite chance you'll get all types of problems. XP has it's own security protection, and so it doesn't require separate anti-virus software.

Roxio CD Creator and their derivatives aren't welcome in XP, but they can still function the vast majority of the time. Again, XP has a "CD Creator like" function of it's own, and so it doesn't like separate Roxio software stuff.

XP Stability: 10
XP Features: 9
XP Support: 9/10
XP Overall Rating: 9*

*Based on a scale of 1-10
 
I'm impressed also. With almost all the 9x based OS's I'v run, none have ever proven reliable in the least. It's come to the point where I completely trust my computer to wrok the same way every time I start it up. Its kind of like having a computer on a network without having the network 😛. Windows XP was exactly what PC users needed IMO.
 
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