How is your Windows XP stability?

[Hulk]

I have to say I'm impressed. I upgraded to XP about a month ago and have not had a single lock up, crash, or need to reboot, except for installing things of course. Win98 SE was pretty good but this is extraordinary so far. I used to get the infrequent lock up in 98, maybe one or twice a week. Sometimes it wouldn't wake up or things like that.

It's not like I'm only running Word and Excel either. I regularly:

Watch TV using Marvel g450 etv
Capture MPEG II and avi using the above and avi_io
Capture DV using Firewire card
Edit video using MS Pro 6.5
Edit and record multitrack audio using Vegas Audio 2.0 and SoundForge
Rip DVD's
Encode via DivX
Lots of Corel Draw and Photopaint
Smartcard reader
UPload/download using mp3 player
Burn CD's
Scan images
Internet brouse
Watch movies
Play QIII

Among other things I can't think of right now. Often I'm doing a few of the above things at once. No crashes, not one.

My system is a P4 1.5 with 845 mobo.

I'm just wondering how other people's experience with XP has been thus far.

 

[HereThereandEverywhere]

When I had it, it was quite good, only crashed once, and that's because I kicked my computer with enough force to dent the case and it sorta...toppled over and um...yeah...

Anyway, it's not too bad, but I don't have as much memory as I'd like to run it.

 

[ProviaFan]

Works great for me. I got a two week uptime, but then had to reboot to install one of those necessary critical updates

 

[DocDoo]

Its just as reliable as my other Win2K system (and that never crashes). However, I do find one needs to "tweak" more things to get it where I like it...then again, that is because it has more fun stuff

 

[Entity]

Never had a problem, but I never had a stability problem with 2k, either.

Rob

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

for me XP was just not fast enough and compatible enough and easy enough to tweak. I just like everything plain and simple where i can easily access them.

 

[Joyride]

This is day 2 of my XP adventure.

I love it. So far i see no difference from Windows 2000.

I wouldn't trade it for the world.

I wonder how long this fascination will last

 

[Nothinman]

I've had a laptop with XP for a few weeks now and so far I'm happy, except I had a process go nuts and eat all the CPU, took like 5 minutes to get taskmanager up to kill it.

 

[UsandThem]

I really love this OS. It looks like with Windows 2000 and now Xp, Microsoft has made great strides in stabilty. Guess it only took them twenty years to learn that people want more stability and are willing to sacrifice a little performance to get it.

I just hope they don't turn around and release XP2002 or something anytime soon and put XP support and updates on the back-burner.

 

[Nothinman]

I really love this OS. It looks like with Windows 2000 and now Xp, Microsoft has made great strides in stabilty. Guess it only took them twenty years to learn that people want more stability and are willing to sacrifice a little performance to get it.

NT 4 was really stable and played OpenGL games great, it played glquake, Q3A, all the important games =)

 

[UsandThem]

<< NT 4 was really stable and played OpenGL games great, it played glquake, Q3A, all the important games =) >>



Yeah, once the got a few service packs out of the way. In the beginning it was rough with some things.

 

[RKAltimas01]

XP is just so beautiful to look at. I love it! Its very stable also!

 

[bacillus]

nothing bad to report of my XP install!

 

[Abzstrak]

While its not as stable as other OS's can be (like Solaris, AIX, etc...) it is a far cry from the win9x crap. But rememeber that it is the same level of stability that everyone has been enjoying with all Microsoft OS's based on the NT kernels. Ever wish now that U had gone to win2k 2 years ago? ;-)

 

[DBZGokuKS]

I'd say it's a huge improvement over Win9x/ME and 2000. Although I have had crashes and reboots, most are due to my lack of WinXP drivers for my videocard (which was also a problem in 2K). As a whole, I like it...though I can't boot it up right now, so I have to use 2K for the time being. =(

~KS

 

[ProviaFan]

<< Ever wish now that U had gone to win2k 2 years ago? ;-) >>



No, because I did.

 

[staticfly]

i must have bad luck.. but i have 3 computers with xp and i hate it... its slow and crashed/freezes up all the time.. plus i get strange errors ALL THE TIME... im not the only one a couple of friends don't like it either... i don't know what im doing wrong.

 

[Valinos]

I'm probably one of the few, but I've had a much worse time with XP than I did with 2k. Almost as bad as win98se.

Even before I upgraded to my new (and more crash-prone) motherboard I had some problems. I usually had a random reboot or lockup three or four times a month. Now it happens 2-3 times a day. I blame that on the mobo though. I've heard so much good stuff about the Soyo Dragon Plus that I was really let down that this thing is the biggest pile of crap since my Packard Bell 7 years ago.

Overall though, I dig XP. A little too different for my tastes, as it is hard finding some of the things I'm used to from Win2k (yes, I know you can switch it to classic mode, but why go with the old? Maybe I just bitch too much )

I still think Win2k is more stable.

 

[mellondust]

I had xp on two computers. One was very stable the other crashed and locked up all the time. I found out that most of my problems were from video card drivers that had some issues with xp. Once I got my card fixed, I had no problems at all.

 

[MasterD]

My XP experience is a mixed one but in the end good.
When i installed it on my Laptop, it worked like a charm. Even all the APM/speedstep stuff installed on the first try.

My desktop however was a disaster. I installed it the first time by just using the "upgrade" from ME option which was a mistake.
I kept getting some weird errors and after it froze up, i hard-booted it and then i got an error message before it would go into windows so windows would not boot up.
So, i just formatted into an NTFS partition and since then everything is great. After about 2 weeks uptime, my system seems to start lagging, but then again.... its better than my 2 day max uptime with ME.



.... and then there is FreeBSD which is at 103 days and going strong

 

[Dabappa]

My XP (Home) crashed within 10 minutes of changing users with the multiple user login. I scrapped that idea and just have the main logon now.

XP crashed all the time with Zone Alarm and Counter-Strike. I scrapped Zone Alarm and use the XP firewall.

XP crashes randomly in Windows Explore about 3 times a week, due to problems with my NVIDIA driver, according to XP. I can't get rid of that.

I have some wierd problems with Couter-Strike sprite errors during map changes in XP, but this also happened in Windows 98. Probably a problem with my K7S5A, but I'm not sure.

Overall, now that I have had XP up and running for two weeks or so, I would say it is a little more stable than 98, but not by much.

Later,

 

[chaswood]

A few complaints with XP.

1) I get a "new updates" pop-up almost daily with compatability updates, some of which require a reboot. Can't Microsoft consolidate these and make them less frequent?
2) Office XP crashes every few days and wants to send an error report to Microsoft. I usually do but get no response or feedback from MS.
3) I get a low disk space notification which goes away after reboot (I have 4.5gb of free space on a 10gb partition). You can see my post about "Win XP low disk space weirdness" for more on this.

I have used NT 3.51, NT4, Win2k, and all the Win9x variants. I have to vote for Win2k as the favorite. I have it on my other 2 systems and have zero issues.

 

[TheWart]

solid as a rock over here. chaswood you can turn off the "updates" annoyance by righ clicking my computer->automatic updates->and then turn off automatic updating and even turn off the popup.

 

[RagingGuardian]

IE6 crashes on the regular for me and sometimes my task bar becomes inactive. I can activate all my desktop icons but I can't access my start menu or taskbar.

IMHO Win2K was more stable because this never happened to me, as a matter of fact Win2K has never crashed for me and I was rebooting once every few weeks while I reboot everyday with XP.

 

[chaswood]

<< solid as a rock over here. chaswood you can turn off the "updates" annoyance by righ clicking my computer->automatic updates->and then turn off automatic updating and even turn off the popup. >>



Thanks, I never thought to look for it. I see no reason for daily updates when things are working.