How is your Windows XP stability?

[freefalle6]

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.

 

[Mem]

No problems here with XP Pro,I just wish more drivers would be XP certified but I know that will happen in the future.

 

[Hulk]

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.

 

[AGodspeed]

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

 

[BD231]

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.