Here are a few oddities I've noticed since I installed a fresh copy of XP/home/sp1 on a new HD.
Hardware:
-Asus A7V with latest BIOS (1011)
-1 Gig Athlon processor
-512 Mb Mushkin PC133 SDRAM
After installing the FAX component, logging off a user account becomes a 95+ second wait for the blue logging off screen to appear. And then it may hang there, or not. Or may even go to a black screen with a white underscore in the top left corner. Reset to fix. sigh. Fast switching between users appears to be unaffected.
If I uninstall FAX, the normal time to logoff returns. Sometimes I have to manually shut down explorer to initiate the logoff.. or wait for the windows countdown timer to do it for me.
Occasionally, I see a narrow black vertical line that starts at the bottom of the screen about 4 inches from the left that runs up 6 or 7 inches vertically. Nothing covers it up. It's always in the forefront. Although just a line, it is still annoying. I've seen it pop up on different user accounts.. and on 2 separate installs of XP on this PC. Never saw it on W2k/sp3.
I have one account that OE will not initiate unless the account is an administrator. I've deleted the account, rebooted the PC and recreated the account but continue to get the same error msg every time (the first pop-up msg tells me my HD is full or out of space, the second pop-up says MSOE.dll will not intiate). I retained the admin account and set up 4 other accounts as limited access. All work under limited access except for one. My wife's! So the easy fix is to make her account an admin as well. It works.. but this is not clean yet.
Question: is it time for a new subsystem (mobo and processor)? Or is XP just that flaky?
I like being able to connect my digicam to XP and being able to get my pics without other soft/hardware. OTOH, W2k/sp3 seemed a bit more stable (until I blew it up loading digicam software!)
And those darn pop-up balloons are just annoying the heck outta me! (yeah, I know.. there's a registry hack to fix this).
Anyone else seen any of the above?
Hardware:
-Asus A7V with latest BIOS (1011)
-1 Gig Athlon processor
-512 Mb Mushkin PC133 SDRAM
After installing the FAX component, logging off a user account becomes a 95+ second wait for the blue logging off screen to appear. And then it may hang there, or not. Or may even go to a black screen with a white underscore in the top left corner. Reset to fix. sigh. Fast switching between users appears to be unaffected.
If I uninstall FAX, the normal time to logoff returns. Sometimes I have to manually shut down explorer to initiate the logoff.. or wait for the windows countdown timer to do it for me.
Occasionally, I see a narrow black vertical line that starts at the bottom of the screen about 4 inches from the left that runs up 6 or 7 inches vertically. Nothing covers it up. It's always in the forefront. Although just a line, it is still annoying. I've seen it pop up on different user accounts.. and on 2 separate installs of XP on this PC. Never saw it on W2k/sp3.
I have one account that OE will not initiate unless the account is an administrator. I've deleted the account, rebooted the PC and recreated the account but continue to get the same error msg every time (the first pop-up msg tells me my HD is full or out of space, the second pop-up says MSOE.dll will not intiate). I retained the admin account and set up 4 other accounts as limited access. All work under limited access except for one. My wife's! So the easy fix is to make her account an admin as well. It works.. but this is not clean yet.
Question: is it time for a new subsystem (mobo and processor)? Or is XP just that flaky?
I like being able to connect my digicam to XP and being able to get my pics without other soft/hardware. OTOH, W2k/sp3 seemed a bit more stable (until I blew it up loading digicam software!)
And those darn pop-up balloons are just annoying the heck outta me! (yeah, I know.. there's a registry hack to fix this).
Anyone else seen any of the above?
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