Pete,Aug 9 2005, 04:15 PM Wrote:Given that it's 2005, I'm going to swallow the bullet and use XP and hope that I can reclaim most of the bloat. I don't see any advantage to Pro for a gaming machine (most of he Pro features I'd just turn off).
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I've just recently upgraded, and opposite to my normal results, this time the hardware has been seamless, but XP2 is giving me major headaches. It is a pure P.O.S. Stuff creashes occasionally (incl. I.E. / Mozilla / Morrowind) the mouse occasionally acts spastic. It comes with all sorts of daft stuff turned on by default, doesn't have a show desktop icon, comes with built-in firewall (security manager) that I haven't yet managed to remove. Services can only be altered by runnning a cmd line, not available on default menu. etc. etc. Pity I didn't stick with 98 :/
--Edit: New computer old spelling mistakes.