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aconti · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 2:08 pm Post subject: XP home is a worry

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I hope that no-one has chosen to buy this. It's less network friendly than the Win 9x platform.

It reminds me of the 486 sx and dx chips. (486sx chips were 486dx chips that had a part of the chip crippled ! They sold for different prices.) This thankfully stopped with the release of the pentium chips.

With more and more home networks this is a really bad idea.

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-AC

Chris Jackson · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:00 pm Post subject:

Out of curiosity, what are you trying to do and being unable to achieve? One of the major design goals was to simplify home networking. Since it's a home edition, you can't join a domain or a Netware network, which seems logical to me. They then wrap up some of the things which were particularly complicated, and attempt to make them seamless for the home user who isn't accustomed to setting up ACLs. For those who need the granularity of control, Pro is available, but I have set up many a home network for friends and colleagues using Home, and I haven't seen a problem.

aconti · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 1:35 pm Post subject:

I was pointing out that although MS acknowledges that homes are becoming more connected. They took a step back in networking with XP Home.

Caveat Emptor

-AC

David Pierron · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 3:00 pm Post subject:

I myself haven't gone past 2000, but I had a guy over here that said that they got XP Professional because XP Home wasn't able to do what he wanted on his home's wireless network ... With XP Professional he just plugged in the wireless card into his laptop, and he was up and running ...

I'm not wireless either

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Aaron Reeves · Newcomer Joined: 12 May 2003 Posts: 6 Location: NJ

2000 pro is okay.. XP sucks
end of story!

even Mac stept back with the new ver.

David Pierron · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2003 5:24 pm Post subject:

I have been running a couple XP boxes .. I would have to say only one I have seriously been using .. The first one was just to install XP and check it out, then I upgraded my Win2K laptop to XP ... Using the "Clear Type" option on the laptop has made it attractive as well ... I haven't noticed any real performance issues, but there are a couple things that have changed with XP and some of them are neat, and some of them are annoying ... Also, some drivers weren't XP compatible, and I haven't found the drivers for my particular laptop, but it hasn't seriously affected me ... Even some of the drivers that XP deemed necessary weren't, so I was under a misconception that some things wouldn't work ... Also, a driver for these buttons that are on the laptop failed, but I never used those buttons anyway ...

The machine that I did a fresh install on behaved a little strange though ... The HD light would blink what seemed like every second no matter how long the box sat there idle ... With screen blanked, etc ... I have no idea why it's doing this ...

On the minus, it took so long to install, both the clean install and the upgrade on the laptop .. but, all in all, it seems to be performing well as I have it running 24/7 ...

Networking issues were a little confusing joining the new box to the W2K Native AD ... but the upgraded machine took all the W2K settings and it worked right off ...
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Ian Shepard · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 9:42 am Post subject: