XP SP1 fix list..

[Trotterwatch]

I seen my first BSOD (Stop error)with an NT line of OS's yesterday. It was to do with one of the old NT4 machines in work, and yep the error message was more descriptive.

An impressive aspect was that there seemed to be options for recovery present at the bottom of the screen, though whether or not these would have worked is something I do not know.

 

[AlphaWolf]

I just tested SP1 on my rarely used system (athlon 900, 512mb ram, gf2 ultra, 60g HDD) and from what I can tell it sucks. The explorer shell now starts slower (maybe aston can fix that), nothing works better at all (in fact, everything now starts slower), and in the add/remove windows components, all of the middleware can be only be "hidden", not removed, which is realy retarded IMO. What the hell is the point in that? we were already able to do that before anyways, they should allow you to remove it, if there are any potential problems/compatibility issues, warn the user that they are on their own, and allow the removal to proceed. If the nonbeta is as bad as this, I say screw SP1. lain2:

/me is pissed about having to pay the microsoft tax when he bought his laptop.

 

[Olger901]

Ok I tried Win XP SP1 at my work. (With a legal version of WinXP) and I must agree with Alphawolf it sucks. Even the new msn Colours Suck (I personally hate the XP look I changed it into the regular windows look) btw It also sometimes crashes at my school since I installed Windows XP SP1 and I uninstalled it and now my pc at school works like a charm again :happy:

 

[AlphaWolf]

<rant>
You know, the biggest thing that pissed me off about XP was that it wanted me to call in and update the keys when I added more memory. (I heard it isn't supposed to do that with minor changes, but I guess OEM versions are pickier?). I wonder what microsoft intends to do with their big list of XP users specific system specs, names and addresses? Good thing I was able to opt out of that thanks to devilsown, and dell only has my old fort knox shipping address
</rant>

 

[Slougi]

Heh, install litestep and opera on xp and use them instead of the standard windows shell and ie, and it starts working

 

[thine_impalor]

OEM..

(I heard it isn't supposed to do that with minor changes, but I guess OEM versions are pickier?).

hmmm.....a friend of mine who has XP told me to get the OEM version because it is LESS pickier!?

 

[AlphaWolf]

Heh, install litestep and opera on xp and use them instead of the standard windows shell and ie, and it starts working

WHAT?! How the hell do you do that? I don't use either of them anyways (I use aston and mozilla). That would be cool to unload IE from memory.

(I heard it isn't supposed to do that with minor changes, but I guess OEM versions are pickier?).

hmmm.....a friend of mine who has XP told me to get the OEM version because it is LESS pickier!?

Fuck I dunno, all I know is that it bitched when I added memory. My wild guess at the time is that microsoft wants the manufacturer to get paid to do the upgrade rather than the consumer do it themselves, that way MS can try to collect royalties or something...but even if that was the case, dell encourages the consumer to do their own minor upgrades, unlike most MFRs.

 

[Romboy]

Is there a hax0r to fix that problem somewhere?

 

[thine_impalor]

btw.....

i found THIS on a website.....what dyu guys make of it?
http://inquirerinside.com/?article=825
i saw this on some other websites as well and my friend(OEM Version XP) says he CAN upgrade hardware without having to reactivate......altho' he never tried