You gotta love XP :D

[bigbadnewill]

I'm not a MSoft hater, but since i installed in today using boot camp i must have had to install updates about 6 times, each needing a restart. Then finally I shut down for the night and this...

To be fair, they must have been small, it only took about 1o minutes...but 85??

It seems that as soon as you install one update it subsequently requires the installing of another two.

Anyhow, it's not that bad, i was just shocked that i needed quite so many updates!

 

[sushi]

Anyhow, it's not that bad, i was just shocked that i needed quite so many updates!

Quite a few these days.

Or how about Norton AV update. Huge in just a short time.

 

[Sesshi]

The number of updates from standard CDs / images is getting pretty ridiculous.

I unpacked a few new machines for my lab not so long ago, the install of which requires XP and an older version of Office, and I stared in horror as it told me it needed 800Mb's worth of updates.

Service Pack 3 should fix that problem especially as CD's come out with it on... but for me, it's just another reason not to bother with a superceded OS and get with Vista. Of course, with some critical software which hasn't been updated you sometimes don't get the choice.

 

[MRU]

^ When is service pack 3 due ? Seems to be taking forever ....

 

[Sesshi]

I think it's in a month or so. As far as I know there are no new features, just a clumping of all the intervening updates. I don't care anymore as I've gone through the updates already and they were the last XP machines I'll be buying

 

[valdore]

Okay, I always used to say that I am emphatically NOT a MSFT Windows hater/Apple fanboy, but recently I dusted the cobwebs off an old XP laptop PC of mine that I'm giving to my dad. Dealing with it really made me realize how much I like OS X. Windows is just frustrating to deal with and work with.

 

[MRU]

Windows is just frustrating to deal with and work with.

Yeah I'm a sole mac user myself, but I do get a lot of XP computers to fix so I have to try and keep up with windows even though I hate using it.

Thanks for that info Sesshi

 

[iMpathetic]

Okay, I always used to say that I am emphatically NOT a MSFT Windows hater/Apple fanboy, but recently I dusted the cobwebs off an old XP laptop PC of mine that I'm giving to my dad. Dealing with it really made me realize how much I like OS X. Windows is just frustrating to deal with and work with.

Agreed. I just completed my saga of using only Windows for a month to see just how much Apple was deserving of my adoration. Verdict: Very deserving.

The most frustrating experience was getting this Toshiba laptop out the door to trade, plus my Thinkpad and $140, for my BlackBook. It was running XP Home on 256MB RAM, with a 1.6GHz mobile Pentium 4. Not only that, but when it was shipped to me, it had been IN HIBERNATION SINCE 2004. I kid you not. Ugh. That was a trip. It took 4 hours to defragment the hard drive enough so that I could minimize a window within 10 seconds of clicking the little button.

 

[ayeying]

SP3 makes my little 2.5GB xp partition into 6GB.

 

[cohibadad]

SP3 makes my little 2.5GB xp partition into 6GB.

really? how in the world can it take that much space? ugh. I bet it requires WGA doesn't it. I don't click on that thing out of principle but I guess I will just to see SP3.