Win XP PRO...Anyone Else Got it?

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My thoughts so far....I upgraded from Me to XP...so i'm loving the WDM drivers...XP has other lil neat features haven't used it enuff to see how much more stable it is then ME...

One Question:
Is it better to have NTFS or Fat32 or does it it matter cuz me upgrading from ME i have fat32
 
NTFS would be better.

Buying Windows 2000 would have been even better - the leash has been slipped around your neck and will soon be tightened and Microsoft will squeeze your hard earned savings out of your pockets from here on...

There is no difference between Windows 2000 and XP except for the cheesy Luna user interface.

There are numerous other reasons why you should have stuck with Windows 2000:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20011023/tc/win_xp_software_built_to_last__1.html

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/200...sn_t_cut_it_in_the_security_department_1.html

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20011022/tc/meet_the_dark_side_of_windows_xp_1.html
 
I have WinXP Pro...

Haven't Loaded it yet, still cleaning up my hard drives and installing a couple of new pieces of hardware.

I bought the full version, didn't want to upgrade my win 98 se.
Wanted to start fresh.

Can't wait to use WDM.
I'll post back in a couple of days.

Good luck, A1MixMan
 
Question for you guys...

Why XP Pro?? What features/benefits are in pro that aren't in the home edition? What are you getting for the extra $100?
 
putting Sonar on my XP Pro workstation right now, I will report back tonight as well.
 
dachay2tnr said:
Question for you guys...

Why XP Pro?? What features/benefits are in pro that aren't in the home edition? What are you getting for the extra $100?
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Multiprocessor support for one. Its quite silly really - that has been a standard feature of any NT based OS., but not for XP Home (which is based on NT)

Still, I'll be sticking with Windows 2000 for the time being. Don't need a buggy new OS, my computer getting hacked into or giving up my first born to Microsoft and loose all my privacy because their software controls my PC without my permission (read the Media Player license agreement in XP)
 
up and running

I have Sonar 1.3 up and running smoothly on WinXP pro.

Life is much better with WDM drivers and dual-proc capability. I'm testing on a soundblaster Live and latency is pretty low even though I'm not running the most powerful system (dual p3 600Mhz). Haven't pushed it to extremes yet or tried softsynths (never had 'em installed on my Win98 system) so I'll drop another update when I have that all scoped out.
 
i couldn't upgrade from ME to 2000 i would haveta format everything which i didn't want to do, i'm pleasantly surprised so far
 
Teacher said:
i couldn't upgrade from ME to 2000 i would haveta format everything which i didn't want to do, i'm pleasantly surprised so far
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Apparently, you weren't doing something right. That was how I first installed Windows 2000.

Microsoft's upgrade scemes have never worked in the past, 3.1->95, 95->95osr2, 95osr2->98, 98->98SE, SE->ME.

It has always been better to do a clean install to avoid problems down the road. It is GUARANTEED that their will be DLL library conflicts, etc...

You have always been able to do a clean install with Upgrade versions of the OS. All that is needed is a boot disk with the OS and the CD-ROM drivers. At a certain point, Windows will ask for the CD/disk of a qualified MS operating system. That is why I keep my old Windows 95osr2 disk handy.

I do a fresh install every time and restore my backed up data.

If you are using Windows for professional work, there is no excuse to not have a backup of your critical data anyways. I back up all my important files onto a CD-RW every month. At the price of $79 nowadays, there is no excuse to not buy a recordable/rewritable CD drive.
 
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That is why I keep my old Windows 95osr2 disk handy.
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Thought I read that '95 doesn't qualify for the XP upgrade. Only '98 forward.
 
NTFS vs FAT32

Actually i have heard that its much better to use FAT32 over NTFS. Its about cluster transfering and stuff but i dont really remember all of the details. But i heard for video and audio to use FAT32 over NTFS.

Darnold
 
huh?

negative, NTFS is superior in many ways as a file system. You must have NTFS confused with FAT16, read about NTFS vs. FAT32 at this link:

http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8294


Here's a good caveat for WinXP.... modems.

Freakin XP hates modems, and of about 1000 different types on the market XP supports about a dozen.

I've tried 3 different modems now and nogo, 2 of them just blue screen XP when installing the drivers. (!) Ugh... one day they'll offer cable or dsl in my neighboorhood.

I love it when MS obsoletes technology just because they were too rushed to test modems with their new OS.
 
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To XP or not to XP that is the question

Dear all,
Great thread and very interesting, considering my current dilemma.
What I am concerned about is stability and compatibility.
Current setup:
Athlon 1gig
768 Mb sd ram
40 gig HD
SB Live Platinum (Live Drive)
Cakewalk Pro 9 with about four million plugins. (Slight exaggeration but only slight)

Extras I’m adding today:
80 gig HD
SB Audigy Platinum (Live Drive) (Just had to have the 1394)

Operating Systems I have:
Win ME (Current setup)
Win 2000 pro (Option)
Win XP pro (Option)

As you can see there are various possibilities, the idea being to make the new drive just for audio and video (hence the 1394). The existing drive running on ME works OK and I intend to keep that “as is” for general office stuff. So what would you recommend for the new drive? I am leaning towards 2000 pro. It’s just been out there longer and the pre install report from XP raises a lot of issues already mentioned in this thread. (Modem in particular) What do you think guys?

Alan
 
I was unable to install XP on a Win98 machine because of blocks with several 98 drivers. I installed 2000 on the machine, then upgrade to XP as an experiment, and it worked fine. From that I would say XP is more compatible with 2000 drivers. Makes sense, considering it's based more on 2000/NT and not '9x.

I think XP is fine for audio, but so is 2000. Both are better than '9x or NT from what I've seen. Some people will trash XP just because it's new, but so far it's been great everywhere I've installed it. I replaced 2000 advanced server with XP pro on a machine I leave running constantly, and it's been over a month with no problems thus far. I had some issues with 2000 on that machine where it would run out of memory and it even crashed a couple times, so I wouldn't say 2000 is always superior to XP in terms of being rock solid.
 
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