Win XP

ast3r3xast3r3x
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
i'm coming to you now from winXp because ME crashed ever 3 min...i'll probably be updating you on things as it goes on...besides being less ugly, it doesn't seem to crash as much.



everything is GIANT now though, 1152x864 and still too much screen space is taken up by the task bar and window menu bars!

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  • Reply 1 of 12
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    I thought everyone knew how bad ME was?
  • Reply 2 of 12
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    [quote]Originally posted by EmAn:

    <strong>I thought everyone knew how bad ME was?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    eman, ur not that bad. just not too good with grammer. "...how bad I was?"
  • Reply 3 of 12
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by thuh Freak:

    <strong>



    eman, ur not that bad. just not too good with grammer. "...how bad I was?"</strong><hr></blockquote>

    Kinda funny...



  • Reply 4 of 12
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    Win XP may have lotsa security issues, but it is generally quite stable and doesn't crash easily. I dun like to say this, but my Mac has crashed more times than my XP desktop.....
  • Reply 5 of 12
    doctorgonzodoctorgonzo Posts: 529member
    [quote]everything is GIANT now though, 1152x864 and still too much screen space is taken up by the task bar and window menu bars!<hr></blockquote>



    Change the theme.
  • Reply 6 of 12
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    Change the theme and resize the window elements like the title bar, border, etc. With the XP theme, you want to keep the title bar an odd pixel width, otherwise widgets become off-centered.
  • Reply 7 of 12
    cybermonkeycybermonkey Posts: 604member
    Xp doesnt crash as much than previus versions because it uses the NTFS file system, but give it time and things will become very unstable.

    The more you install and uninstall the worse it gets!
  • Reply 8 of 12
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    well than i'm glad i'm installing lots of things, and unintalling them after i dont like them





    i got it to crash last night but that is just because i didn't update to service pack 1 so i still had that memory leak that caused the crash i think
  • Reply 9 of 12
    artman @_@artman @[email protected] Posts: 2,546member
    [quote]Originally posted by ast3r3x:

    <strong>... but that is just because i didn't update to service pack 1 so i still had that memory leak that caused the crash i think</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Service pack of many more to come I'd believe...most Windows OS's have a shelf life of 6 months...then it's reformat and re-install...that easy...uh...no...waittaminnit...forget it... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 10 of 12
    sledgehammersledgehammer Posts: 505member
    [quote]Originally posted by stunned:

    <strong>Win XP may have lotsa security issues, but it is generally quite stable and doesn't crash easily. I dun like to say this, but my Mac has crashed more times than my XP desktop.....</strong><hr></blockquote>



    What Mac OS are you running? Because any computer would be hard pressed to crash less than my computer running 10.x. Since I switched up to X from 9 almost exactly a year ago, I think I could count the kernel panics I've had on one hand. Since installing Jaguar back in August (or spetember, or whenever it was) I've had exactly 1, and my computer is on all the time. Literally 24/7, often for several weeks at a time. I can't speak quite so highly for the stability of 9, but X is rock solid.
  • Reply 11 of 12
    proud ibook owner 2k2proud ibook owner 2k2 Posts: 1,011member
    0_O.... im now on an XP machine here at school... THis is the only lab here with PCs... Its decent.. but im gonna be REAL happy to get home to my BEAUTIFUL iBook. ^_^
  • Reply 12 of 12
    aesiraesir Posts: 8member
    [quote]Originally posted by ast3r3x:



    everything is GIANT now though, 1152x864 and still too much screen space is taken up by the task bar and window menu bars! <hr></blockquote>





    I use WinXP quite a bit and there's a fair bit you can do about that.



    1. Right click the window menu bar and uncheck "Lock the toolbars". Now you can drag them around, merging 2 bars into one and all that.



    2. Right click the window menu bar again and click "customize" - from there you can select text options, icon sizes and what icons you want (and what you want to remove) on your bar.



    3. I personally like to keep the taskbar on the left-hand side of the screen and set to "auto-hide" (again right click the TB and select properties)



    4. After you arrange one folder to the way you like it, go under the Tools menu and select "Folder Options", select the View tab and click "Apply to all folders".



    5. You can also Right-click on the desktop and select Properties -&gt; Appearance Tab -&gt; Advanced and set sizes for everything (titlebars, fonts, widgets, spacing, etc.), lots of customization there.





    - Aesir.
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