Windows XP - the truth?

[Mikeus Caesar]

Having reinstalled Windows XP 5 times onto my system since mid-September (just yesterday being most recent), i have to ask, is Microsoft causing all this suffering on purpose?

Are they trying to get as many people to suffer as possible, until all their suffering somehow powers some sort of mind ray, one so powerful it converts Mac users and even Linux users to Windows?

Or is the damn thing made out of the souls of small children, because small children are very good at losing things, and so is Window XP. Just today it lost hal.dll, an important system 32 file. How the hell did it do that!? How can one of the (supposedly) greatest OS's yet be losing it's own marbles!? Maybe it realised just how crummy it really is, and is trying to commit suicide.

Hell, i find it ironic that while you're setting it up, it says it's the most secure Windoze yet, because it prevents you from deleting essential files. Secure maybe, and most definately helpful, because now you don't have to move the mouse around a bit to delete them, XP does it for you!

Or maybe XP doesn't like me because of all the anti Micro$oft material on my PC.

And Internet Explorer isn't much better. Whenever it's crashing because i opened two windows in quick sucession, it's....erm....well, crashing. I would use Firefox, but alot of my favourite websites won't take anything other IE.

Oh well. No skin off my nose. If XP breaks again, i swear, i'm going to incur Uncle Bill's worst nightmare and install Linux on my PC.

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[Ianofsmeg16]

You want the long or short answer?

Long Answer

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Yes

Short answer

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Y

[Viking]

I`ve never had to reinstall XP.

Long live microsoft and it`s wannabe monopoly.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Never had any problems with it.

For the websites that only work in IE, I use firefox with the "right-click and select 'view web page in IE'" extension. I also d/l a fix that makes a lot more of the embedded windows media player files work.

[Sardo]

I lurvs my XP - never had to re-install it or anything. That used to be quite different back when there was Win98SE. I've had a lot of grief with that. But maybe that was simply because the computers themselves were... aging.

I also use Firefox - especially with IE having a silly purple Packard Bell skin on this computer. I don't know how I ever got along before tabbed browsing.




Or maybe Bill Gates has done a very efficient job brainwashing me.

[Ice]

I use Windows XP Professional and I haven't had a problem with it yet.

[Quietus]

Never had any problems with it.

For the websites that only work in IE, I use firefox with the "right-click and select 'view web page in IE'" extension. I also d/l a fix that makes a lot more of the embedded windows media player files work.

Microsoft made the 6.4 Windows Media Player default for Firefox even though you have WMP 9 or 10. I had to download a registry file to correct it as well.

@Mikeus: Try Firefox 1.5.

[aw89]

Never had any problems with it.

For the websites that only work in IE, I use firefox with the "right-click and select 'view web page in IE'" extension. I also d/l a fix that makes a lot more of the embedded windows media player files work.

Link please?

Edit: nevermind