Windows XP - the truth?

[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.

[LeftEyeNine]

XP SP2 is the best Windows experience I've ever got. It really rarely goes "blue" if you keep your registry clean.

[Husar]

Yes, no problems with XP SP2. I reinstall on purpose sometimes if I feel there is too much old, non-deleted junk I don´t want to search for. But that´s just for me to feel better.

[Lemur]

You can view more with Firefox than you know, as another poster pointed out. IE is a huge freakin' security hole, and you should use it sparingly.

XP SP2 all by itself is pretty stable. The best way to bring it crashing down is to use IE a lot, or, to be honest, any Microsoft software that isn't XP SP2. Microsoft Office can bring on the blue screen of death pretty easily.

Just avoid using MS products on the MS platform, and your mileage should improve dramatically.

[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