Microsoft says there will be a 3rd service pack for Win XP

[Sonic 296]

Microsoft has officially confirmed that there will be a third service pack for the current client version of the Windows OS, Windows XP.

 

The company declined to release further details, but says that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) will be available after the shipment of Windows Vista, the next version of the client OS. Visa is scheduled to be available at the end of 2006.

 

more here http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/7...C25709200776756

[Guest Rabbit]

Great. Right when I'm about to get rid of windows.

[Luk3us 63]

Meh... XP by itself works fine for me.. XP service pack 2 didn't really do anything to my "computing experience"...

 

As long as they send me it on CD like SP2 then I won't mind that much.

[Thierry 0]

XP works fine for me too

[Tree 0]

XP works fine, but goes so slow and eats up so much processing power. My linux box is on an old HP Vectra 550 with a Pentium 3 in it, and it goes twice as fast.

[Guest MadBadger]

i tend to shut explorer down if im going to be playing online for along time...

[Saracen 16]

In XP, exlplorer is part of the windows kernal, you shut that down, you lose all of windows apart from it's basic functions... nice idea, although it does require a reset.. at least on my PC anyhow.

 

At least when Explorer crashes, it resets and restarts. previous versions of windows meant only one thing... the blue screen of death..

 

Transferring to XP was one of the worst decisions I've ever made for an operating system. I may have XP professional, but I cannot really see much difference over home, it gives you a bit more freedom, but not much.

 

Despite what alot of people think, and their concerns... Windows ME was my favourite.. closely followed by Windows 98SE.... XP sucks, period!

[Doctor Destiny 41]

You kidding? I crash Explorer on 98 all the time and rarely get a blue screen.

[Guest MadBadger]

Ctrl, Alt and Delete, End Explorer (gota have ur game running already in background) then when u need explorer again Ctrl, Alt and Delete, and new task and open explorer...... all thou since i got broadband i aint needed to do it....

 

DEATH TO BILL GATES

 

dunno but i hate windows

[Luk3us 63]

XP sucks, period!

 

How can you say that? XP is by far the most stable version of windows... Besides 3.0 I think...

[Thierry 0]

2000 beats XP, but XP is the latest version there is

If explorer crashes, I do crtl+alt+del to get the screen where you can lock your comp, open task manager.

If you then open task manages, and click on Run Process and fill in explorer.exe, it should work fine, works for me

[Luk3us 63]

I don't like ME so I don't count it.

[Thierry 0]

Meh, whats the diff between it and 98SE

[chickendippers 1]

*shrugs* Dunno know what you guys do with ur computers, but all my computers Win95, 98SE and XP Home work perfectly.

[Luk3us 63]

Pff.. Windows 98 was a nightmare for me.

 

Everytime I tried to type up an essay or something after like the first or second page everything would crash...

 

I had some real nice "conversations" with my PC back then...

 

XP on the other hand has only ever crashed twice, both times my fault though. So I wouldn't count them as proper crashses.

[TheBlackOut 7]

In XP, exlplorer is part of the windows kernal, you shut that down, you lose all of windows apart from it's basic functions... nice idea, although it does require a reset.. at least on my PC anyhow.

 

At least when Explorer crashes, it resets and restarts. previous versions of windows meant only one thing... the blue screen of death..

 

Transferring to XP was one of the worst decisions I've ever made for an operating system. I may have XP professional, but I cannot really see much difference over home, it gives you a bit more freedom, but not much.

 

Despite what alot of people think, and their concerns... Windows ME was my favourite.. closely followed by Windows 98SE.... XP sucks, period!

 

Excuse me?! Did I just hear you say Windows ME was your favorite? *shoots myself*

 

My Windows ME crashed like every 10 weeks, it couldn't handle games that well, and other craps. How can you like Windows ME? PS: Windows ME was like a beta to XP.

[Sonic 296]

*shrugs* Dunno know what you guys do with ur computers, but all my computers Win95, 98SE and XP Home work perfectly.

Same for me chickendippers, I have used all the major Windows versions over the years (except for Win2k), never had crashing problems. Any problems that I've had have been minor and I manage to solve them. Windows XP is stable for me, it never crashes, never gives me any problems. All my games run fine, apps to.

[chickendippers 1]

Glad I'm not the only one. Any problems I've had have been of my own creation