Fair enough. Please post your hands-on experiences.
Has the look and feel changed any? Any noticable changes?
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Fair enough. Please post your hands-on experiences.
Has the look and feel changed any? Any noticable changes?
For anyone looking to go the "less than legal route" that avoids activation altogether, check out Morpheus and look for the copy XP Corporate Edition that's floating around out there. Not that I would ever do such a thing. Stealing from M$ is bad!
My hands on experiences have been good so far. Noticable changes - Themes are front and center... I hated the one they start you off with, so I reverted to the "Classic". The task bar has some new features...you can run recent documents you've edited with one mouseclick as opposed to opening the app and loading the file. The system tray hides icons that haven't been used after a certain amount of time passes. You get the WinNT/2000 Task manager, with some extra stuff thrown in. Windows Explorer has a bunch of new stuff... Inline thumbnails are better than WinME, and you can get inline video from your camcorder if you have one hooked up (works great.) You don't need seperate CD burning software, WinXP does it for you and it seems to work well (have burned 2 CDs with no problem.)Quote:
Originally posted by [AK]Bribo
Fair enough. Please post your hands-on experiences.
Has the look and feel changed any? Any noticable changes?
Windows explorer also has a lot of tie-ins to the net... you can replace the folder panel with a media browser.... go out to the net and watch video, purchase music, or whatever.
Dunno how much I'll use it, but it's interesting.
There's an option to hide all or some icons on your desktop, or to periodically clean up icons on your desktop.
Windows Media player and Internet Explorer are both new versions, and so far they seem to work well. Haven't had the time to explore much of their features yet.
Whenever something bombs out, you have an option to send in a bug report to Microsoft. You can do it anonymously or not, it's up to you. Simple as hitting a "send" button.
More as I discover it.
Some reading material for those considering the jump:
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupda...819766,00.html
Squid - what did you end up doing with Norton 2001? Did you simply uninstall/reinstall it? Or did you need to get a specific WinXP version?
Also, did you need to get the new Detonator XP drivers for your vid card? How about sound drivers?
Thanks,