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Windows XP - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways....

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Windows XP - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways....

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Well, it's that time again, the magical season of reformatting that seems to have become all the more frequent since I moved to XP. It seems that for every 5 times I install it, one installation will be good, the others will disagree with programs I use, crash at random, or simply be full of weird glitches. I would make the move back to 2K, but XP has a lot of new stuff that I've got used to having, so I guess I'll just have to deal with it, hopefully this install will go right first time (current's been on about 4 weeks, and I've been putting up with strange crashes and glitches such as explorer's treeview not showing icons next to any of the nodes). Wish me luck...

AJC
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well, "smooth". I get the occasional "Windows has run out of resources" and Explorer behaves way below par (locks up and crashes from time to time). But hell, as long as it boots fast, I'm happy.
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ME actually NEVER 'acts up'...it was always intended to be as screwy as it is....a resounding success, I'd say...
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
starone, just remember "format" and "fdisk" are your friends

it sounds like that machine needs a slightly more stern approach. personally i would just backup the data, fdisk both drives, and then install XP on its own. fairly quick and painless once you have done the fdisk stage.

is this why you have been so mysteriously absent of late?
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well, between installing XP and trying to get this skin done and family matters, been pretty tied up. Hubby has really gotten involved in all this too. It's gotten to where he gets me up and says, "You are wasting valuable skinning time." When I started doing this he remarked "why are you wasting your time?" Go figure.

I'm sure he will be interested in the fdisk method. I think he is just about to throw ME away. Only thing is I would really like to keep it just to be able to bring my skins up on ME to see how they look there in addition to XP. Somehow feel hopelessly lost not being able to look at XP and ME.