[Fyron]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:
I disagree there. I have never had an XP Pro machine lock up and give me the BSOD, or any other form of crashing. With W2K I had it happen at least every couple months if not more, and this was with all the latest drivers and not running any programs that would cause such an event.

You were unlucky then. I have had XP crash more times than 2000... Also, the BSOD does NOT appear in XP, because they designed the OS to do a reset instead of display the error screen, as a crappy marketing ploy. I believe there is a way to fix this crappy behavior so that you can know what the cause of the crash was, but it is a pain...

Originally posted by JayBdey:
What areas can you not change back to normal on XP? You can change most everything in XP, some things are not easy to change, but they still can be changed.

I don't recall all of them, but there are a lot of things that require hacking the OS to change, such as the loading screens, the logging off screens, the user control panel screens, and some others that I do not recall... the "Classic" interface only goes so far...

I agree, currently i'm using a program called Windowsblinds and have a very nice gold Lord of the Ringstheme on xp, very pretty

You can use such things on win 2000 as well... as well as the explorer shell replacements Will mentioned.

[ May 17, 2004, 17:41: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]