Does SEIV run on XP????

[Renegade 13]

XP has never restarted on me instead of giving me the BSOD. Also, I'd never thought about it, but I've never seen the BSOD at all in XP. Personally, I don't think the UI is so bad, but then again, I'm not a programmer, or have a massive knowledge of computers, so....that might have something to do with it.

[JayBdey]

Imperator, an XP programmer could look at some of those error Messages and scratch his head in confusion, they don't help anyone. Rebooting is better. And I've never heard anyone 'market' that setting of XP.

Login screens are easily changed, boot up screens are easily changed, and several screens in XP have no real equivalent in 2000 so how else would they look? You have no argument there.

[Fyron]

Hacking the operating system or shelling out money to leech companies is not what I would qualify as "easily changed".

All of the screens I referenced _do_ have a 2000 equivalent... what new screens are you refering to, exactly? Other than the "fast user switching" interface, which could very easily have been made to look like the "classic" windows interface when using it, but was not, what screens are you refering to exactly?

About the BSOD and crashing... I never said that all error Messages were intrinsically helpful. But, you can write it down and look on the net to see if there is something you can do to prevent that crash in the future. No info at all is no good. And yes, not showing the BSOD was a marketing ploy, part of the stability of XP. BSOD was something windows critics often complained of, so they hid it. Marketing ploys are not always things directly advertised... marketing is far more complex than just bluntly claiming things.

I indeed have an argument, which you have failed to inhibit in any way.

[Mephisto]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I indeed have an argument, which you have failed to inhibit in any way.

Oh no! Stop right there everyone! This will not become another "them against IF" thread. Some people like XP, others don't, we will all live with it, ok?

[dogscoff]

I remember a time when vehement "my OS is better than yours" squabbles were actually about two different OSes from different manufacturers (Windows Vs Mac (back when Mac wasn't oiwned by MS), windows vs unix, Amiga vs PC, Amiga vs atari, C64 vs Speccy etc).

What has the world come to when all we have left to argue about is which Version of bloody Microsoft's bloated Orwellian crappy excuse for an operating system is marginally preferable to which other?

Maybe I should borrow the Time-travelling gearbox so I can go live perpetually in some other decade.

[kerensky]

Whoa!!!! This thread took off since Last time I checked on it. YOu guys have done away with most of my fears of switching to XP. Most of the fears originated from teh upgradingmof the video computer at my church. We started with XP home, then the next level (whatever it was), to finally end up with a new computer and XP pro.
I am a little iffy about converting because I run 2000 pro and like it. However, there are several games that don't work with it, like the Sims (hopefully you guys do realize there are games other than SEIV)

[Fyron]

Do you have all of the updates for 2000 installed?