Which OS Do You Use

[DarkBlizzard]

Well since im not a mod i cant make polls and I didnt feel like bothering a Mod to ask if they could make me a poll so anyway I've been editing the hosts file with lots of ad servers for Paul and he is going to probably put two versions of the HOSTS file on the kazaa lite site...one that is a small file size....the same one it has now....and one i edited with lots more ad servers which works best with windows XP. It doesnt work very well on Windows ME thought because of the HOSTS file's size because it blocks so many ad servers. My edited version has almost 1000 more ad servers....its about 25 kb larger than the normal HOSTS file. So could you guys just make a post and say what version of Windows you have?..

XP
ME
98
95
OTHER

[BlizZ]

98

[RealitY]

Computer 1 - ME
Computer 2 - XP

[stoi]

XP but i dont use K++ or the hosts file :P

[theprisoner]

XP

[toddiscool]

XP

[Ad]

oh no :spam: :o

Xp Corp but its blackmarked *Cough

[mogadishu]

windows 2000 professional. best os out there.

[DarkBlizzard]

its not ...2000 is a horrible system...you need XP...just download it

[Ad]

windows 2000 professional. best os out there.

I used to think that and then i fell in love with XP

89 sux to many ilegal shit

ME was a nitemare

[balamm]

All of them except windows XP. No need for it at the moment and Win2K outperforms it by far anyway.

[Ad]

All of them except windows XP. No need for it at the moment and Win2K outperforms it by far anyway.

No way :o

[DarkBlizzard]

XP is by far the best....anyway it doesnt look like ur always to sure about things....after all in ur sig a little kid is sticking a butter knife where in the socket....hmm...he is gonna DIE big time when he gets shocked. :lol: :P

[DarkBlizzard]

shouldnt this have stayed in Filesharing?....I was talking about the hosts file..or well nevermind i already got the info i needed.

[rastilin]

Actually tests do indicate that win 2k outperforms win xp. Check pc Powerplay a few months back if I remeber correctly (Australian).

Xp pro 2600, I only have a modem but I'm connected almost 24/7 so I have plently of 100+mb files on my list.

[cyberdman]

Originally posted by mogadishu@9 July 2003 - 01:54
windows 2000 professional. best os out there.
I couldn't have said it better myself - and I have used XP quite a bit. I have 2 Win2K Pro machines. While graphically XP may look like it has better bells and whistles, Win2K can do everything that XP can do and it has way less system resources. XP also suffers from the same thing that made WinMe totally suck balls - that damn useless System Restore "feature." Even if you disable it it still takes up system resources.

[Livy]

ive got xp on my laptop now,which is soon gonna change to 2k
and on my other computer, it started of as win 98se, then winme, then 2k, then me again, then xp, and its got 2k again, but i might put xp on ma desktop when i get a new one soon.

[ghost944]

xp pro+sp1

[jetje]

As DarkBlizard NOT requested... but it is some time ago, so could be interesting! B)

[balamm]

Originally posted by DarkBlizzard@9 July 2003 - 07:13
XP is by far the best....anyway it doesnt look like ur always to sure about things....after all in ur sig a little kid is sticking a butter knife where in the socket....hmm...he is gonna DIE big time when he gets shocked. :lol: :P
One knife in one socket will not hurt you!

That's the point of that picture.

If you had two knives, one in each hand, one in each side of the plug, then it would be a circuit and a problem.

As long as you don't complete a circuit or touch a potential ground when holding a wire, it's relatively safe.

And I'd feel more comfortable with a knife in a socket than with XP on my computer! ;)

[ilw]

What happens if the kids touching something thats earthed? he'll still get shocked.
Edit: Sorry didn't read all of balamm's post, he mentions the earthed thing. Btw you'll always get a shock touching a mains cable, whether its large enough to feel/affect u will depend on what else u r touching, how good a path to earth it offers and whether you're hands are wet.
Its all a form of natural selection, if u're dum enough to try messing with mains electricity then perhaps the gene pool isn't the right place for u.

[Livy]

yip. :)

that'll teach em though.

[Gooch2k]

Windows XP Pro SP1 on the one computer.
Windows ME on the other.
Windows 3.11 on my main system!!!
You just can't beat the good old days when it took the best part of 2 days to install a program that was the size of a couple of floppy discs eh?

Sorry about posting this twice, my computer screwed up! Serves me right for using 3.11. :lol:

[Xilo]

I use XP Pro and Gentoo.

[Wolfmight]

i use xp, then virtual pc to run 2000, and Redhat Linux .

[Illuminati]

Windows XP. Home Edition right now because it came with the PC, but I might do a full format & reinstall of it, this time the Lamsey Corporate Edition ;)

But (looking at the poll options) - since when Microsoft omit the Windows part of its OSs' names? :blink:


XP also suffers from the same thing that made WinMe totally suck balls - that damn useless System Restore "feature." Even if you disable it it still takes up system resources.

Confucious say - What is one person's annoyance is another person's godsend.
I'm sorry if I offend some people...but I am not one to completely flush out and reinstall Windows & all my programs at the event of a semi-serious system problem. I could use GoBack in Norton Systemworks, but AFAIK it only does manual backups while System Restore does it for every day & every time I install something. Almost a year since my first install of WinXP and I haven't had to reinstall it once, despite installing & uninstalling near 100 different pieces of software, and I can base a lot of that on System Restore.

True that it should be have the option of taking it off like other Windows components, but just because it can&#39;t and you don&#39;t like it doesn&#39;t mean that others don&#39;t feel the same. <_< Check one of the numorous WinXP tweak sites to see if there is a way to take it off - If a program can be done which uninstalls DirectX, there&#39;s gotta be one for System Restore.

[exactly!]

bump

[Cl1mh4224rd]

Windows XP Pro Corporate currently, but I&#39;m seriously thinking about switching back to Win2k. I also want to install Gentoo Linux, as an experiment.

WinXP/Gentoo or Win2k/Gentoo?

[N£MO]

Xp for me. :)

[Majin]

XP is shit totally slow and uses a lot of your cpu&#33;&#33;&#33; 2000 is perfect for everything&#33;&#33; XP Sucks Hard

[fartermissile]

Longhorn Alpha 4088

[ultimatejester]

more dan 61% of the ppl rite now are using xp, if we go by the poll. i am surprised.

[Wolfmight]

Originally posted by fartermissile@10 July 2003 - 09:27
Longhorn Alpha 4088
that new alpha work n e good?

[Nightwolf]

98 First Edition&#33; I have very few complaints, so I&#39;m still debating whether XP is worth the upgrade, or if I should even get 98 SE.

[LuckyB]

Windows Me came with the computer so I got used to it.
Changed to XP Pro a while back didn&#39;t like it at first but it grows on you
wouldn&#39;t go back to Me now.
Xp is a lot more learner friendly.

[DarkBlizzard]

Oh this is cool....it got made into a poll....i just sort of forgot about this topic ....but its good to know most people use windows XP cuz that means more people can get the large hosts file i made...

http://www.geocities.com/klitehostsfile

And people please only download the file when new versions of it come out if u want it cuz since its on a free server it doesnt have much bandwidth..

So which mod made this a poll? Jetje?

I kindy thought i was like sort of hated by u Jetje cuz of that webboard topic a little while ago..and how i got a little pissed ...But since then i&#39;ve been trying to improve my mod-relations :)

[DarkBlizzard]

Originally posted by Majin@10 July 2003 - 08:05
XP is shit totally slow and uses a lot of your cpu&#33;&#33;&#33; 2000 is perfect for everything&#33;&#33; XP Sucks Hard
Not quite....once u use XP u get used to and dont like ME or 2000 or anything else at all........XP is just so awesome...i am suprised that so many people have it thought cuz i didnt think many people upgraded very often.... XP sucks hard? ....hmm....nah...it doesnt ....but go on and have fun with those other horrible versions of windows.

[aoyv73]

XP one new pc on a Fat 32 Disc how it came from the monkeys who throw it in a semi working heap and XP on my older pc

[balamm]

Originally posted by DarkBlizzard@11 July 2003 - 11:13

Not quite....once u use XP u get used to and dont like ME or 2000 or anything else at all
ummm.... no, once you get used to it might be more accurate.
I can&#39;t imagine trying to keep XP alive in a server environment.
Even a small ftp setup would be a bitch to secure and keep running without constant lockups.
Windows 2000 works as both a desktop OS and a server if it&#39;s upgraded.
The same is not true of XP despite 2 years of struggling to make it work.
The very reason we now have server 2003. XP without the "X" you might say. All X related frills have been disabled to make this version work as well as win2k server already did. Go Figure&#33;&#33;

[DarkBlizzard]

Well alot of people agree with me that once you ( anyone) gets used to it you dont wanna go back to the other ones because of how horrible they are..If you have a good computer XP isnt at all slow or laggy or anything at all...its a prefect system as long as u actually wanna spend a little money on your system...if you buy a XP computer for under &#036;1000 u can expect it to be slow because you got a bad computer. In computers most of the time the price matches the quality....those &#036;600 computers cant stand up to a &#036;3000 computer.

[ilw]

&#036;3000 :blink: I really hope thats Australian or Canadian.

[DarkBlizzard]

Alienware which are beyond the best of the best PC&#39;s cost &#036;3000

[ilw]

Just had a look. For that kinda money I think i&#39;d be asking for a better mobo and water cooling or Vapochill at the least, tho the case does look the mutts nuts. Does it even come with a monitor??

[balamm]

So.... you&#39;re saying this is the reason for XP not being a suitable OS. Not enough money paid for the hardware. You have been Duped by marketing hype&#33;

A &#036;100,000 server array still sees XP as a piece of shit but has no problems with NT or Win2k.
By your logic they must simply pour more money into it to satisfy XP ?

This has gotten beyond rediculous&#33;

[Amarjit]

Yes&#33; The most reliable OS out there is winning.

THANKYOU MICROSOFT&#33;

[Xilo]

Windows, the most reliable OS? LMAO...

[EnJoi]

XP izee

[Wolfmight]

Linux is for servers.. with Gnome UI and stuff off.. runs like DOS.

[Cram]

I use XP Pro corp :)
Tried ME kept crashing IE dont know why
I dont like having having to use refresh fix to get past 60hz gaming.
Is there another option :unsure:

[Wolfmight]

Originally posted by Cram@11 July 2003 - 18:40
I use XP Pro corp :)
Tried ME kept crashing IE dont know why
I dont like having having to use refresh fix to get past 60hz gaming.
Is there another option :unsure:
same here.. Windows ME has bad Hardware Support... <_<
Wont install n e thing itself without the darn software included..or driver download.

[DarkBlizzard]

Originally posted by Amarjit@11 July 2003 - 12:31
Yes&#33; The most reliable OS out there is winning.

THANKYOU MICROSOFT&#33;
Sure is...and thats good that its winning too :) :)

[black mage chocobo]

win98 SE

[wienerschnitzel]

What is win server 2003 like? Isn&#39;t it XP with most options off by defult. I would assume its more stable. MS spends much more money then every linux company ever could, combined. Oh wait Microsoft is evil. Sorry

[jetje]

Win server 2003 is the follow up from win2000 server...
Very simply said it&#39;s the XP version of win2000.

[Wolfmight]

Microsoft basicly adds a few new features to window&#39;s server editions and slaps a "current year" label on it hehe