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I admit, I kept it far longer than I should have, and it burned me. It crashed, and I had to reformat with Windows XP pro. Lost alot of my stuff, too.

But, Win98 no more!

I still have it on my Celeron 500 MHz because I'm an archive nut who would rather die than delete something that might potentially be of use 10 years later.

A good 10-15 gigabytes of this machine's hard drive is archived patches, .pdfs, installers, etc.

You should've upgraded to Windows 2000. It's been shown that it only bluescreens about 8% of the time compared to 16% or so for Windows XP...

Crayz9000 wrote:You should've upgraded to Windows 2000. It's been shown that it only bluescreens about 8% of the time compared to 16% or so for Windows XP...

Technically, that would be a downgrade...
XP Home or XP Pro? I'll heartily admit XP Pro is nowhere near the BSOD free haven fanwhores claim it is but I DO know that while with 2000Pro at work bluescreens were rare but DID occasionally happen, I've been runnning XP Pro at home for two years so far without a one...
Sure, that's not even anecdotal evidence but I do wonder wether PRo might fare better there than Plain XP.
Either way, 2000 is not a bad choice by far, for a Windows variant.

Batman wrote:

Crayz9000 wrote:You should've upgraded to Windows 2000. It's been shown that it only bluescreens about 8% of the time compared to 16% or so for Windows XP...

Technically, that would be a downgrade...
XP Home or XP Pro? I'll heartily admit XP Pro is nowhere near the BSOD free haven fanwhores claim it is but I DO know that while with 2000Pro at work bluescreens were rare but DID occasionally happen, I've been runnning XP Pro at home for two years so far without a one...
Sure, that's not even anecdotal evidence but I do wonder wether PRo might fare better there than Plain XP.
Either way, 2000 is not a bad choice by far, for a Windows variant.

Its XP pro. Student discount, it was only $95, so I figured why not. I need it for email, wordprocessing, and spreadsheets, so I didn't kill myself for 2000.

CaptainChewbacca wrote: Its XP pro. Student discount, it was only $95, so I figured why not. I need it for email, wordprocessing, and spreadsheets, so I didn't kill myself for 2000.

Actually I was asking Crayz9000 WRT his BSOD ratios because I'm seriously curious.
Either way, XP Pro is by all means a step up from 98 (mind you, there have been moments when I thought Win 3.1 would have been a step up from 98 so...)

CaptainChewbacca wrote: Its XP pro. Student discount, it was only $95, so I figured why not. I need it for email, wordprocessing, and spreadsheets, so I didn't kill myself for 2000.

Damn, when I bought Pro last year from my school it was only 5 bucks, and I picked up Office XP for the same price.

Batman wrote:Actually I was asking Crayz9000 WRT his BSOD ratios because I'm seriously curious.
Either way, XP Pro is by all means a step up from 98 (mind you, there have been moments when I thought Win 3.1 would have been a step up from 98 so...)

IIRC, it was mentioned on theregister.co.uk. I can't seem to find the link now, and I'm tired, so oh well. But personally anyway, Win2K does not annoy me half as much as WinXP (mainly because it doesn't try to "help" me with every damn thing).

Crayz9000 wrote:

Batman wrote:Actually I was asking Crayz9000 WRT his BSOD ratios because I'm seriously curious.
Either way, XP Pro is by all means a step up from 98 (mind you, there have been moments when I thought Win 3.1 would have been a step up from 98 so...)

IIRC, it was mentioned on theregister.co.uk. I can't seem to find the link now, and I'm tired, so oh well. But personally anyway, Win2K does not annoy me half as much as WinXP (mainly because it doesn't try to "help" me with every damn thing).

Indeed, In my personal experience I found W2K more stable and better than XP.