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I have a copy of the XP Pro CD in my hand

Jeremy Reimer

Thu Apr 11 05:17:22 2002

I'm not sure what I would gain, except for the really nifty grouping of similar windows on the taskbar.

It might be worth it just for that.  

What do you think, should I go for it?

(*) yes
( ) no
( ) taco
( ) hahah we have no polls!

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Thu Apr 11 05:30:53 2002

(*)Haha, we have no polls :)

Other than that, It depends.

Jeremy Reimer

Thu Apr 11 07:30:32 2002

Well, I installed it.

I guess I'll have to wait and see how much I like it.

At least OSY still works.

OscarWilde

Thu Apr 11 08:40:08 2002

I assumed OSY went down because you were updating to Apache.
Jeremy Reimer

Thu Apr 11 08:42:43 2002

Nah, I'll try that tomorrow or some other day.  That was enough for one night.  I gotta get to sleep!  ;)
OscarWilde

Thu Apr 11 08:43:13 2002

damn the post.cgi took forever when i submitted my last post...

lets see if it happens again...

/me clicks submit button

OscarWilde

Thu Apr 11 08:43:47 2002

ah, okay it works now.

Go get some sleep damn it!

Jeremy Reimer

Thu Apr 11 08:44:18 2002

It's bound to be a little slow, I'm defragmenting my main Win2k, er XP drive in the background.
DuffMan

Thu Apr 11 14:51:07 2002

XP offers no real benefit over 2000 except it takes up a bit less memory.

That may be an oversimplification, but thats the way i see it.

Evil Merlin

Thu Apr 11 15:06:09 2002

You have not used XP that much then Duff...
DuffMan

Thu Apr 11 15:11:00 2002

I'm using it right now!

Also I've had it since RC1, so um enlighten me.

Imitation Gruel

Thu Apr 11 15:13:22 2002

XP apparently has fewer compatibility problems than 2K but I've no experience with that since I've never had compatibility problems with 2K.

XP also has ClearType which is nice for LCD's, but I don't use LCD's.

I'd say XP's main benefit is to get a REAL OS for those poor fuck's still on 9x.

:EVILKING:

(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 8:15 am on April 11, 2002)

HitScan

Thu Apr 11 16:12:35 2002

XP also has ClearType which is nice for LCD's, but I don't use LCD's.

Actually, I prefer the way ClearType looks on my monitor at home to the way it looks at work on the laptops we have. At work, the "illusion" of using just the red or blue parts of the pixels doesn't work, they're too large, and it looks awful. But, at home, I've got my res at 1600x1200 (or thereabouts) and it looks smooth as silk. So, give it a shot if you haven't yet. It's yummaliscious.
Jeremy Reimer

Thu Apr 11 17:26:39 2002

It's okay so far.  I like the built-in firewall, as I had lots of trouble with Zone Alarm freezing Win2k, and I don't like firewalls that are always screaming at me with giant red and black alerts of death just because someone wanted to access my web page.

I love taskbar grouping.  I LOVE this.  Keeps all my dozens of IE windows organized.

All I need now is a proper way of preventing popup windows in IE and I'll be completely happy.  Yes, I know Mozilla does it, but I don't like Mozilla.  All IE needs to be the perfect browser EVAR is a way to prevent unauthorized popups.  anyone know of any free utilities that do this that actually WORK?

Harbinger

Thu Apr 11 17:40:57 2002

XP also has ClearType which is nice for LCD's, but I don't use LCD's.

Actually, it looks quite good on the various CRTs that I'm using here.  Dell (Trinitron), NEC, Sceptre -- ClearType is teh win all around.

Keeps all my dozens of IE windows organized.

You can say that again.

HitScan

Thu Apr 11 19:37:02 2002

I love taskbar grouping.  I LOVE this.  Keeps all my dozens of IE windows organized.

I loved it so much (I was a big Be head :) ) that I have it set to group after 2 windows from the same app. It rocks.
Jeremy Reimer

Thu Apr 11 21:33:39 2002

How do you specify the number of windows before it starts grouping?
DuffMan

Fri Apr 12 09:42:52 2002

I've grown annoyed with grouping, and turned it off :(

Mozilla tabs have made it pretty much obsolete for me

Evil Merlin

Fri Apr 12 13:35:37 2002

To specifiy the number of windows, get TweakUI XP from the XP Power Toys, expand the Task Bar group, select grouping and go nuts. A few more options in there too.
HitScan

Fri Apr 12 15:02:53 2002

Either TweakUI like Merlin said, or just add a REG_DWORD named TaskbarGroupSize to this registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\