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XP a plague?

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by securityadmin 1 view

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Since upgrading or should I say downgrading to the XP OS I have been plagued by problems Driver failures security issues etc. Even the Manufactuer of my mother board an ASUS P4B doesnt support this OS entirely. WHy is MS putting out something that all we can do is send reports of bugs I guess it was easier than debugging it themselves. Stay away from XP for now it has many security issues that are untold as of yet.

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by rob97

Sorry to hear you're having problems. How does this
relate to security other than your casual mention of it
as one of many issues?

by maxine.

Mmmmm ! I would be keen to hear of any specific issues you have been experiencing. I would be keener if you were aware of any paper whereby the issues and benefits of the WiN2k vs XP had been analysed.

Thanks heaps for your note of warning.

Maxine

by silverb

I must say that I'm inclined to agree with 'SecurityAdmin'. I too upgraded to XP Pro quite some time ago and have regretted it ever since. My PC (MSI5169 M/B, AMD k6 2 450, 512MB RAM) has run like a snail tortoise though treacle ever since. Main problem seems to be 100% CPU usage most of the time. I've downloaded all upgrades, (even BIOS) to no avail. I suppose it could be because I overlaid on top of ME and didn't do a clean install. My dilemma is whether now to give up on XP and do a clean install of Win2K or to go for a clean install of XP and risk a go slow again!

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