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(Message started by: 5-string on Apr 18^th, 2004, 12:10pm)

Title: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by 5-string on Apr 18^th, 2004, 12:10pm

I bought and XP upgrade software package for my pc about 2 days before I broke down and bought a whole new set-up. Since my new system has XP already in it,I don't need the XP upgrade I just bought. (for $100.00 and removed it from the plastic so I can't return it even though I did'nt install it!...oh well!) Sooo..... I figured I'd offer it to someone here that needs it but doesn't have the $$ to upgrade. If you're interested, let me know and I'll send it to ya. It's just sitting here collecting cat hair. I just bought it 2 weeks ago. And I won't take any money from any of you for it.
...Mark..

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Cerberus on Apr 18^th, 2004, 12:14pm

I could use it...

Gonna load XP onto my system I reckon pretty soon.

Ramon

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by jonny on Apr 18^th, 2004, 12:16pm

You ROCK....Mark!!!

.......................jonny

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by 5-string on Apr 18^th, 2004, 12:26pm

You got it Remon. Give me your address..I'll send it out tommorow.
...Mark..

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Kirk on Apr 18^th, 2004, 1:35pm

If you want to upgrade your new machine 5-string.
I can let you have SuSE 9.0 Pro.

TTFN [smiley=smokin.gif]

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by 5-string on Apr 18^th, 2004, 2:27pm

Cool. I've got an HP pavilion(160mg) set-up. I don't have a pentium though. Do I need a pentium for that? soory,I'm still new to computer tech...Thanks Kirk,
...Mark..

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Kirk on Apr 18^th, 2004, 2:54pm

Sure it will go on a Pavillion. Or most anything else for that matter. Its pretty agnostic about that sort of thing.

TTFN [smiley=smokin.gif]

Send shipping info to kirk@oregonfast.net It will be sent out post haste.

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by cootie on Apr 18^th, 2004, 4:13pm

XP is installed in my new PC I bought a few months ago cuz my HP pooped a motherboard. Anyhow......I have found out alot of my old software is NOT compatible to XP.......(esp my 4 yr old digital camera) the software will NOT install period. A few have sent me links to try and see what I can do.....and am workin on readin up in my spare time (thanks for the info guys)....but jus thought I'd bring it up that maybe....jus maybe you'll have some conflicts to work on and figure out. My PC BEEPS when I run some games too and goes nuts if I don't get out.....sounds like onea them British police cars sirens it gets so bad. Am thinkin that mite be when I run them in the 3-D mode.....which is too cool not ta use. Pam with XP blues

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Superpain on Apr 18^th, 2004, 4:48pm

Pam, you shouldn't need any extra software for your camera with xp... Just plug it in and it should show up in "My Computer".

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Superpain on Apr 18^th, 2004, 4:49pm

And if it doesn't, just get a card reader for whatever kind of memory card the camera uses.

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by cootie on Apr 18^th, 2004, 9:04pm

No shit.......guess the others did mention that but for me I couldn't comprehend how that could work ? I'll try it. Functioning camera-less in Burbank Pam

I still can't spell....thank you modify !!

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Bob P on Apr 19^th, 2004, 1:52pm

5-string,

You better make sure what Ramone is running now is upgradable. You can't use the upgrade with all previous version of Windows. I forget which ones (I think ME) don't upgrade and you need to buy the complete XP software.

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by brain_cramps on Apr 19^th, 2004, 1:57pm

on 04/18/04 at 13:35:40, Kirk wrote:

If you want to upgrade your new machine 5-string.
I can let you have SuSE 9.0 Pro.

on 04/18/04 at 14:27:05, 5-string wrote:

...soory,I'm still new to computer tech...Thanks Kirk,
...Mark..

Oh-oh! :o

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Opus on Apr 19^th, 2004, 4:11pm

What's the matter Grant?

Don't want to see Bill lose another drone?

So far SuSE seems the best for me. It even works with my crazy joystick that windows hates so much. Can't wait until 9.1 comes out.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by 5-string on Apr 19^th, 2004, 5:41pm

on 04/19/04 at 13:52:47, Bob P wrote:

5-string,

You better make sure what Ramone is running now is upgradable. You can't use the upgrade with all previous version of Windows. .

Thanks Bob. Hey Ramon, this version is for windows98,windows98 2nd edition or windows millennium edition. Will that work?

And Opus/Paul, I would love to see a group of young people assemble a company that would knock Microsoft down a few notches. That would be fun to watch.
I hope the Microsoft police are'nt reading this..if they are, I might be in big trouble for even thinking it. Before you know it Microsoft might have there own"patriot act".
..Mark..

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Cerberus on Apr 19^th, 2004, 6:51pm

Yup works, running WinME now...an if that don't jive I can always switch back to 98 yuk!

Ramon

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Opus on Apr 19^th, 2004, 8:10pm

5 string,

There are a lot of companies, I don't know the age of the employees,

Mandrake (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/)- best for beginners.

Fedora (http://fedora.redhat.com/)- RedHats free version.

SuSE (http://www.suse.com/us/)- smooth, UIs for almost everything.

Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.net/)- Really good, you don't have to install, just run from the CD.

FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/) -I don't want to leave Root out.

And lets not forget GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)- where it all began.

Remember all these are free, as in speech and beer.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by brain_cramps on Apr 19^th, 2004, 8:38pm

on 04/19/04 at 16:11:22, Opus wrote:

What's the matter Grant?

Don't want to see Bill lose another drone?

sheeeeesh! you just never give up - do ya? You penguin lovers will never pass up a chance to convert someone. ::)

The reason I posted what I did was I'd hate to see someone who is self-admittedly "still new to computer tech" get steered down that road.

And before you say that its soooo easy, how is your mom's Linux system running? ;;D Is she finding it as easy as you said she would? She was gonna do the installation all by herself, right? (If someone is unsure of their "abilities", why not just buy a computer with the OS installed?)

on 04/19/04 at 16:11:22, Opus wrote:

So far SuSE seems the best for me. It even works with my crazy joystick that windows hates so much. Can't wait until 9.1 comes out.

BTW... If all 6 of the Linux flavors you list run sooooo good, why didn't you just settle on the first one? just curious ::)

grant ;;D

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Opus on Apr 19^th, 2004, 9:58pm

on 04/19/04 at 20:38:43, brain_cramps wrote:

And before you say that its soooo easy, how is your mom's Linux system running? ;;D Is she finding it as easy as you said she would? She was gonna do the installation all by herself, right? (If someone is unsure of their "abilities", why not just buy a computer with the OS installed?)

My mother is waiting for the warrantee to run out. She thought XP would be easy to use but has found out it isn't. I will have her try Knoppix, then this summer I will probably install SuSE. She cannot format an hard drive so she probably couldn't setup a dual boot system. But I am sure she could install Linux as a single system. Right now she is frustrated because XP is running like molasses even though it is free of ad/spyware. So she may let me do it sooner.

on 04/19/04 at 20:38:43, brain_cramps wrote:

BTW... If all 6 of the Linux flavors you list run sooooo good, why didn't you just settle on the first one? just curious ::)

Right now I am using Mandrake 9.2 and testing SuSE, Fedora core2, with the 2.6 kernel. Mandrake just doesn't do what I want without a lot of prodding. But I can use it for my everyday tasks. What I really need is some better hardware, this 500Mhz celeron just doesn't cut it for large image manipulation. The SCSI hard drive helps but not enough. I have to keep Mandrake on it because my daughter really likes it a lot. She did get upset when her games stopped running in Wine, but they also won't run in windows either. Must be some freaky bug that fell out the sky, they give the same error on two different computers with two different os's.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by brain_cramps on Apr 19^th, 2004, 10:16pm

on 04/19/04 at 21:58:07, Opus wrote:

...She thought XP would be easy to use but has found out it isn't...

I'm not sure how Knoppix (or anything for that matter) is going to be that much easier to use.

on 04/19/04 at 21:58:07, Opus wrote:

...Right now she is frustrated because XP is running like molasses even though it is free of ad/spyware...

What is she running? There's probably an easy solution. (easier than installing and learning a new OS ;;D )

on 04/19/04 at 21:58:07, Opus wrote:

Sounds pretty "convenient" to me! ::)

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Opus on Apr 19^th, 2004, 10:50pm

on 04/19/04 at 22:16:44, brain_cramps wrote:

What is she running? There's probably an easy solution. (easier than installing and learning a new OS ;;D )

XP pro SP-1 on a dell with a pentium 4. I haven't looked at to see what's up with it. I'm sure she needs some updates, I couldn't get them from M$ to burn to a disc for her so she will have to do it on dialup. It has been pretty stable, with only a few BSOD's.

on 04/19/04 at 22:16:44, brain_cramps wrote:

Sounds pretty "convenient" to me! ::)

Well it is for me, I am having a lot of fun breaking things and repairing, compiling new kernels, I am also working with networking trying different programs in both Linux and Windows to run the other with a virtual desktop. I also have one less machine to maintain as Linux doesn't need defragmenting, cleaning temp files, and I haven't lost a DLL yet.

There are Computers coming out with pre installed Linux, but not everyone has $300 to spend a new computer.
Opus/Paul

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Superpain on Apr 20^th, 2004, 2:26am

There's gotta be a problem with your mom's machine.
I only have a 1.3ghz pentium4 with xp pro, and I just reformatted and it's as fast as any mom could ever need it to be.... Are you sure she's not just frustrated with dialup?
Either that or it's just choked up with bullshit programs and a used and abused registry.

If you were a good son you'd get her cable internet acces and reformat her drive for her. :P [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Opus on Apr 20^th, 2004, 8:13am

on 04/20/04 at 02:26:33, Superpain wrote:

Either that or it's just choked up with bullshit programs and a used and abused registry.

Her Desktop is becoming very slow to respond. She did get get Incredamail a few weeks ago. I have checked it for spyware and it was clean. Defragging didn't help either. I still have to learn how to repair NT. Guess I have to do some reading.

on 04/20/04 at 02:26:33, Superpain wrote:

If you were a good son you'd get her cable internet acces

No cable where we live. I have offered to hook her up to my DSL via wifi ( she lives next door) but she says dialup is fine for her.

on 04/20/04 at 02:26:33, Superpain wrote:

and reformat her drive for her. :P [smiley=laugh.gif]

Is that the windows answer to all problems, a clean install every year?

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: Does someone need and XP upgrade?
Post by Superpain on Apr 20^th, 2004, 2:16pm

Pretty much... :D