PC world revelling in it, news 24 now....

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"tHatDudeUK" wrote in message
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PC world guy says Windows XP doesn't have a firewall and you need a
anti-virus software OR a firewall....

XP does have a firewall (but its crap) and surely you need both?!

LMAO @ M$..........

I remember when XP was being hyped just before release it was supposed to be
much more secure/stable than previous M$ windows versions.

"Tinklemagoo" wrote in message
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LMAO @ M$..........

I remember when XP was being hyped just before release it was supposed to
be
much more secure/stable than previous M$ windows versions.



Well the puter i have with XP hasnt fallen off the desk yet......and no one
has tried to steal it(guess they know something then!)

"Julian Hales" wrote in message
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Well the puter i have with XP hasnt fallen off the desk yet......and no
one
has tried to steal it(guess they know something then!)

He he.... Maybe you have one of those expensive things bolting it to your
desk, bolt xp by M$ is it?!

Tinklemagoo wrote:

LMAO @ M$..........

I remember when XP was being hyped just before release it was supposed to be
much more secure/stable than previous M$ windows versions.

In particular the 'secure' thing in the light of the recent worm! Is the
world going forward or backward? I'm happily running 98SE on this old junk
machine (P233MMX), it has it's quirks but then you learn to get around them.
This morning I managed to 'Diskcopy' the 40G HDD onto another as backup, all
went well; it didn't miss a beat.

Has anyone noticed now how they are pushing power surge protectors,
following the power problems in the states?
Next they will be selling generators.

"Mr Squiddy" wrote in message
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Me too. Win 98 SE on a PIII 550. Stable and reasonably quick with a 40Gb
Seagate Barracuda. Certainly quick enough to handle anything the Interweb
can throw at it. Plays a mean Unreal Tournament too.

I always got BSOD's with Windows 98. For that reason I prefer XP.

"Aosmosis" No SPAM Please wrote in message
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Has anyone noticed now how they are pushing power surge protectors,
following the power problems in the states?
Next they will be selling generators.

UPS (uninterruptible power supply I believe) and then generators :-) Then
they'll have PC world petrol stations so you can fill em up ;-)

"tHatDudeUK" wrote in message
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"Mr Squiddy" wrote in message
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Me too. Win 98 SE on a PIII 550. Stable and reasonably quick with a
40Gb
Seagate Barracuda. Certainly quick enough to handle anything the
Interweb
can throw at it. Plays a mean Unreal Tournament too.

I always got BSOD's with Windows 98. For that reason I prefer XP.



i find 98 stable on all but one machine.....ME is ****e full stop and i dont
like XP, the first time i installed it it crashed on opening media player