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U guys seem only to be usin McAfee and AVG. What about Sophos? I have used my copy since i had NT all those years ago, and it hasnt let me down once! Most of the PC's in the University that my friend works in use it, so it must be good. Ive used Mcafee as well, but im much happier with Sophos Sweep for NT. Thats Just my opinion

If you wana install XP over itself it should give u an option before it copies any files. When u tell it to install to a location, choose the location that windows is already installed in, then a screen wil pop-up. this is what it said for me: Overwrite windows files but/and keep current settings, Install fresh copy Choose another directory It should be the same for u, but i cant garuntee it. (I seem to be having a trouble free spell with XP so i havent re-installed it for a while ) Good Luck

Its usually the Via/AMD chipsets that cause problems, on one of my machines im running a Dual PII platform (DK440LX), Onborad LAN, SCSI and sound, with ATI Rage Turbo <--(this is NOT my game machine!!). Ive had no problems at all, except that when i try to upgrade the grpahics card, my mobo gets some error (but that can get fixed), its when i fix the error that Windows XP wont boot! If i bypass it and acces eindows (without fixing the prob through my BIOS) its ok, but i cant complete POST on the next reboot!!! When i put my normal ATI card back in it all works fine (even XP says it couldnt boot up, due to some reason!). My P4 PC runs fine, it ALL intel chipsets, but has an Adpatec SCSI controller, still no problems!!!

I dont kno! Germnay seem to have a strong team this time! Why didnt anybody include Senegal or Cameroon? They beat France remember! LOL. African teams have a minute chance!!!! Still my money's either gonna be on Brazil, England or Germany. Its a great thing to watch on TV, and its a good thing ive got holidays now, (If i didnt i wuld have taken the week off anyway!)!!! Lets see what happens, and who gets through, becuase France might not qualify!!!

MS should say that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few! LOL, anyway that was a cool advert, even tho i only saw it once!

Hi all, The thing is that ive used all the OS's that ur talking about. frankly i think that MS is doing a much better job at listening to their users and solving their problems. If they cant solve it then they accept that and tell you (it has happend to me, they apologised and said they cant fix it)! Linux, Unix, Mac OSx they are all good OS's but windows delivers more 'tools' that people want, thats MS's selling point! The fact is that most people in this world are NOT It professionals like some of you (sapiens74,Brian frank,bladerunner,etc) so they want a simple looking OS and an easy interface to use with lots of hardware/software support. So windows 9X appeals to them with its 99% compatibility with hardware and software, its easy setup, interface and learning curve! For the more 'advanced' users they would use NT or 2k, its got better functions, faster but sacrifices compatibility. SO! ive used windows 98 SE, NT, 2K pro and now XP. Microsoft in every new version of windows has offered something new. wether its the New Kernel of NT, or the functionality of XP with its NT core and near windows 9x compatibility! As for the removing ofbuilt in MS 'tools', why? If u dont want them dont use them! or if you cant handle that (for any reason), look on the net, do some research and find out how the hell you remove them! There ARE some tools out there that do these things for you. MS might use some business tactics that we do not like, but thats nothing new! Intel do the same with AMD, and AMD do the same with Intel! Its the way things are! Now here is the good part: IF YOU DONT LIKE MS AND DONT WANT TO USE ANY OF THEIR PRODUCTS DONT BOTHER OWNING A COMPUTER!!! Why? Becuase most things use MS files, drivers etc. And franlky without MS we wouldnt have a great operating system which can combine hardware form differnet manufacturers to work together properly! It might have a few probs but it does the job fine!

hi all, One of my friends recently bought a TNT2 Pro, and wanted to replace it with his ATI 3D Rage pro, the isntallation went fine until it came to the part when windows XP usually boots up, but nothing happened, the screen just stays black! I checked the HDD boot order they were fine. Any suggetions? he has an: Intel DK440LX Motherboard Dual Pentium II 300Mhz 512MB RAM 2x ULTRA-Wide SCSI drives 1x normal HDD the chipset i the I440LX Would re-installing windowsXP with the new video card in place have any effect? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thnx alien but ive already tried that and it wont work becuase windows wont boot. It seems windows cant decide what to do and just stalls when it should bootup! Ive sent Microsoft and e-mail since i got a support contract with them, so hopefully they can wokr it out. Ive tried all your methods but none have worked so far . Hopefully either someone else or Microsoft can come up with an answer!

One Question, i tried to put the VGA drivers in but XP only shows me the ATi drivers, it wont show me the norm VGA drivers even when i uncheck the "show compatible drivers only" box, so how i get the VGA drivers!

Thnx Sampson, see when i tried to re-install Xp and i put the bootdisks in, it show nothing even tho the a:\ drive is reading. I had to reserve C800-CBFF memory adress range in my BIOS so my graphics card would boot properly. when i did THAT an i retried to get XP it showed nothing. it would seem its XP that needs that memory adress or another of my hardware components is there anyway of finding out how? I have put the old card back in and made the memory range available XP booted fine! i even tried doing that with the TNT2 card and without reserving the memory range that semed to work until i got the error message during post: Allocation static node error #00 in my mobo manual it sais to reserve that memory adress so that error goes away, but when i do that XP messes up! Ive sent a help Message to Microsoft and they are gonna try and solve it too.

The nVidia 28.84 drivers are not yet posted on nVidia's actual driver update site for windowsXP (http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=windows2000). This might mean they need a bit more work! Uninstall the newer drivers and re-install the older drivers and see if the nVidia control panel comes back, if it does it will be the newer drivers that are faulty!

XP Pro is definitely better for games that 2k pro, with compatibility, speed (sometimes)and stability!

Go to Microsofts site and look for it there it should say DirectX for Windows 2000/XP download that. But its risky..... or u could re-install XP Good Luck!!