Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 16:20:47 10/26/01
I all: A couple of days ago I wrote a list of some programs that does work and those that does not in XP environment. No reply appeared, so I ms asume I left all people in amazement, frozen in awe so nobody could write a word. Well, I like that. Kind of an exercize in humility. So here goes the second one about XP perfomance. I have been using it intensively for 5 days and this is it: Pros: It has not hang at all It has not frozen until now No blue screen My internet connection -by now a simple Dial-Up one- is running two or three times faster. Fritz 6 went from around 390 Knodes to near 500 in the same 500 Mhz AMD-K6 where I runned Windows Me. Maybe I did a bad measurement before? Faster loading of all programs, including itself. Far prettier interface. Cons: It is not very friendly with AMd cards, but, although putting an unhappy face, it has worked with every driver on the integrateded card I use. Until now... Some chess programs definitively does not run: the worst case is century and to my chagrin as it is one of my favourites. Until now is not easy to find an AV program that is compatible. I found one that is more or less so, Panda Platinum, but still give me some reports of malfuntioning. But I have not tested NT AV's. Maybe they fits better. Now, say something... Fernando
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