I''ve been reading over the windows xp thread, and to all those anons who think windows is stable.. my god! Have you ran it only once or twice? Somebody said it is only unstable for 20% of people and they are the ones who speak up. I''ve been running windows for 10 years (shame on me) on about 10 different computers, and not one computer has ran it without freaking out every 3rd day. I don''t know what you guys use your computers for (solitare maybe?) but I probably reboot my windows box at work once a day for some messed up problem. Never ever has windows worked fine and dandy for me. And when it almost does, it won''t even shut down after being on for 2 days. Anyway, enough ranting... time for bed.

I havent looked at that thread, but I''ll take your word on it that theres some stupid posts.

I for one have had good experience with Win95 and Win2k, Win95 runs on my p133 & celery300a boxes and is very stable for the win9x kernal (it hasnt crashed at all in months), and my main box (p3-600) runs Win2k and hasnt crashed for a damn long time, the cause of the crashes it has had were early nVidia win2k drivers. Win98 and WinMe were too damn buggy to bother keeping. Win98 wont run at all on the Celery300a unless its booted in safe mode, but Win95 runs flawlessly on it, as did Win2k (before it was removed due to lack of HD space).

Remember that Windows 2000/NT and Wintendo(9x/ME) are two entirely different things.

I use Windows 95 and it''s as solid as a rock. It''s normally on most of the day, or for several days at a time sometimes. Runs all sorts of software, is connected to a network and I don''t have problems.

Yeah me either. I have a machine with win98 connected to a small lan. I program on it, I play games and it is solid. Hasn''t crash in a long time.

Though Internet explorer crap out often for me.

I too have been running Windows for about 10 years, and I''d just like to say that Win2k is REALLY FRICKIN STABLE.
Oh, and back in tha day, when I was running 98se, it only crashed about once per month.

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Martee

To Thrump:
I''ve been trying out Windows XP Beta. IT runs very good for being a beta. I''ve been running Windows 2000 since it got out. Well I ran the last beta dn the RCs too but I don''t count them for this, since I reinstalled once I got a new release.
To the point now...
I have my two computers on and online all day long. Works perfectly! The only time it doesn''t run is when I manually reboot the machines myself and that is maybe 2-3 times a month.
Most Windows crashes is caused by applications and not the OS. Don''t download and install all these small crap programs that you don''t really need, and your Windows mahcines will run great too.

Later.

windows craps out about 6 times a day at least for me and its a clean install performed yesterday

Most of the time windows crashes it is due to:
conflicting hardware
bad drivers
bad software

eg I was typing up some TGA loading code when my computer reset for no apparent reason three times on me... (I tried again and again) the final reason was Neo Trace or Zone Alarm.. can''t remember which one...

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:: Jamie Interactive ::

I''ve found the biggest problem with windows is hardware, and in particular, the motherboard. I initially bought a Via chipset-based board, and it hardly ran at all. Coupled with Win98, I found myself rebooting 5-10 times daily, and reinstalling every 1-4 weeks. As you can imagine, this annoyed me somewhat :-), so I went out an bought Win2k. It wouldn''t even install! I removed everything from the case, and ran it with only a 512k ISA video card (I normally use a G400 :-) ), CDROM and my Hard drive plugged in, folloing all the directions by MS, and still no luck. MSI (the manufacturers of my board) didn''t reply to my emails, and the tech support guys at Matrox said that it was definately the motherbord. So i was stuck with Win98. :-(

However, I had a brilliant idea. I grabbed one of those slot covers from the back of my case, and shorted out the board :-). So I took it back and exchanged it for an intel bx board. And it runs like a dream! The only reason win2k crashes now is because I write crappy software :-) (which I tend to do a lot of!).

What have i learnt from this? DON''T buy a Via chipset if you don''t have to. I haven''t used AMDs or cyrix processors much, but if you''re buying intel processors, get an intel chipset!