windows xp

[James Baker]

Jim,

I put Windows XP on my wife's Pentium 233 MMX and haven't had a problem.  I
have a SmartLink IP address sharer with a firewall built in and it is
undetectable to GRC.  ZoneAlarm is a good software firewall, but hardware is
better.  Around $100 and worth it.

James Baker


----- Original Message -----
From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 9:06 PM
Subject: windows xp


> Hi Jim,
>
> It's a bit worse than Greg suggested. It often goes "awol" and changes
your
> settings when yet another patch is *auto installed* while you are online.
> It also *locks* onto all your components so adding things later may cause
> it to not run, if you change an item like for example a sound card.
>
> At 08:19 PM 6/22/02 EDT, you wrote:
> >
> >In a message dated 22/06/02 8:14:34 PM, Tunapiana440@cox.net writes:
> >
> ><< WIN 98 is also a lot less intrusive than XP. >>
> >
> >Ok Greg... since I am a Macophile and have a new laptop on which XP is
the
> >OS...boy talk about a challenge!! :-) Can you tell me what is meant by XP
> >"being so intrusive"? You are not the only person to make this comment
and I
> >have no idea what it means... {:-)
> >Jim Bryant (FL)
> >
> >
>
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
>
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