Alexander S. Kunz writes: > Uhm. I beg to differ, my experience is vastly different. HDD usage has > *never* increased more during daily usage than with Win XP. My system > partition (without additional programs - I have the program files on a > different partition) for XP is 4GB; after installation XP took 2GB, and now > its at 3.2GB - within about half a year ever since I switched to XP. Hello, > where's dem gigs goin' to? I haven't yet peeked into the partition to find > out where all that space is lost...
It's not the OS. I've been running XP for years and there has been no increase in disk usage. You do empty the Recycle Bin occasionally, right? > Plus MS never learned how to implement multitasking and multithreading > propperly. Can you say AmigaOS? :-) It is done correctly in the NT-based versions of Windows. Other versions of Windows left much to be desired, but they were no worse than other desktop operating systems of their generation. > Given the ratio of performance and stability, the NT series had its peak > with W2k - and XP is already a step backwards, there's no denying it. MS adds bells and whistles to please it's largely unsophisticated customer base. It destabilizes the OS but it pleases the average-Joe consumer. > ... the XP installation at work (with an almost *fixed* set of programs > and the occasional security updates) is already close to shipwrecked in > about one and half years. I've had no trouble with XP in years (it has been several years since I first installed it, I'm not sure how many). -- Anthony __________________________________________________ Using The Bat! v3.0.1.33 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
