Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition [Old Version]
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Software Reviews of Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition [Old Version]
Customer Review: Microsoft XP and beyond
Summary: 3 Stars
Kudos to most every review that I've read about Microsoft OS after 98. If they could just add the driver updates so that new apps would function properly and leave the good stuff alone, that would be tremendous! Explorer was great in 98; configure one folder the way you like, and then you could make all of them look that way.(are you really sure that you want to change it?) (you need administrator privileges) I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR.lol etc,etc,etc...Customer Review: xp home edition
Summary: 3 Stars
I went to put this on my computer and already had a better version on my computer, so I couldn't use itCustomer Review: Got exactly what I paid for! Thanks guys!
Summary: 5 Stars
I ordered a copy of xp for a secondary computer's operating system, and I recieved the order in a few days, in great condition! As a matter of fact, I got the order before my computer was done being built.
Recommeded highly, and thanks again you guys!!
Customer Review: Unstable and ...
Summary: 2 Stars
In its early years, this operating system was one of the most unsatisfactory I have ever used --- including DOS, Win 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98.
Aside from being incompatible with older hardware, XP Home Edition crashed frequently --- especially if you often work with several windows open at once as I do. This was particularly unhelpful. As a writer, I was forced to save documents no less than once for each new sentence, and at touchy moments, literally every few words.
Most important, the program is highly susceptible to viruses and hackers. Preventing these two problems requires expensive add-on software and hardware.
True enough, the built-in firewall OUGHT to work. But in my case, hackers got in anyway -- four times in six months. With this software, I suffered repeated break ins, the last of which cost me some primary data and several of my original poems. Even installing service pack 2 did not help.
After the last go-round, I was forced to hire an expensive data recovery guru --- another story in itself --- but was still unable to recover everything lost.
Throughout this six-month nightmare, I repeatedly reinstalled the XP program, including, more than once, service pack 2. That, however, didn't plug the security leaks. My computer was completely compromised. In the end, I had to junk the machine all together.
In my experience, Mac and Linux operating systems are both far superior.
Now I've got one Windows machine --- a laptop purchased in early 2007 at or around the release of Service Pack 3 --- to run a BioFeedback program whose authors, unfortunately, had not created a Linux version.
Admittedly, Microsoft's final XP service pack seems to have plugged XP's most serious security holes. Still, after my dreadful experience with XP Home Edition, I forever swore off Windows as my primary operating system. Microsoft operating systems remain magnets for viruses and hackers --- to say nothing of endless bugs and technical issues --- and eons of otherwise unnecessary computer security checks and maintenance.
Customer Review: Windows XP Computer
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm StoryMaker. Sometimes, Windows XP gives you the XP face. What do I mean? Look at XP sideways. Sometimes, it gives you that face. Sometimes, it gives you the C: face. Look at C: sideways. Well, anyways, something I don't like is it advertises that a wide variety of programs run on it. I don't like that because IT'S NOT TURE. Many programs DO NOT work on Win XP. Petz 3, Petz 4, and Babyz don't work on Win XP inless you do what I explain in my Babyz review. Only something I like about it is it is brighter. Win 95 & 98 are dull with no full-color photo desktops but with XP it's so bright. Next, screen savers. Windows XP & Windows 95-98 all have screen savers, little previews that, when computer not played with enough, show up. To change the SS or preview the SS, right-click the desktop and select "Properties" from the list and click the screen savers tab. They have different screen savers and I am not sure witch I like more. Win 95-98 have "3D Maze", Win XP has lots of 3D shape SS's. And I like how Win XP recognizes Jpegs & Gifs, not Win 95-98. You should buy 1 Win XP and one Win 98/95. Signed, StoryMaker. "Gotta trust the kid's review!"