Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition UPGRADE with SP2
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Software Reviews of Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition UPGRADE with SP2
Customer Review: I Am Pleased
Summary: 5 Stars
The product i ordered from amazon was just what i wanted.It arrived at my home just like they said it would.The product was in good shape and everything was in the box.I am very pleased with my order.Customer Review: It Works Great!
Summary: 5 Stars
Installed this Windows XP SP2 Upgrade of Windows Millennium on a 10 year-old Gateway Professional, which worked with only a couple of hitches. After removing most of my files, the upgrade went fairly well with 128MB of RAM. After the upgraded operating system was working, I added RAM to 512MB and changed out the CDROM drive for a DVD/CD RW drive, with XP SP2 recognizing both changes immediately. After reading some reported experiences on the internet, I was a bit aprehensive; but the instructions on Microsoft's web site were very specific and better written than those in the package. Finding the ME product key proved elusive; but somehow the software found a key that permitted the installation of the upgrade. I like XP SP2 very much and have now downloaded SP3 to the computer. NO BLUE WINDOWS for several weeks now, so it was worth all the effort and aprehensiveness. Customer Review: Dreadful
Summary: 1 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: Upgrade XP Home Edition
Summary: 4 Stars
This performs exactly as we expected. Many days had been spent attempting to upgrade from Microsoft's site with no success and within a few hours we were up and running.Customer Review: Windows XP Review
Summary: 1 Stars
This was not the product I needed. And within 30 days I asked to return it and the seller said no. This is an uprade and I needed the full version. Waste of money.