Just to have an icon of evil..

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

I'd heard rumors you can order a disc with XP SP2 on it, for free, from MS's website.

Granted, I don't own a copy of XP, legit or otherwise.

I don't really want to. But if I need something to call on in some dank, Hellblazer-ish incantation, an SP2 disc would come in handy.

I can't find the exact page though. Anyone else know what it is?

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Re: XP SP2 isn't evil enough.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

Win95 (preferably OSR2 w/ FAT32) is perfectly usable. Stable, lightweight by modern standards, perfect for old hardware that does nothing but word processing or something. Same goes for Win98 as long as it's 98SE.

Windows ME, on the other hand, is the inbred bastard child of win98 and win2k. Not a good idea. A clean install of that abomination will crash in Explorer.exe if you have too much on the desktop.

WinME system restore is good for nothing but eating up CPU cycles and disk space. If the database gets corrupted, which it will, it spends about 15 MINUTES on a black screen purging itself before it will bring up the desktop.

Plug-and-pray is just that, with cmndinst.exe or whatever they called it hanging when a new device is connected, or sometimes at boot just for the hell of it.

And when WinME really takes a shit, and it's time to repair it, you have a 50% chance of a reinstall over an existing installation will leave the computer in an unbootable state with a corrupted registry. This was never a problem with win95 or win98, and 2k/XP is light years beyond all that win9x cruft.

Did I mention I HATE WINDOWS ME?

Re: XP SP2 isn't evil enough.

[torkell]

Ah. 98's alright, but the USB support is somewhat screwy (then again, you knida expect that with something of that vintage).
Personally I use Win2k, and I prefer it over WinXP.