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Average Rating: Rating: - The Latest, But DEFINATELY The Greatest Windows XP does the deed that Microsoft has been aiming to achieve since the milestone release of Windows 95. I have been using Windows XP since pre-beta 2 when the OS was still under the codename Whistler. I have seen the ups and downs, the improvements, the additions and subtractions and have been very please with what as been done with Windows XP. It makes installing hardware a breeze with enhanced plus and play technology. Simply plug in your camera, usb device, hard drive, external storage, etc and Windows XP will automatically install and set it up for use. Integrated CD Burning will save you time and money from having to purchase 3rd party applications. Remote Desktop is a wonderful feature for administering your Windows XP computer away from the home or office on a separate computer. All you need to do is install the Remote Desktop client on any computer that does not run Windows XP and you are set. You can also use Remote Assistance to send an invite to a friend, co-worker, relative, anyone you know using Windows XP to control your computer and fix any issue you may be having with it. Windows Media Player 8 is wonderful, allowing you to encode high quality songs from CD's and also including options to display the Album Cover artwork for identifying your music on the folder. My favorite thing is the ability to change the appearance with the new XML skinning engine to completely have a custom and unique style from anyone in the world. There are many wonderful feature to list, and despite the talk that it is just a small step from Windows 2000 is ludicrous. Windows 2000 is similar and on the same codebase, but does outperform and include more useful tools. I would recommend purchasing the full version and not the upgrade, that way if you ever need to install a clean version of Windows XP you will not have to install an OS to upgrade from. Rating: - Not Flashy but it Works I installed this over Windows ME because I bought Visual Basic.NET and it was required to make it run. It installed fine, but be prepared for it to take several hours to install. It does not however require you to interact much. The install is very automatic. You can change the look and feel back to Windows 98, like I did. This took a bit of hunting to find all the parts but it does work. I have seen other comments about software and hardware problems, so let me address them: I would tend to agree that if you have a machine that is four or five years old you would be better off buying a new one than installing this. The biggest warning: If all your software and hardware is very old, this will not work. You must have drivers and software that are compatible. Some NT/2000 stuff will work. If you have OEM installed software, it probably will not work. I had to replace my virus software and CD-Burner software. (I chose Norton antivirus and Burn and Go by IOMEGA, priced right and installed fine.) On the plus side the install has one great feature. You can run a test first to see what will be incompatible with the new OS, and get what you need.(You should have PLENTY of time to run to the store while it installs!!) I suggest uninstalling incompatible items before you do the install, as the uninstall may not work later. I had this happen with McAffee antivirus. Also it insisted that all my USB peripherals be conected and turned on for the install. I also installed Service Pack 1 from the internet. This took about 5 hours to download and another hour plus to install, so be forewarned. Be prepared to spend MANY hours fine tuning your system. Otherwise works OK. It did hang once when I had a CD miss-aligned in the drive. Otherwise no real problems. The only thing I do not like is having to log-in at power-up. I am the only user. Rating: - Better wait until all the problems are solved ! I have bought a new notebook that came with XP Pro. When I decide to stop it, it restarts and I've to stop it again, when it not starts after I've closed the notebook and keeps consuming the battery at best. The technical suport for the notebook says I've to reinstall the XP, with the recovery disks. But I could not transfer my stuff to a desktop pc running Window98 because XP Pro keeps saying I dont have permission to access the desktop that doesn't have any password.

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