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We had Solid State theory in grades 11 and 12 actually. So some of my knowledge is from there. Otherwise largely from my first year at the university. |
in my 11th and 12th years of school, our 'solid state theory" still involved vacuum tubes 
The most scientific thing we did with a vacuum tube though was put marshmallows in it, creating giant marshmallows, which we ate.
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| You won't acheive anything by reinstalling windows just because you bought new memory and CPU. You don't gain much if it was a completely new PC apart from the hard drive.
That's assuming you have windows 2k/xp though. 9x and me are a lot less tolerant of things like that. |
My friend and I used to hate Windows XP to hell and back. But when he got a new case for his computer and a new hard drive, one of his friends installed Win XP pro. Since then, he started liking it a lot. I've stuck with Win ME because I have yet to get serious errors other than the blue screen of death many once or twice. I've heard people say ME has bad memory allocations, but I've witnessed Win XP home really suck down the ram. (where the heck does it all go?)
I dont really mind a reformat, I enjoy fooling with my computer
But I need to know. ME? XP home? XP pro? I know for XP home I need to activate it which means I would have to buy a new copy (f**kers) my friend said when they installed pro, it didnt have any activation. Or would sticking to ME be better? Cause after all, the CPU is AMD Athlon XP 2500+ lol.
don't use XP, or XP Pro unless it is yours..
otherwise use the win2000 pro i *ahem* you..
of the two, i prefer the 2000 pro, it has less of the gadgets that eat ram IMO
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I preffer win 2000 to any especially ME.
Its vertually the same as xp pro but with out the spinkee colours and also dont eat up as much ram.
Altho I do like XP pro.
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| ? posted by Crono |
| Orph, many people can use the same copy of XP Pro. Just don't activate it or install the Service Pack and you should be good. |
if i might ask, what good is it if you don't, or can't do either?
i mean, all the net junk floating around?
seriously, my dad has his legit copy of XP, but had yet to update it, and in the first 30 minutes online, and he already was getting awful crap.. some worm or somesuch.. i had to go sort it all out, and finally fixed it by updating the damned thing..
he had 56k and it took so long to do, he kept putting it off and... well you know 
anyways 2000pro is rock solid too, but can be registered to anyone..
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i was asking cause i do indeed have XP pro, but fear using it for obvious reasons..
i was genuinely curious how you circumvented the "microsoft knows" step..
i might try somedays soon, but 2000 pro is so nice, i would be hard to persuade its much better, or at least enuff better to warrant my time.
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[addsig]corperate XP would bug you less in spite of your precautions..
i have yet to find a corperate version to add to my collection.
thanx for the heads up crono
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