Defrag or Disc Clean Up
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| 1 | How do I access these on an XP, i.e. where or what do I need to go into, please? gonefishing16 - 2021-03-11 13:04:00 |
| 2 | Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter Edited by king1 at 1:10 pm, Thu 11 Mar king1 - 2021-03-11 13:09:00 |
| 3 | Thank you, king1 gonefishing16 - 2021-03-11 13:53:00 |
| 4 | I am not sure if it is going to make a great deal of difference. Are you still running XP? It is the best version of windows so far, but as it is unsupported any more, could be vulnerable to cyber attacks. tygertung - 2021-03-11 17:20:00 |
| 5 | tygertung wrote: It's too old to be attacked - even hackers have respect for legacy systems. tegretol - 2021-03-11 20:26:00 |
| 6 | This message was deleted. azza20 - 2021-03-11 20:47:00 |
| 7 | Apparently Windows ME was the worst. I might install it on a period machine and see what it was like again. tygertung - 2021-03-12 01:30:00 |
| 8 | I doubt you will like it, as I recall it was replaced very quickly. I used to replace my OS quite frequently as new versions were released. They got such bad press at the time I never did either ME or Vista. skull - 2021-03-12 10:53:00 |
| 9 | Wise move, they were both miserable in their own special way. XP was alright, though if you'd been using NT or 2000 before it it was really just window dressing (pun intended) XP was popular in large part due to that kernel heritage which was solid as compared to the consumer toys that 95 and ME were. I.E a proper multasking enterprise OS for the masses. Seven improved on XP in every respect though, after they'd got over the security freakout born of the global wave of viruses that hit XP in its final days , remember sasser/blaster? I.E. the cause of the creation of the mess that was Vista , it was the logical next step. It wasn't till 7 that the legendary bsod became largely forgotten, XP was still riddled with them. Edited by ronaldo8 at 7:35 pm, Fri 12 Mar ronaldo8 - 2021-03-12 19:33:00 |
| 10 | I don't recall a great deal of bsod on XP, but the interface of 7 was not quite as customisable as XP and the windows media player didn't go into the little dock thingy anymore. I've still got the original machine which used ME, a Compaq with an AMD Duron 700 MHz. I had problems getting it to post reliably, maybe need to put less ram in it, or swap around the chips. tygertung - 2021-03-12 22:19:00 |
| 11 | Not as customisable...you mean the three themes you could download no longer worked. Dealbreaker.... ronaldo8 - 2021-03-12 23:16:00 |
| 12 | Strangely I remember a great deal of bsods under XP, and on a wide variety of machines, a function of the sloppy DLL management, unsigned drivers, unchecked buffers, poor garbage collection and generally crap rushed programming. A situation that continued despite the multiple service packs. Oddly I don't recall at all being struck by its lack of customisability compared to XP, not even slightly. By comparison, 7 was a breath of fresh structurally, functionally and yes, even aesthetically. I certainly didn't miss the o so friendly big blob interface that looked like it was trying to give you a lollipop and a pat on the head each time you logged in. Edited by ronaldo8 at 11:39 pm, Fri 12 Mar ronaldo8 - 2021-03-12 23:32:00 |
| 13 | I always change back to windows classic theme. tygertung - 2021-03-13 08:11:00 |
| 14 | Never had problems with XP that wasn't my own fault apart from the odd infected webpage "flyby contact virus" Solid performer for me & all the admin tools were where they should be & named correctly. Win 98SE was brilliant in it's day & was easily moved between hardware but lacked modern interactions/ compatibility. Yes you can do a lot with win 10 but it takes a lot more tech knowledge to get it right, it's no longer an "all in one, easy to use admin tool" o/s mrfxit - 2021-03-13 09:36:00 |
| 15 | tygertung wrote:
I have anti virus licenced on 3 machines ( Vista, 7 and 10 ) so the chance of an attack being successful is quite remote. bryshaw - 2021-03-14 22:24:00 |
