windows me

[abruzzo9]

Quote from hoodooman:

Thanks for the reply. When I blew out my windows 98, I couldn't reinstall it by my self. A professional computer guy installed ME because he said it wouldn't take Windows 2000 which I origionally asked for. Was he right or was he pulling something over on me.

It depends alot on how you treat your computer. I have an old PII 400 mhz with 384 mb of RAM and WinXP and it runs just as well if not better than it did the day it was bought (1998). As long as you dont clog up your drive with loads of useless programs and make sure you defrag and scan for viruses you should be all right. Also, make sure you have a good power supply, I've had a few hard drives and mobos that have been fried by bad or inadequately powerful power supplies.

If you are looking for a computer at a rock bottom price and you don't want to physically assemble it yourself, check out http://maincomp.com You can specify each component you want and they will put it together for you. Its the cheapest and most reliable solution I've found. In fact, I've bought about 10 or 12 computers from them for my office.

 

[hoodooman]

thanks for the reply. I,m still struggling with this thing.

 

[abruzzo9]

Quote from hoodooman:

thanks for the reply. I,m still struggling with this thing.

My suggestion would be to back up everything that you want to save. Then do a fresh install of winxp. Simply boot from the xp setup disk, and then delete the partition, and reformat with ntfs, not ntfs quick.....then the install will proceed.....it should take about 45 minutes in total.

I bet this would drastically improve your system.

Another suggestion would to be install as much memory in your computer as possible. Go to crucial.com and you can run a memory test which will tell you what type of memory your computer needs and how much it can take.

 

[nkhoi]

Quote from hoodooman:

thanks for the reply. I,m still struggling with this thing.

I you are still struggling with it then it is winning, you should've killed it by now

 

[kowboy]

Quote from nlslax:

Yes, thank you.

The person I spoke to did mention that Norton does use up alot of resources. I believe that was one of the main reasons he mentioned Panda - especially for use on a laptop.

Yes just tried to install Norton Systemworks Pro. What a POS imo. System bluescreen crashes and tons of error messages. After many hours of install and clean reinstall, no luck getting it to work.

 

[prt_systems]

Quote from gnome:

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Win2K is having its support phased out already, so you really should be using XP for trading related activities.

Or you could use linux ... if your trading platform allows .... no blue screens, no anti-virus issues, no forced updates/upgrades or ridiculous and onerous license requirements ....

Just stable, easy to maintain and free.

I wish we had dumped $soft years ago .....

 

[nononsense]

Quote from snooptrader:

Windows ME is the root of all evil - I think even MS admitted it a few years back.

Invest in your trading future and get a box with XP.

If you got caught once, why give them another chance?
Go LINUX.

 

[nononsense]

Quote from nkhoi:

I you are still struggling with it then it is winning, you should've killed it by now

Makes sense.
If you absolutely want to keep your old hardware, get one of those (free) linux livecd's (eg Knoppix, Suse, Ubuntu, ...) This at least will give you a quick validation of the health of your hardware, this WITHOUT having to install a new OS on your disk.