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Post by endo on Jan 5, 2012 22:29:03 GMT -5
Decided to say screw it on the new hard drive for now, they're not worth the prices they're at right now to me. So, I wiped my drive and instead of re-installing Windows 7 64 bit that came with my PC, I decided to try my copy of Tiny XP, just to see what would happen.
Holy crap is my system blazing fast!! No frills, and no unnecessary software, just a super fast OS. Always loved XP, thought Vista sucked and 7 had too many bells and whistles for me. Streamlined and fast now, and that works just fine.
Lost everything I had on the drive, but nothing too important and I can get it all back down the road anyway. Happy it all worked, no issues.
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Post by leroy on Jan 6, 2012 2:27:10 GMT -5
i've got xp on my other pc. the pc i'm using for surfing the web has windows 7 installed. i don't mind either.
a friend has windows vista and he hates it.
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Post by NDX on Jan 6, 2012 11:34:46 GMT -5
I have Vista. I don't use it for anything, so I'm apathetic towards it.
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Post by endo on Jan 6, 2012 18:10:27 GMT -5
Really didn't like Vista out of the box, but with some tweaking it actually wasn't too bad on the wifes laptop. This PC had 7 installed when I got it. It's a gaming rig really and 7 was OK, but it used a lot of resources for all of the eye candy. Now that I have XP on this rig, it barely uses any resources and is screaming fast. Really liking this right now.
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Post by gorepolice on Jan 6, 2012 22:15:07 GMT -5
I have XP and it works just fine for me.
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Post by endo on Jan 7, 2012 18:42:26 GMT -5
Tiny XP is even better, as it's been modified to have all of the BS no one ever uses removed. It's very small and installs in about 6 minutes. So in a system maxed out with RAM and a fast processor, it screams. Loving it.
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Post by endo on Jan 8, 2012 12:36:54 GMT -5
So, after I wiped my drive and lost everything on it including all 156 episodes of The Twilight Zone, guess what I found? A new 2TB external drive for $119 on Tiger Direct. Should be here by Thursday. Damn, if I had waited a week, everything I had would be sitting nice and cozy on that drive. Oh well. Guess I have some downloading to do.
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Post by Tony Hates Everything on Jan 8, 2012 20:03:54 GMT -5
Hearing this makes me wanna do this to my pc
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Post by endo on Jan 8, 2012 20:29:48 GMT -5
I re-install every year. It's like spring cleaning. Get rid of all the accumulated junk. Always lose somthing I didn't want to though. Won't happen next year with the new drive.
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Post by NDX on Jan 8, 2012 20:32:44 GMT -5
I have a 500 gig I need to go through a groom of all the crap I don't need. And then clean this up by copying all the ish here to there finally. Only been meaning to do so for... 2 years.
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Post by endo on Jan 8, 2012 20:44:41 GMT -5
I seriously doubt I'll ever fill up 2TB worth of space. Spring cleaning should be much easier.
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Post by NDX on Jan 8, 2012 21:18:22 GMT -5
... I could. By the end of the month.
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Post by endo on Jan 9, 2012 17:33:44 GMT -5
I don't save movies or videos on my drive, always put them on disc. And I don't even save music anymore now that I've found Grooveshark. Probably be a lot of games on it though. Oh, and the complete Twilight Zone series. I just don't feel like putting 156 episodes on discs.
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Post by NDX on Jan 9, 2012 21:33:43 GMT -5
Neither do I.
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Post by endo on Jan 9, 2012 21:49:01 GMT -5
What would you fill 2TB of space with then? That's 420,000 pictures. You have that many?
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