How to reinstall windows xp

[Mike McCarty]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> 
> 
>>XP and stable are another pair I rarely see
>>
>>XP and reliable - not usually
> 
> 
> What exactly does "stable" mean?
> In my experience _all_ operating systems nowadays
> are completely stable,
> in the sense that they never crash.

Eh? I run Fedora Core 2, and it sometimes crashes.
You may prefer to call them "hangs".
Perhaps you limit "crash" to mean "kernel panic".

> I don't recall Fedora or Windows XP crashing at all in my case
> for at least a year.
> (Individual programs die on both systems -
> eg KNode quite often bombs out - maybe once a week -
> but it does this very nicely, and doesn't cause any problems.)
> 
> The main problem I have with Windows XP is viruses.
> 
> I don't really have any major problems with Fedora,
> except that my grand-daughter cannot run Sims-2 under it.
> 
> I think the advice often given by Linux fanatics to dump Windows
> is very foolish.
> A dual boot system is sometimes a life-saver,
> eg in determining if a problem is in software or hardware.

I'll second that. My system is dual-boot WinXP and Linux.

It also helps a lot to have the latest KNOPPIX disc lying
around.

Extra boot options don't hurt, they help.

This reminds me, it's time to do another backup...

Mike
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