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« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2003 06:37 pm CDT »
You'd be surprised.  I usually double or tripple his score and win the game myself, or beat one opponent and wait for him to destroy his.  I've been playing for around 3+ years, but it is off and on.
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« Reply #16 on: October 25, 2003 06:37 pm CDT »
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Now thats style I want!  How exactly did you customize it to look like that?  Im using a Win2k scene atm.


I use WindowsBlinds, which gives the custom effects for the start menu and windows, etc..

Here's some examples of what my windows look like:

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« Reply #17 on: October 25, 2003 09:12 pm CDT »
Those graphics are hawt. Of course, I'm stuck on a crappy windows 98. Can't wait for Christmas, I'm *finally* getting XP!
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« Reply #18 on: October 25, 2003 09:16 pm CDT »
Windows 98SE is infinitely better than Windows XP. (Well, in my opinion.) I can sacrifice a few GUI's, themes, and drivers for an extra 700MB of space and 75MB of runtime RAM. And you don't need Windows XP for a quicklaunch, background, and Winamp skin.
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« Reply #19 on: October 25, 2003 09:50 pm CDT »
Yeah... Silv is right.

I was going to mention that I am still running Win98SE and could set all my stuff to look just like that (if I REALLY wanted) but personally I dig the plain boring flat colors of the old style.

In any case, XP does not offer much new stuff in the way of features (for most people) as it really just reorganized all the defaults and the look of everything so you have to figure out where everything is again and how to modify all the OS stuff again (illogically they removed the network protocols tab from the network properties window and added a 'network bridge' icon in the networking control panel... more clickin, more confusion.  Comming from a win98se/win2k environment, all the extr icons and reordered bullmalarkey made me frustrated with my bro's new computer, and I reverted to my windows98SE again.)

The only things I like about XP is that it has .net framework with it in the newest versions (from what I hear) and they fixed the active dessktop so it's not a memory hog, though you have to go download the upgrade as soon as you install.  It seems that there's so many damn upgrades to download that it's really not feasible for anyone slower than Cable/DSL to get a new OS, especially if they've already spent years downloading patches for their windows98SE machine.   (I just got DSL in march this year.  If I had lived 1/4 of a mile farther away, it would be an other 4 years before I could get it, and I would be stuck on my 56k still)

You need to decide what's really best for your needs, but if all you want is to change your skins and GUI, then you could stay with windows98se and still have the same look.  (though, as I don't use skinning stuff, I am not sure how all that works :-p)

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« Reply #20 on: October 25, 2003 10:03 pm CDT »
An extra 700MB?  Let me pull up a file:

Code: [Select]
Compiled on 9/21/2003

   Used Storage
   ------------
  6,354,587,648
 10,824,609,792
237,313,683,456
===============
254,492,880,896


Usable Capacity
---------------
 10,487,197,696
 29,520,494,592
479,994,048,512
===============
520,001,740,800


     Statistics
---------------
    48.94% Full
    51.06% Free


===============================================

Compiled on 10/25/2003

   Used Storage
   ------------
  7,796,891,648
 14,680,297,472
253,167,849,472
===============
275,645,038,592


Usable Capacity
---------------
 10,487,197,696
 29,520,494,592
479,994,048,512
===============
520,001,740,800


     Statistics
---------------
    53.01% Full
    46.99% Free

         Growth
---------------
+21,152,157,696


To some of us, that amount of space doesn't much matter.  As for an extra 75MB of RAM:



Windows XP is more stable, that's the big advantage over 9x.  That's why I like it--I love Windows 2000 as well.  Things change, you can get used to a new icon layout, as did everybody else that was used to Windows 98.
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« Reply #21 on: October 25, 2003 10:10 pm CDT »
What's that file? the difference in space between 98SE and XP? If so, that's either wrong or you took 98SE at absolute maximum capacity and XP at minimum; and even then the diffrence wouldn't be that small. Under typical install, XP takes almost a gig, and 98SE takes about 250 - 300MB.

And as for usage, XP takes anywhere from 75-90MB, idling. 98SE takes 25-30. Some of us don't have supercomputers with hundreds of megs of RAM to burn. I haven't noticed any stability problems with 98SE. In fact, I've had the most grief with XP.
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« Reply #22 on: October 25, 2003 10:21 pm CDT »
Personally I like xp more than 98 ...
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« Reply #23 on: October 25, 2003 10:34 pm CDT »
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Windows 98SE is infinitely better than Windows XP. (Well, in my opinion.) I can sacrifice a few GUI's, themes, and drivers for an extra 700MB of space and 75MB of runtime RAM. And you don't need Windows XP for a quicklaunch, background, and Winamp skin.

No, I would never..  EVER go back to 98SE.  Iv'e never had so many problems with any OS in my life--Iv'e been on win2k pro for over a month and I have only froze up ONE time, and ctrl+alt+del fixed it..  with 98SE, if I ever froze, I had to restart regardless of what I did.

Windows 2000 is 100x more stable, and a ton more compatible with the latest software and updates..

Quote from: "Silvanoshei"
What's that file? the difference in space between 98SE and XP? If so, that's either wrong or you took 98SE at absolute maximum capacity and XP at minimum; and even then the diffrence wouldn't be that small. Under typical install, XP takes almost a gig, and 98SE takes about 250 - 300MB.

And as for usage, XP takes anywhere from 75-90MB, idling. 98SE takes 25-30. Some of us don't have supercomputers with hundreds of megs of RAM to burn. I haven't noticed any stability problems with 98SE. In fact, I've had the most grief with XP.


I'm on a pentium3 700 mhz with 383 ram, and I have no problems with lack of resources at all--in fact, I run much quicker on 2000 than I did on 98SE (purely because of stability).  I definately don't have anything near a supercomputer..  you can't even buy these things anymore o_o
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« Reply #24 on: October 26, 2003 12:02 am CDT »
383 RAM? 0_o
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« Reply #25 on: October 26, 2003 12:40 am CDT »
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« Reply #26 on: October 26, 2003 12:44 am CDT »
Rofl, think you have enough quicklaunch icons? =P
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« Reply #27 on: October 26, 2003 12:45 am CDT »
I hate using normal desktop icons...they take up too much room.
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« Reply #28 on: October 26, 2003 01:20 am CDT »
Win98SE = FAT32
WinXP = NTFS (or FAT32)

FAT32 = Files up to 4GB
NTFS =  Files up to 2TB (or for those computer illiterate, 2 Tera Bytes or 2,000GB)

WinXP = teh winnar.
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« Reply #29 on: October 26, 2003 01:25 am CDT »
I = NTFS

Someday we will all be 100% linux.  Someday.  Someday.
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