Re: XP is great

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:07:45 -0700, Bob Monsen <rcsurname@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:13:10 -0400, Mark Jones wrote:
>
>> What the hell are you guys doing to corrupt your WinXP installs? I've
>> heard bad
>> reports about the SP2, but other than that XP is more stable and robust
>> than 2K.
>>
>>
>Agree completely. XP is the first microsoft OS I've actually trusted.
>Versions with the old kernel, and the FAT32 file system, are simply too
>likely to fail and take your file system with it. XP allows FAT32, but if
>any of you are still running it, CONVERT NOW! You can easily convert to
>NTFS, which is head and shoulders above FAT32, in terms of reliability.
>
[snip]

FAT32 still exists? Sheeeesh!

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