WIN XP or POS?

[Khemyst]

I have been using XP for 3 days- brand new system.

Here's what I see:

1: Windows explorer- some file directories appear to duplicate
themselves. I will see an entry two or three times. This gives me a warm
happy feeling about what may be happening to the File allocation tables.

2: The A: drive affixes itself to the first floppy and will not refresh
itself if you put another A: Floppy in. Hitting "refresh" will not budge
the floppy- it still remembers the first 3.5 disk inserted.

3: Word 2000 docs, even when closed- can not be moved- because XP still
thinks they are opened. I am in the process of writing performance reviews
for employees, and as I save and close them, I move them to a "completed"
directory. I get the message that the file cannot be moved because the file
is in use byWord. (Word has been shut down, and the file previously
closed).

4: Opening word docs: The first time I open a file I emailed from work- I
get the message that the file is in use by another user and do I want to
read only or notify.....

What is going on here???
This is not a well-behaved operating system like W98 or W2000. It seems
very buggy after only about 3 days use.

BTW-- its home XP sp1

[Jim Macklin]

XP is a multi-user OS, even if you are the only user with a
logon shown. There are default administrator accounts which
can be accessed. Because of this there will be an "all
users" folder and a "x user" for each account.

If you are using FAT32 you are missing one of the big
advantages of XP, the NTFS files system. Convert to NTFS,
if you are not already using NTFS.

What system (make /model) are you using? It may be that the
OEM who installed your OS and programs has set some
defaults. I suggest you call the OEM support and ask them
or RTFactoryM.

"Khemyst" > wrote in message
.net...
| I have been using XP for 3 days- brand new system.
|
| Here's what I see:
|
| 1: Windows explorer- some file directories appear to
duplicate
| themselves. I will see an entry two or three times. This
gives me a warm
| happy feeling about what may be happening to the File
allocation tables.
|
| 2: The A: drive affixes itself to the first floppy and
will not refresh
| itself if you put another A: Floppy in. Hitting "refresh"
will not budge
| the floppy- it still remembers the first 3.5 disk
inserted.
|
| 3: Word 2000 docs, even when closed- can not be moved-
because XP still
| thinks they are opened. I am in the process of writing
performance reviews
| for employees, and as I save and close them, I move them
to a "completed"
| directory. I get the message that the file cannot be
moved because the file
| is in use byWord. (Word has been shut down, and the file
previously
| closed).
|
| 4: Opening word docs: The first time I open a file I
emailed from work- I
| get the message that the file is in use by another user
and do I want to
| read only or notify.....
|
| What is going on here???
| This is not a well-behaved operating system like W98 or
W2000. It seems
| very buggy after only about 3 days use.
|
| BTW-- its home XP sp1
|
|

[Khemyst]

The drive is NTFS.
I am not talking about multi-user double-listings. If I scroll in Win
Explorer to a subdirectory in My Documents called "Work", another called
"Work" appears directly below. Both contain the same duplicate subdirectory
entries.

I just get the feeling from what I see in this ng that XP was/is not quite
ready for prime time yet.

Paul



"Jim Macklin" > wrote in message
...
> XP is a multi-user OS, even if you are the only user with a
> logon shown. There are default administrator accounts which
> can be accessed. Because of this there will be an "all
> users" folder and a "x user" for each account.
>
> If you are using FAT32 you are missing one of the big
> advantages of XP, the NTFS files system. Convert to NTFS,
> if you are not already using NTFS.
>
> What system (make /model) are you using? It may be that the
> OEM who installed your OS and programs has set some
> defaults. I suggest you call the OEM support and ask them
> or RTFactoryM.
>
> "Khemyst" > wrote in message
> .net...
> | I have been using XP for 3 days- brand new system.
> |
> | Here's what I see:
> |
> | 1: Windows explorer- some file directories appear to
> duplicate
> | themselves. I will see an entry two or three times. This
> gives me a warm
> | happy feeling about what may be happening to the File
> allocation tables.
> |
> | 2: The A: drive affixes itself to the first floppy and
> will not refresh
> | itself if you put another A: Floppy in. Hitting "refresh"
> will not budge
> | the floppy- it still remembers the first 3.5 disk
> inserted.
> |
> | 3: Word 2000 docs, even when closed- can not be moved-
> because XP still
> | thinks they are opened. I am in the process of writing
> performance reviews
> | for employees, and as I save and close them, I move them
> to a "completed"
> | directory. I get the message that the file cannot be
> moved because the file
> | is in use byWord. (Word has been shut down, and the file
> previously
> | closed).
> |
> | 4: Opening word docs: The first time I open a file I
> emailed from work- I
> | get the message that the file is in use by another user
> and do I want to
> | read only or notify.....
> |
> | What is going on here???
> | This is not a well-behaved operating system like W98 or
> W2000. It seems
> | very buggy after only about 3 days use.
> |
> | BTW-- its home XP sp1
> |
> |
>
>

[David Williams]

"Khemyst" > wrote in message
news:8pwAa.1030019$S_4.1039415@rwcrnsc53...
> The drive is NTFS.
> I am not talking about multi-user double-listings. If I scroll in Win
> Explorer to a subdirectory in My Documents called "Work", another called
> "Work" appears directly below. Both contain the same duplicate
subdirectory
> entries.
>
> I just get the feeling from what I see in this ng that XP was/is not quite
> ready for prime time yet.

This is called a support newsgroup. It is like saying that a car is not
ready for a road because it is in a garage having repairs done to it.

[Khemyst]

How about buying a car marketed as road worthy, that can't get out of the
garage for long?

Paul


"David Williams" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Khemyst" > wrote in message
> news:8pwAa.1030019$S_4.1039415@rwcrnsc53...
> > The drive is NTFS.
> > I am not talking about multi-user double-listings. If I scroll in Win
> > Explorer to a subdirectory in My Documents called "Work", another called
> > "Work" appears directly below. Both contain the same duplicate
> subdirectory
> > entries.
> >
> > I just get the feeling from what I see in this ng that XP was/is not
quite
> > ready for prime time yet.
>
> This is called a support newsgroup. It is like saying that a car is not
> ready for a road because it is in a garage having repairs done to it.
>
>