XP annoyances....
Feb. 10th, 2008 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1It's been a year since I upgraded orac to XP Home (with Service Pack 2). It's definitely an improvement over Win 98. However, it's far from perfect. Here are the problems I've been having.
1) Even though I have "show volume icon in the taskbar" checked, it doesn't show up there.
2) Windows Media Player 9 craps out on me after about 90 seconds if I'm playing an audio CD.
3) Sometimes my browser (and other processes) hangs for a couple of minutes while it's allegedly doing something that I can't find in Task Manager.
4) The real grr argh: I still get the occasional BSOD with critical stop and core memory dumps, and I can't pick up where I left off; I have to reboot and restart from scratch.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. That it, other than "switch to Linux" or "buy a Mac". If you want me to start using a Mac, then buy me one. :-|
1) Even though I have "show volume icon in the taskbar" checked, it doesn't show up there.
2) Windows Media Player 9 craps out on me after about 90 seconds if I'm playing an audio CD.
3) Sometimes my browser (and other processes) hangs for a couple of minutes while it's allegedly doing something that I can't find in Task Manager.
4) The real grr argh: I still get the occasional BSOD with critical stop and core memory dumps, and I can't pick up where I left off; I have to reboot and restart from scratch.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. That it, other than "switch to Linux" or "buy a Mac". If you want me to start using a Mac, then buy me one. :-|
