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Essay / The Pros and Cons of Windows XP - 458
When Windows XP was released on October 21, many people were happy to get the newest operating system. The operating system pro; finally, it has improved its appearance and graphics due to desktop browsing (it looks different from its previous operating system, Windows 200), it will detect any hardware because it will automatically search the driver on the Internet (such as a printer, flash drives, etc.) so that the hardware can be used. Networking in Windows XP was easier with the setup wizard to complete the use of networking. There are other things I would like to work on in Windows XP, but sometimes updates change and improve things in Windows XP, including updates to get rid of viruses. Disadvantages of Windows XP also became more vulnerable and was mainly affected by viruses and malware attacks (due to getting updates, updates were sometimes annoying as they were forced to be downloaded and installed, including restarting the computer to complete the process). . There were a few things that were also removed from Windows XP when it was upgraded from 2000, like disabling background edits in documents (I miss them, they were cool). The infamous “Send” and “Don’t Send” error reports were appearing too often. Some software has incompatibility when it was designed for use with an older operating system. Sometimes you may need to search for the update when automatic update cannot find them. Additionally, Microsoft has configured the system to be tracked for 30 days without the product key (to avoid piracy, but sometimes paying for the disc and product key can also cost a lot of money). However, 32-bit is different from 64-bit, such as RAM usage. You can use almost 3.5 GB of RAM in 32-bit, but you need to upgrade to 64-bit to use up to 4 GB of RAM. Some programs are irreconcilable for 64-bit, but later programmers would make it work with 64-bit. Otherwise, some people decide to stick with 32-bit for their usage. Upgrading from/to XP was a good deal because the old files were in the Windows_Old folder. Unfortunately, to use the program that was previously installed in the old operating system, it exists, but is not installed for the newer operating system migrated to such as Vista. Unfortunately, it was necessary to reinstall the program on the operating system to continue using it, but the settings reverted to default (some people customize the settings themselves).).