New computer - I submit for peer review
Kyna:
Hijacking this thread with a question on finding a torrent.
Faizah got a new computer last week. She didn't buy an OS as thought she already had Win XP discs (she doesn't). My Win XP discs are recovery discs only - apparently Win XP was pre-installed on my machine, so I discovered I'm stuffed if I need to replace my primary hard drive.
I went looking for a win xp installation torrent on The Pirate Bay. I got 989 returns for my search. Taking a look at some of them I saw flame wars with accusations of "this torrent has trojans, I suggest you go get mine instead" (and similar remarks were made by the accused in the accuser's torrent thread). I also saw downloads that had a lot more than win xp in them. All Faizah wants is a bootable, installable Win XP without the "extras", basically something that's the same as if she went out and purchased it and upgraded to SP3.
It's all too confusing for F-types like us. My techy T-type son would help, but he's in the middle of his exams right now and is so busy studying/revising that he hasn't had time to deal with his own computer issues (his hard drive crashed the week before the exam period started).
Can anybody point us in the right direction - what should we be searching for on TPB?
Simsbaby:
Try here. That should be what you want. :)
witch:
Quote from: Jess Maree on 2008 June 27, 15:10:57
Yeah...didn't quite get what you were saying. Something about reformatting, getting XP with SP 2, upgrading my graphics card and mentioning my "rig" has a lot of potential.
The other recommendation I would make is to got to an ATI Radeon card, rather than an NVidia one if you ever get the chance to upgrade. I swapped about 2 years ago when I built my current machine and although I have the odd graphics glitch, it's nothing like the problems I experienced prior to that with NVidia.
Simsbaby:
I know it's a huge problem for a lot of people who have nVidia cards, but I've never had any problems with the one that I've had. (GeForce 7600GT desktop, GeForce 8600GT laptop, 6200 laptop). Maybe I'm just lucky.
Lord Darcy:
Quote from: simsbaby on 2008 June 27, 18:26:50
Try here. That should be what you want. :)
This ISO is from January 2008, which predates the official release date of SP3 (5/6/2008). It may contain beta release of SP3.
As I'm not using English version of Windows I cannot personally help you finding the right version. But I think if you want the version with the official SP3 slipstreamed, you should at least look for the one that was released after the official release date.
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