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Pimp Your XP

Posted by kdawson on from the old-dogs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ezinearticles.com has up an interesting article on how you can improve Windows XP to mimic and even surpass Vista — at least some of its new features. Several of the suggestions cost money and others are free. From improving the user interface with Stardock to mimicking new security features with open source software such as Sudown, the article discusses many ways that die-hard XP users can enhance their environment without moving to Vista."

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  1. That's all very well... by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but how do you simulate the hardware incompatibilities? I suppose you could get all your old peripherals a pour coffee in them, but I don't think that's really going to give you the same sense of frustration that you'd get with Vista.

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    1. Re:That's all very well... by blowdart · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well Stardock is fat bloated and heavy, so it will help simulate the slow down you may experience running Vista on your existing hardware.

    2. Re:That's all very well... by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

      I suppose you could get all your old peripherals a pour coffee in them, but I don't think that's really going to give you the same sense of frustration that you'd get with Vista.

      I've been thinking about this, and I think if you poured coffee into all your old peripherals and flushed $120 down the toilet, you might get pretty close.

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  2. Humorous. by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 5, Funny
    From TFA, first line:

    Just lately it seems to be the fashion amongst writers on the internet to compare and criticise operating systems. Joke article, right?
    1. Re:Humorous. by ghostunit · · Score: 4, Funny

      at least he didn't say "blogosphere"

  3. Re:Well tested? by Zeinfeld · · Score: 4, Funny
    That's a joke right? I hear nothing but moaning and frustrated cursing from the 2 Vista users out there.

    Runs fine for me. Only problem I have had is a faulty HP DVD-Rom driver.

    All you need to run Vista happily is an Intel quad-core overclocked to 4GHz, 4Gb RAM and twin nVidia 8800 GTX video cards.

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  4. Re:Why buy separate? by blowdart · · Score: 4, Funny

    pay the upgrade fee and get a complete, well-tested package instead

    You realise you're posting on slashdot, right?

  5. Why Emulate Vista? by el_munkie · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tried the beta a while back and was unimpressed. Then, yesterday, I went out and bought a laptop with the intention of putting Ubuntu on it. It came with Vista Home on it. I gave it a chance while the Ubuntu installer was downloading. Holy crap, it actually got worse. It seems like they ripped stuff off from OS X solely for the sake of ripping it off. The sidebar that contains "gadgets" is a complete waste of screen real estate, with a distracting slideshow and a completely redundant clock a few hundred pixels above the taskbar clock by default. It was slow as hell, and the eyecandy made the machine grind to a halt. All in all, the interface was made less navigable and slower.

    The story has a happy ending, though. After Ubuntu's installer crashed and Gentoo proved to be a pain in the ass, I traded it in for a Mac.

  6. Pimp my XP? by ferd_farkle · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read TFA.

    I learned absolutely nothing about earning money by putting my XP to work performing sex acts with others.

  7. Re:XP is _still_ better then linux and it's 7 year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "You're an idiot" not "Your an idiot" calling someone an idiot, and misspelling the first word, sort of nagates the whole post, don't you think?

  8. Oh dear... by Evil+Cretin · · Score: 2, Funny
    FTFA:

    If you are hoping that I'm going to tell you now some way of getting DirectX 10 to work on Vista, you are going to be disappointed.
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  9. Getting XP to look like Vista is easy by Opportunist · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Download theme (optional)
    2. Remove half your ram.
    3. Clock the CPU down by about 20%.

    Where's the big deal?

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