Re: [H] Any WinXP SP3 users out there?

2007-12-05 Thread Greg Sevart
The press is going crazy about this. Unless there's been new testing since, the original report of 10% faster was ONE test performed by ONE person on ONE application suite--Office 2007. I very much doubt that SP3 is going to bring sweeping performance gains across the board. Yay, Word is 10%

Re: [H] IE6.0?

2007-12-05 Thread Rick Glazier
Saving links inside the MS site is very often (YMMV) a waste of time. They use active pages that are all changed in real time through a changing database program structure/thinggy... (Someone else will have to explain that better... grin) Rick Glazier From:

Re: [H] Any WinXP SP3 users out there?

2007-12-05 Thread FORC5
what they failed to say was 07 was 20% slower to start. :-} fp At 06:48 AM 12/5/2007, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with: The press is going crazy about this. Unless there's been new testing since, the original report of 10% faster was ONE test performed by ONE person on ONE application

Re: [H] Any WinXP SP3 users out there?

2007-12-05 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
What's the problem with DRM? If you buy cheap CDs and rip yourself, you never worry about it...if you really want to kill off DRM, don't buy online digital media. Buy CD and DVDs and make your own. Wayne Johnson wrote: At 08:48 12-05-2007, Greg Sevart typed: Yay, Word is 10% faster. Who

Re: [H] IE6.0?

2007-12-05 Thread Rick Quilhot
Try http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/critical/ie6sp1/default.ms px Rick Quilhot IT Manager J. America Retail Products 2 Industrial Park Williamston, MI 48895 517.655.8800 x 102 (phone) 517.655.8801 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [H] Any WinXP SP3 users out there?

2007-12-05 Thread Chris Reeves
The did get rid of the kill switch, which is funny. At this point, if someone came up with reliable DX10 on XP, Vista would be dead (IMHO). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 8:43 AM To:

Re: [H] Any WinXP SP3 users out there?

2007-12-05 Thread Brian Weeden
This blog posting sums up my thoughts on the whole WGA / Vista kill switch thing exactly: http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/12/dear-microsoft-this-is-why-people.html On Dec 5, 2007 12:25 PM, Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The did get rid of the kill switch, which is funny. At this

Re: [H] Any WinXP SP3 users out there?

2007-12-05 Thread Thane Sherrington
LOL! Not to mention lost productivity in relearning the interface. POS. T At 01:03 PM 05/12/2007, FORC5 wrote: what they failed to say was 07 was 20% slower to start. :-} fp At 06:48 AM 12/5/2007, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with: The press is going crazy about this. Unless there's been new

Re: [H] IE6.0?

2007-12-05 Thread DHSinclair
Rick, Thank you for the link. Somehow during the long WinUpdate session, MS decided to find and just install IE6.0. It came down and is all good now. But, am saving you link for any rebuilds in the future. Best, Duncan At 12:55 12/05/2007 -0500, you wrote: Try

Re: [H] Any WinXP SP3 users out there?

2007-12-05 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Someone here reported using it several weeks ago, IIRC. zaske wrote: Are there any MSDN or Technet subscribers on the list that have tried the new beta of WinXP SP3? Its supposed to be much faster.

Re: [H] Any WinXP SP3 users out there?

2007-12-05 Thread Thane Sherrington
shrug People are still benching XP against Vista? That's silly. We already know that XP is faster. (Now to be fair, the machine only had 1GB of RAM. Had it been bumped to 2GB, Vista may have done better.) T At 01:21 PM 05/12/2007, JRS wrote: Not sure, but I read somewhere that XP with

[H] Any WinXP SP3 users out there?

2007-12-05 Thread zaske
Are there any MSDN or Technet subscribers on the list that have tried the new beta of WinXP SP3? Its supposed to be much faster.