[H] More than One XP Operating System?

2008-06-16 Thread Steve Tomporowski
The basis of this is that I have an Audiophile 2496 sound card and the driver does not really support MCE. Of course the basic way to go about this would be to wipe the C drive clean and just install XP (non-MCE). But the question is, how well does XP do with more than one copy of itself

Re: [H] ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard

2008-06-16 Thread j maccraw
I'd fully suggest going with the Rampage, it's a great board so far for me. Part of the best $1300 I've ever spent on a PC upgrade when it comes to the wow, I can see the difference factor. The rest being Q6600, Visiontek HD3870X2 OC'd, 2GB Corsair DDR2-800, case+psu. Only regret is the audio

Re: [H] ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard

2008-06-16 Thread James Boswell
On 16 Jun 2008, at 13:17:570, j maccraw wrote: I'd fully suggest going with the Rampage, it's a great board so far for me. Part of the best $1300 I've ever spent on a PC upgrade when it comes to the wow, I can see the difference factor. The rest being Q6600, Visiontek HD3870X2 OC'd, 2GB

Re: [H] More than One XP Operating System?

2008-06-16 Thread Winterlight
If you are asking, how will XP do with a dual XP boot, then the answer is fine. I have been installing duplicate OS installs since NT4. I put the system files on C and XP1 and XP2 on D and E. Windows handles the dual boot just fine. It is a very useful setup for a number of reasons. And there

[H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-16 Thread Brian Weeden
Okay I've only been using Vista for about 2 weeks on my HTPC and it's got several things that annoy the crap out of me: 1) Only 1 session allowed at once. This is a real killer for a HTPC as I need to be able to have it autologin to one session to show the HTPC shell (I'm using Vista Media

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-16 Thread James Boswell
Vista more aggressively precaches things than XP ever did, which will give the illusion of things using more memory than they actually are ? ( the other issues I have no comments regarding however.) On 16 Jun 2008, at 18:09, Brian Weeden wrote: 3) Memory usage. The HTPC boots up and loads

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-16 Thread Greg Sevart
Okay I've only been using Vista for about 2 weeks on my HTPC and it's got several things that annoy the crap out of me: 1) Only 1 session allowed at once. This is a real killer for a HTPC as I need to be able to have it autologin to one session to show the HTPC shell (I'm using Vista

Re: [H] More than One XP Operating System?

2008-06-16 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Thanks for the info, I'll just have to see how many of my applications make it over, I know that some may and others probably won't. Probably the best bet would be a clean wipe but somehow I alway manage to wipe out something I wanted to keep Steve On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:16 AM,

Re: [H] More than One XP Operating System?

2008-06-16 Thread Richard Quilhot
Any third party apps will have to be reinstalled. Richard E. Quilhot C.N.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:46 PM 6/16/2008, you wrote: Thanks for the info, I'll just have to see how many of my applications make it over, I know

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-16 Thread Alex
Issue 2: Download EasyBCD and fix your MBR. Issue 4: I think this is one of those tweakable features you can disable via Folder Options or Performance Vistual Effects. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Monday, June

Re: [H] More than One XP Operating System?

2008-06-16 Thread Winterlight
At 02:42 PM 6/16/2008, you wrote: Any third party apps will have to be reinstalled. Of course, you don't share applications. The whole idea is to have two separate installs that share nothing. However, a number of simple utilities and programs will run just fine without a reinstall.

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-16 Thread Brian Weeden
I did download EasyBCD and did the MBR fix. Didn't work. Brian On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Issue 2: Download EasyBCD and fix your MBR. Issue 4: I think this is one of those tweakable features you can disable via Folder Options or Performance

Re: [H] Vista Annoyances

2008-06-16 Thread Brian Weeden
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay I've only been using Vista for about 2 weeks on my HTPC and it's got several things that annoy the crap out of me: 1) Only 1 session allowed at once. This is a real killer for a HTPC as I need to be able to