RE: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-02 Thread Rupprecht, James R
rep and some sort of cloning software like Ghost... this will at least speed up the process. -jim -Original Message- From: Peifer, William [OCDUS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:39 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: OT: Windows 2000 "features&

Re: RE: OT: Windows 2000 features

2002-08-02 Thread David Brooks
Bill,I still have my "slide" from college if you need it :) Dave Begin Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" http://mail2web.com/ . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List.  To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit t

RE: Re[2]: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Rob Brigham
ME to XP Pro took 2 hours - only 10 minutes of which required any input from me. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 01 August 2002 23:40 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re[2]: Windows 2000 "features" >

Re: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Peter Alling
Both actually, but who know's what Microsoft will end up doing. Win/Dos was supposed to end with Win95 then Win98 was to be the last edition, it finally was ended with WinME. XP is sort of the WinME interface made more "friendly" with bright colors and fewer options, grafted onto the NTFS file

Re: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Doug Franklin
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:49:15 -0500, Len Paris wrote: > I'm not real sure that XP was actually intended to be the > successor of NT. It was definitely intended to be the successor > of Win98SE and Win98ME, though. I think that the intended > successor to NT is Win2K. Not necessarily the early ve

Re: OT: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
I can speak to this. I just upgraded my older home PC from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 Professional. According to Microsoft's published requirements, my old hardware-a 230 MHz AMD chip with 160 MB of RAM--could just get by. I wiped my old OS clean and installed Windows 2000. Well, the PC wou

Re: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Mark Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not real sure that XP was actually intended to be the > successor of NT. It was definitely intended to be the successor > of Win98SE and Win98ME, though. XP is intended to be the replacement for 95/98/ME *and NT. Microsoft had been fed up with supporting two diff

Re: OT: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Mishka
for Norton Utilities 3.x) In a nutshell, a "nice" MS-DOS stuff, that doesn't ask for hardware or "nonstandard" things like EMS and XMS (which is also hardware) will work. Everything else -- won't. Best, Mishka. > From: Fred > Subject: Re: OT: Windows 20

Re: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Ryan K. Brooks
NT - Original Message - From: "Alan Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:56 PM Subject: Re: Windows 2000 "features" > >True, true. And, it does seem to me that Win XP Home is finally > >mo

Re: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Alan Chan
>True, true. And, it does seem to me that Win XP Home is finally >more like the NT-ish versions in many respects (rather than being a >rehashed Win 9x, like Win Me was). I have never understand the position of XP. Is it the successor of 9X or NT? regards, Alan Chan ___

Re: OT: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Alan Chan
Can't answer all your questions but 2kPro was pretty slow on my P2-266 with PC66-320MB RAM and DMA33 hard drive. Some hardwares were not supported or not running at all even they claimed they should (parallel scanner, printer and Zip100). I just went back to 89SE on that machine. However, 2k is

Re: OT: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Mark Roberts
"Peifer, William [OCDUS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi folks, > >Sorry for the OT note, Or IT note, as the case may be ;-) >Just got a note from the powers that be here at work asking if any of us are >likely to have "issues" with a planned upgrade from Win 95 to Win 2k. I got upgraded fro

RE: OT: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Rubenstein, Bruce M (Bruce)
W2k has been the standard Windows OS at my company for quite some time. It is, to a great degree, 98 with a NT kernel. Looks and works like Windows 9.x, but is much more crash resistant. You won't have any trouble running old apps so long as you have enough memory: 128MB min. - This message is

RE: OT: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Peifer, William [OCDUS]
Hi folks, Thanks again to all for your many helpful comments on my Win2k questions. Very good to know your experiences with this. Regarding DOS, I think I'm on the same side of the fence as Fred. I've got a few ancient, but still useful, DOS routines that I use once in a while. The old QuickBAS