Fernando,
Thank you. And I must say that my experience is that Win7 does run 'better'
than XP generally; when I compare basic installs with unnecessary services
disabled. I discount much of this arguing over tests because it is hard to
know what people have turned on or off in their registries. In fact when I
compared my hacked windows to Linux, there is not much difference as far as
performance. It would be nice if Microsoft released a version which was
optimized for speed and performance and then let the user decide which eye
candy they really wanted. I get much better control of my machine by using
nlite to work the registry and I have used it on production machines for
years without any problems (all had valid Microsoft licenses) it is
understood of course that once that is done,you won't get support from MS.
But in about twenty years the only time I had to call microsoft was when
one of my Windows 98 CDroms went bad.
Gerry
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Gerard Arthus <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > , you can hack the registry of Windows 7 and actually make it run just as
> > fast and stable as XP
>
> Gerry,
>
> Yes you´re right. That´s why I recommended the OP to use "msconfig" to
> disable all unneeded apps and services that are not essential if he
> wanted to speed up Win7 loading. nLite is good... I´m a registered
> user since ´98lite´.
>
> Keep in mind, however, that you cannot do "magic"... and even the
> kernel is bigger... ie Win2K was designed to run even on 64MB RAM
> machines... that´s why when virtualizing Win2K on VBox I often assign
> it 128MB to 256 MBRAM... and that gives me plenty of functionality
> (usually for small development -build win32 versions of some Linux
> command line tools via cygwin or MinGW), which works well for me as I
> don´t use Microsoft compilers at all.... ).
>
> Unfortunately, even FOSS devs use Microsoft compilers to create win32
> apps, so by following the MSVC releases, they jump aboard Microsoft´s
> ´API planned obsolescence´ and restrict their legacy OS support as
> well** (that wouldn´t be the case if they used OpenWatcom
> -www.openwatcom.org- whose executables do not end up requiring the
> MSVC runtime libs)....
>
> FC
> **
> http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/FYI-MinGW-support-of-Win2k-is-also-questionable-td4343420.html
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