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Thread ID: 74544	2006-11-26 19:37:00	Windows Install Disease	pctek (84)	PC World Chat

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502282	2006-11-27 03:52:00	im a ''teenage boy'' and i use xp because it came with my comp, ive gotten use to it so thats what i use to format new hdd's etc, why would i go out of my way just to buy a 98 copy of windows, and reformat my hdd? huh? yeah i thought so.Theres always one in every forum.... well; I guess youre it :horrified Incidentally, youre a teenager? Heck, from this post and the others Ive seen you post I thought you were younger. Your use of the word 'boy' does seem to suit :) Anyway, try starting at the top, and read this thread for what it is. If you reach a 2 syllable word you dont understand, go here. (http://dictionary.reference.com/) Then post something somewhat relevant and legible :)	Myth (110)
502283	2006-11-27 05:16:00	I've working on a computer so old it had EDO RAM - a whopping 16 meg of it, and they were running Windows 98 from a compressed 1.2GB hard drive formatted in Fat16. The owner insisted it is a good computer :groan: I think it is a pentium 75mhz - probably cost the earth when they bought it 11 odd years ago.	Greven (91)
502284	2006-11-27 10:27:00	I run a Toshiba Libretto P75 with a 700MB HDD and 32MB RAM. It boots fast, responds snappily and is entirely usable. It runs Word 6 and a variety of other programs (appropriate to its age of course) and still has about 350MB of HDD space free. Horses for courses, so don't knock W95/P75 computers just because they won't do what the current crop of computers with GHz CPUs, GBs of RAM and huge HDDs can do. Small can be fast and effective (the Libretto is the size of a video cassette). My main computer is a PIII550 with 512MB RAM running W2K and it has only just hit the wall, mainly because I now need to process some video. Cheers Billy 8-{) :D	Billy T (70)
502285	2006-11-27 17:15:00	In my quest to push this SOYO to the limits, I have so far gotten it to support 8 200g's and a 40g root drive, 3 gig RAM, a jillion programs and 2 optical DVD-RW's, USB peripherals, card readers, scanners, AIO's, Iomega Zips, 5 . 1, 2 Canon and 1 Epson printer, DSL, 2-USB Dynamic routers, cloned screens, webcam and mike, max'd out the RAM, LAN'd with two other puters with full bi-directional sharing, 232 full length ripped movies (without subtitles or other language suppport), 3,893 MP3's, Hauppauge TV2000, S- and RCA to my home theater system, VCR-to-DVD burning and vice versa, and surf the net . I run Sony Taxi for both my Palms, and the Sony desktop for both but they need to be on seperate drives! . . . as they don't like each other very much . I keep the last hdd as my spooler and editing area, and here's where I also put orphan programs . As I see it, if it works, don't mess with it . . . . although I guess the "messing" part is 'way behind me by now . X-Pro is finally stable (yipee) and runs well with the anti-stuff I have culled so carefully . Security wise, I use nothing from Nortons, McAfee or other big box stuff . I need my processor and RAM to render pages and videos and not busy screening every pixel that I want to view . My safety concessions include Firefox, GMail/GTalk, SiteAdviser (I know . . . a McAfee thing now!), Spybot S&D, AdAware, SpywareBlaster, . . etc . . . What this tirade is all about is this: I would not like to have to reinstall everything (impossible) and I decided to keep the OPSYS on it's own 40g hdd, and that way if I have to burn it down, I can just fdisk that one hdd and leave the others alone . So far, I have not had associations and pointers messed up too bad, although WMP gets a little confused when it's re-born and has to find all the MP3s on other drives . DVD Shrink can handle it as can Power DVD5 . Oh, and Picassa gets a little miffed too . . . but not for long . My suggestions: Install your OPSYS on a small hdd and the updates/hotfixes etc, there . Send all your other peripheral programs (Firefox Downloads, OpenOffice, printers, scanners, music, vids, players (although WMP insists living on the root drive), to the next HDD you can access . . . closer to the root is better . Take an . iso copy of your HDD when it's up and running, fully documented . This works best with network'd systems, LAN is good enough . Add sufficient hdds to hold your data as this will keep them safer and away from the root drive . Run Belarc Adviser EVERY time you make a hardware or program change . . . print it out and save it! Get a FULL-INSTALL disc of your OPSYS . . . repair discs are not enough! I don't use hdds larger than 200g . . . I just think I'm better off with redundant and smaller hdds instead of larger and possibly fewer ones . I also wonder about latency with the larger drives verses the 200g ones . . . . I wonder if searches and access may be a little too slow when there's too much to wade through on a single drive . I actually installed XP on two 40gigs, one I keep as an archive and the other is running . If I need to, I can just swap one for the other . . . which I do every other month or so to keep them both pretty closely updated . Now, I know a SOYO Athlon XP is getting a little long in the tooth, and suspect I will have to upgrade to something faster . . . either that or o'clock this a little . . . but I wonder if I'd really get much better performance if I changed . . . . . . . after all, I am running clean and well right now after these three years . PS: I don't game .	SurferJoe46 (51)
502286	2006-11-27 18:41:00	Minimum hardware specs? What are they? Drivers? What are drivers? WGA? Whats that? ..... Well, XP is newer...therefore it would in some way improve the PCs? I'm actually amazed he got it working as far as that point without it bluescreening.... It seems to be a favourite thing to do with all the teenage boys round here... Damn I suppose this means that i have wasted my time copying Vista RC1 to 3027 floppy disks, so i can run it in on my 386sx with 16 meg of ram, when i bought my comp they said it will run anything available and had loads of power to spare, I mean surely a newer operating system will be quicker, more efficient and less resource hungry than DOS 5 right?	Morgenmuffel (187)
502287	2006-11-27 22:19:00	Damn I suppose this means that i have wasted my time copying Vista RC1 to 3027 floppy disks, so i can run it in on my 386sx with 16 meg of ram, when i bought my comp they said it will run anything available and had loads of power to spare, I mean surely a newer operating system will be quicker, more efficient and less resource hungry than DOS 5 right? 16 megs? 640k is enough for anyone.	R2x1 (4628)
502288	2006-11-28 00:19:00	16 megs? 640k is enough for anyone. Yeah but i want to run the new Aero? engine, to make Captain Keen look really smooth	Morgenmuffel (187)
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