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| 461945 | 2006-06-09 23:45:00 | A couple of queries - (1) I am using XP pro on my desktop and XP home on my laptop. As XP home seems to satisfy ALL my requirements and to simplify my computing I was thinking of installing my home XP on the desktop - will this cause problems? The laptop is never used on the internet but I have the computers networked. (2) I read constantly of the advantages of LINUX but does it read all the programs I have already eg Adobe, MSWORKS, DCWIN, ACDSee etc etc or do I have to get new LINUX programs. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 461946 | 2006-06-09 23:53:00 | If XP home is the same version as the one on the laptop, then no you cant. You maybe able to install Home on the desktop, but whether it activates, or not is another matter. And if u dont activate it, it'll lock u out after 30 days. And if the desktop is on the net, and the laptop is networked, then it is on the net. Thats if you've configured it. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 461947 | 2006-06-10 00:11:00 | Once again Thanks Speedy. I rather suspected there would be a problem - so I will leave things as they are. I only use the network connection occasionally to update files etc - the laptop having twice the size of HD that the desktop does it gets used as a backup a lot. You may be help there also. Years ago I used DRDOS mainly because of the fact it compressed the HD and enabled us to get twice the "stuff" on. Despite many people being very negative about the program I found it reliable and even at times faster than DOS. With only 20g HD on my desktop I am beginning to reach the point whre I should consider using XP compression on my files (or I get a new HD - and ruin my reputation for being a tight wad). But I am a bit scared - nobody seems to have used it that I can find. Does it work? Is it reliable? Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 461948 | 2006-06-10 00:17:00 | I've never compressed the hdds on these, so dont know. BUT, I have read on the net, some programs may not install on compressed hard drives. And something like DRDOS may or may not be compatible with XP anyway. Other than that, I would use something like ccleaner, / defrag the hdd's. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 461949 | 2006-06-10 01:02:00 | A couple of queries - ...... (2) I read constantly of the advantages of LINUX but does it read all the programs I have already eg Adobe, MSWORKS, DCWIN, ACDSee etc etc or do I have to get new LINUX programs. TomThere is Acroread which is the Adobe reader for Linux. The rest however (if supported as Im unsure if MSWORKS formats are supported in Linux) will need to be new Linux applications |
Myth (110) | ||
| 461950 | 2006-06-10 02:39:00 | With only 20g HD on my desktop I am beginning to reach the point whre I should consider using XP compression on my files (or I get a new HD - and ruin my reputation for being a tight wad) . Just bite the bullet and spend $100 on a new 80GB hard drive and forget about compressing the hard drive . You don't have to tell anyone if you are worried about your reputation and you can add the new drive as a slave to save your data on if you wish . As for the OS I would stick to how it is at the moment . There is very little difference between XP Home and XP Pro on the surface . Really not sure why you would be wanting to change . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 461951 | 2006-06-10 03:17:00 | I too used DRDOs . . . I've still got the manuals, and installation disks(5 . 25") . MS tried to do the same, but managed to upset a lot of people . They started by stealing the code from another company, who sued them . And won . Thus there is no DOS 6 . 0 . :D Then MS wrote their own . But they made a bit of an "advanced feature" in the installation . Instead of giving the pseudo drive a "safe" name like DRDOS's "H:", or giving the user the choice, they called it "D:", assuming that everyone had one harddisk, "C:" . Those with a lot of files on their D: drive didn't appreciate losing them all . I think the one in DOS6 . 22 is OK to use . The basic problem with a compressed disk is that it puts all[ your eggs in one basket . When you get disk problems, you can lose files . When you lose the one file which contains all your compressed files, you lose them all . I have an idea that the compression used on XP is more like the system I used for a while: individual files are compressed, and have a bit of code inserted at the start to decompress them when called . It did work . It saved disk space (partly by taking out all the zeroed buffer blocks stored in . exe files) and the decompression was fast enough to not lose the space and disk reading speed advantages . I found the real solution was to be ruthless with what was on my big disks (20 and 40 MB) . ;) If it had been in the OS I might have continued to use it, but it was a pain having to compress new versions of files after compilations . So the XP compression might be relatively safe . But a bigger disk is a much better idea . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 461952 | 2006-06-10 21:31:00 | There is Acroread which is the Adobe reader for Linux. The rest however (if supported as Im unsure if MSWORKS formats are supported in Linux) will need to be new Linux applications Open office 2 will open msworks files, mine does, some formatting tiding is requiried though |
beama (111) | ||
| 461953 | 2006-07-15 06:52:00 | I too used DRDOs ... I've still got the manuals, and installation disks(5.25"). MS tried to do the same, but managed to upset a lot of people. They started by stealing the code from another company, who sued them. And won. Thus there is no DOS 6.0. How come I have an unoponed OEM MS Dos 6.0 box? en.wikipedia.org | Bonez (10505) | ||
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