From: Colgrove, George (George.Colgrove_at_state.vt.us)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 11:09:31 EST
My favorite incompatibility is Roxio CD-Burner Drivers. Since Micro$oft and
Roxio (fm Adaptec) got together to put a VERY stripped down version of CD
Burning technology in WinXP, all earlier Drivers fail, even Win2K's! You
got to go on line and buy their $99 software at half price! I recently saw
they have a basic version for free, but still....
I did successfully get a Lexmark Win2K driver to work. I did get a warning,
but I just ignored it, and it worked fine. What was nice was that I bought
a digital camera. I plugged it in via the USB port, and it recognized it
right off the bat. No drivers needed!
Geo
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Ray Bayles [mailto:canyonlands_at_theriver.com]
|Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:49 AM
|To: Colgrove, George
|Subject: Re: Clean XP pro upgrade install in 770 ED
|
|
|You are probably right about XP SE...
|
|We have had phenomenal luck with Windows 2000 Professional, but only
|on machines 266 or faster... and best on machines 500 MHz or faster...
|so XP should be even better, only so far we haven't had the luck with
|XP we have with 2000 with the two service packs... and more driver
|trouble... you would think that all the 2000 drivers would work on XP
|properly, but they don't always.
|
|
|Sorry I misunderstood you on the 770... and thanks for the hint on
|"Windows Classic" which makes a lot of sense, and I just haven't tried
|it.
|
|
|"Colgrove, George" wrote:
|>
|> I didn't mean to imply that I installed the OS on a 770, I
|probably wouldn't
|> for practical reasons. I would consider doing it for the
|sake of doing it
|> though. I think Micro$oft's minimum threshold is a 233 (?)
|and from my
|> experience their minimum is often too low. I have XP on my
|450MHz AMD
|> Desktop and it is sluggish on startup as well. I also have shutdown
|> problems on my desktop. I made a mistake this time around
|and bought the
|> upgrade without waiting for the "SE" edition. I think there
|are issues with
|> XP that cause it to have problems. I don't think it is the
|ThinkPads. I
|> was using Windows 2000 at a training session in Florida
|(GEOPAK), the one
|> that M$ said didn't crash, well I had to reboot out of three crashes
|> throughout the tree day course! XP is pretty much a pretty
|face on top of
|> 2000, and if you got the home edition it's been stripped. I
|suspect that in
|> about 9-18 months "XP SE" will come out which will be much
|better like 98 SE
|> was over 98.
|>
|> To counter the sluggishness, I turned of the animated menus,
|the mouse and
|> menu shadows and set the interface to "Windows Classic". I
|turned off the
|> wall paper. Basically I stripped off all the bells and
|whistles. Though it
|> is still sluggish compared to Win98, it's not as bad. There
|is also a
|> setting someone told me about that can make loading XP a bit
|faster. I
|> haven't tried it yet, but he said it works.
|>
|> //
|> 1. for faster start Windows XP , start Regedit, find key
|MenuShowDelay
|> ("HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Control Panel / Desktop /
|MenuShowDelay"). Default
|> value is 400 and faster is 0.
|>
|> 2. ID components in your PC.
|> Go to Start > Run > "HWINFO / IU"
|>
|> 3. Add/Remove
|>
|> some programs you can't remove from add/remove
|>
|> got to "INF" folder find file "sysoc.inf". All application
|that have "hide"
|> are not shown in ADD/REMOVE
|> if you like to see it erase Hide but leave ","
|> exempla for game Pinball
|>
|> Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|> Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
|> //
|>
|> About the "twice as fast": This is how the machine feels
|after I do a
|> reinstall every 6 months or so. I also get a lot more
|mileage by using
|> Norton Systemworks 2002. I know their are better choices,
|but it does do a
|> bang-up job getting my machine to work faster and more efficiently.
|>
|> Geo
|>
|> |-----Original Message-----
|> |From: Ray Bayles [mailto:canyonlands_at_theriver.com]
|> |Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:40 AM
|> |To: Colgrove, George
|> |Subject: Re: Clean XP pro upgrade install in 770 ED
|> |
|> |
|> |My three customers who have XP installed on their five 770 ED and X
|> |Thinkpad's all report that XP stalls, or pauses or stops without
|> |warning for a few seconds, intermittently two or three
|times during a
|> |session. They also report occasional shut-down problems. I have not
|> |been able to make that happen while having them in my shop, and I
|> |didn't do the original installs.
|> |
|> |Just wondering if you have ever seen that.
|> |
|> |We have tested all five XP machines against other machines with 98SE
|> |and cannot see significant differences in speed. Actually slower on
|> |startup, but faster on shut down and video or audio
|functions... exact
|> |same speed on Office and database software... faster, slightly on
|> |internet based activity.
|> |
|> |"Twice as fast" would not come close to meeting any of our
|> |experiences.
|> |
|> |Ray
|> |
|> |
|> |"Colgrove, George" wrote:
|> |>
|> |> Actually, I did a clean install of an XP upgrade. All it
|> |did was ask for
|> |> the CD, I put in my 98 disk and the OS installed. Simple.
|> |I tried to do a
|> |> straight upgrade and it got bogged down saying it needed to
|> |go online to get
|> |> more software. Since I really didn't want to do that, I
|> |saved all my files
|> |> to a CD, then reformatted the HDD and installed the
|upgrade fresh. I
|> |> recommend this anyway since you get rid of all your garbage
|> |that Windoze
|> |> likes to collect over time. Windoze is a very messy
|> |operating system and
|> |> very inefficient. I usually do a clean install twice a year
|> |to keep my
|> |> machine running smoothly. I went over a year or so and it
|> |just slowed down
|> |> to a crawl. Reinstalled everything just the same, and it
|> |became almost
|> |> twice as fast.
|> |=
|> |
|
|--
|
|The problems that exist in the world today
|cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
|
| Albert Einstein
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