Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:33:18 +0000 From: barnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] WinXP installation
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 3:50 am, you wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 03:46:48 +0000 > From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: WinXP installation <caveat - I know nothing about XP and propose to know nothing: I'm extrapolating from 2k> > * Pres wrote saying: "Setup.exe does not run in DOS mode. I had to > reinstall Win98SE just to install XP." > > Is this typical? 2k will work either way but really wants smartdrv running, or the file copying is glacial. Sounds like it needs more than 640k to do the bootstrap. Loading a minimum 98 first is not a bad idea, provided you have the cdrom drivers for it. > > * Tom Stangl wrote: "You're running XP on a glacial Libretto and you're > using backgrounds?? That's insane. Backgrounds chew up valuable RAM." True. single colour background, not an image. An image takes up around a meg, twice (once to paint it, once in a buffer while windows and suchlike move. > * drCursor wrote this about tweaking settings to speed up performance: "In > System Properties > Advanced > Performance > Settings... It's the visual > settings like if there is annimation in the menus, if there are drop > shadows, transparencies, etc etc..." Whoever thought they were a cool idea wants taking out to the back forty and reintegrating with the environment. Lose'em. > > If anyone has any suggestions for other tweaks to speed things up, that'd > be very useful. Er, install something other than MS bloatware? > And I've forgotten about CPUIdle, Waterfall, and Neil's favorite tiny CPU > idling software, amnHLT. With the L100 CPU clicked from 166 up to 266, I'm > definatley going to be needing one of those in the heat of the summer. I don't think so - W2K and it's descendents actually have an idle cycle that stops the processor as amnHLT do. Neil ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
