Windows XP added cached credentials, so you didn't spend what seemed like infinity waiting to get to your desktop after entering your credentials when there was no DC on the network.
Whilst Win2k was nicer from a GUI PoV, WinNT 3.5.1 and WinNT 4 delivered on the stability PoV. Win2k didn't really add anything to that. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 9 March 2012 10:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts? Yup, I'm an idiot. Ignore me on the shell thing. I was thinking... well I'm not really sure. I still stand by Win2k being the cat's meow tho' :) -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 8:48 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts? > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Steven M. Caesare > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> IIRC, the new shell was introduced with NT 4.0, or maybe some kind > >> of > > option pack to same. > > > > That was an alpha/beta level "shell preview", and not released code. > > I used it.. it was buggy in several aspects, although it got better > > over time. I don't recall that it ever was _REELASED_ for NT4.0. You > > actually could run it on 3.51. > > Okay, I just checked, and according to Wikipedia, NT 4.0 came with > the "Win > 95 style" shell out-of-the-box: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NT_4.0#Overview > > >> I thought CSC didn't show up until NT 5.1 (XP)? > > > > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742423.aspx > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offline_files#Offline_Files > > I stand corrected. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
