Went back to win 2000 and am a happy camper for the most part. Runs faster especially when editing images and scanning and is running flawlessly after getting the initial bugs out.
-----Original Message----- From: graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Windows "eye candy" was Re: *istD, Muvo-2 and Hitachi 4gb Microdrive The problem I have with having to customize the OS is that when you have to reload it, it can take hours to get it back the way you like it. Wan't so bad when I kept an image on the server, but I don't have a server any more. But trying to use something designed by the advertising department in Redmond is a pain. -- Boros Attila wrote: > Hello brooksdj, > > Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 8:17:55 AM, you wrote: > > bcin> I have XP.Whats this eye candy i can turn > bcin> off.I'd like to see my machine run > bcin> faster<g>My ME > bcin> machines are quicker than my XP one. > > bcin> Dave > > >> Eye candy is something worth looking at. In XP it's not. > >>>Nick Clark wrote: >>> >>> >>>>You can easily turn off the 'eye candy' in XP. Makes it run faster too! > > > > Read "The Elder Geek on Windows XP" http://www.theeldergeek.com/ it is > a great resource page for XP users, there are many good tips about > services which can be disabled to free some resources and make your > machine run faster. It's amazing how many useless sh*t is running on > a default XP install. > > Rule of thumb: Make a partition just for the swap file, and set it to > be fixed size, about 2x or 3x the size of your RAM. It is a shame that > XP 'professional' doesn't have a geniune swap partition, but it can be > tricked. If you have 2 or more hard drives, put the system and the swap on > different drives. This can speed up those memory consuming apps. > > Attila > > > -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com "You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
