Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 July 2008 17:57:13 Guy Boisvert wrote: > Majority of little companies choose Winblows by "default" thinking that > you just put a server into a closet and forget about it.   The majority of little companies don't even know that there is an option. The one good thing that has come out

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-18 Thread Guy Boisvert
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Rainer Duffner wrote: Guy Boisvert wrote: A discussion about slowliness or not of Winblows SP3 is *SURELY* off topic in the CentOS list! I still don't know how the original poster came with all this in the CentOS list. I mean, for Winblows stuff, i'd post to a Winblows

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 17:19 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Guy Boisvert schrieb: > >> > > This list is not too busy - it's still a bearable volume. But I admit > > I don't read everything. > > > I actually got kicked off a local Linux list for asking something > similar,

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-18 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Rainer Duffner wrote: Guy Boisvert schrieb: A discussion about slowliness or not of Winblows SP3 is *SURELY* off topic in the CentOS list! I still don't know how the original poster came with all this in the CentOS list. I mean, for Winblows stuff, i'd post to a Winblows list first! Beca

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
Guy Boisvert schrieb: A discussion about slowliness or not of Winblows SP3 is *SURELY* off topic in the CentOS list! I still don't know how the original poster came with all this in the CentOS list. I mean, for Winblows stuff, i'd post to a Winblows list first! Because the idiot-density i

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-18 Thread Guy Boisvert
Martyn Hare wrote: This is so barely on topic it's just plain _wrong_, but it's the only thing I can give useful input on based on [bad] experience. That said it's not _that_ offtopic given Xen can run Windows and CentOS includes Xen technology ;-) Then this list could become the list of ab

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-17 Thread Martyn Hare
John R Pierce wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: >> Applying SP3 to my daughter's laptop has killed performance to the >> point of being almost unusable. Restore Points seem to be lost, so I >> can't go back to before it. >> > > I've installed SP3 on dozens of systems and seen no slowdowns. > > > this

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-16 Thread Guy Boisvert
t' Subject: RE: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown? Applying SP3 to my daughter's laptop has killed performance to the point of being almost unusable. Restore Points seem to be lost, so I can't go back to before it. Anne Anne Sp3 doesn't kill performance if applied to a fr

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-16 Thread Milton Calnek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rainer Duffner wrote: | But then, CentOS throws most of its stuff in /usr/bin and /bin, too, so | you can't differentiate between "OS" and applications, either. | | I'd rather have a "base" install and a separate directory with "all the | rest". And

RE: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-16 Thread Dennis McLeod
s ago. (Taking images before major changes, not Clonezilla. I used to use Imagecast...) Dennis > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert - elists > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:59 AM > To: 'CentOS mailing list&#x

RE: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-16 Thread Robert - elists
> > > Applying SP3 to my daughter's laptop has killed performance to the point > of > being almost unusable. Restore Points seem to be lost, so I can't go back > to > before it. > > Anne Anne Sp3 doesn't kill performance if applied to a fresh install before any "other" updates or apps are appl

RE: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-16 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:11 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown? On Wednesday 16 July 2008 02:03:26 MHR wrote: > I know this isn't the right f

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-16 Thread John R Pierce
Anne Wilson wrote: Applying SP3 to my daughter's laptop has killed performance to the point of being almost unusable. Restore Points seem to be lost, so I can't go back to before it. I've installed SP3 on dozens of systems and seen no slowdowns. this is WAY off topic for this list. _

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 16 July 2008 02:03:26 MHR wrote: > I know this isn't the right forum for this (do I ever!), but you-all know > so much about everything I thought I'd ask. > > About two months ago I resurrected my daughter's Compaq laptop (cracked > screen - replaced it) and ran an update on it. It's

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rudi Ahlers schrieb: This isn't the right place, but a bit of help is always welcome :) Windows XP, as with most other Windows' has the irritating habit of pilling up junk in the registry, and other places. My first check is always to check for viruses - update the virus definitions, and scan

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Victor Padro wrote: My old IBM T21 suffered almost the same issues, tried to roll back the updates and even tried to install XP SP3 without any good performance change. I had to reinstall Windows XP... I believe it's a waste of time trying to troubleshoot performance stuff under a multipatche

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-15 Thread Victor Padro
My old IBM T21 suffered almost the same issues, tried to roll back the updates and even tried to install XP SP3 without any good performance change. I had to reinstall Windows XP... I believe it's a waste of time trying to troubleshoot performance stuff under a multipatched old install windows if