Re: [H] Win 7 home ?

2013-08-23 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but isn't Win7 Home the version where it can only access 2 GB of memory, any more than that it ignores? Steve On 8/22/2013 10:44 PM, Christopher Fisk wrote: I use home. No issues with it. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:39 AM, FORC5 fuf...@cox.net wrote: Need to

Re: [H] WTF?

2013-08-23 Thread DSinc
Bryan, You mean that Windows machines just sit there and 'Bark' for little reason? I do not recall this behavior back in Win2K. This is strange. The previous Dell switches never showed this behavior, perhaps because their internal coding ignored 'Broadcast' traffic. I will try to upgrade the

Re: [H] FFL?

2013-08-23 Thread Chris Reeves
I'm in if we get enough -Original Message- From: joeu...@chronic.org joeu...@chronic.org Sent: ‎8/‎22/‎2013 8:27 PM To: Hardware LIST hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] FFL? *crickets* - Original Message - Subject: [H] FFL? From: Joe User joeu...@chronic.org

Re: [H] Win 7 home ?

2013-08-23 Thread FORC5
seem to remember something like that too, thanks. homework afoot fp At 03:11 AM 8/23/2013, Steve Tomporowski Poked the stick with: Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but isn't Win7 Home the version where it can only access 2 GB of memory, any more than that it ignores? Steve On 8/22/2013 10:44 PM,

Re: [H] Win 7 home ?

2013-08-23 Thread James Boswell
Windows 7 Home 64bit can handle 16GB of memory, Windows 7 STARTER is the version that caps out at 2GB On 23 August 2013 14:33, FORC5 fuf...@cox.net wrote: seem to remember something like that too, thanks. homework afoot fp At 03:11 AM 8/23/2013, Steve Tomporowski Poked the stick with:

Re: [H] Win 7 home ?

2013-08-23 Thread FORC5
thanks, that helps. seems like a silly thing to cap fp At 06:36 AM 8/23/2013, James Boswell Poked the stick with: Windows 7 Home 64bit can handle 16GB of memory, Windows 7 STARTER is the version that caps out at 2GB On 23 August 2013 14:33, FORC5 fuf...@cox.net wrote: seem to remember

Re: [H] Win 7 home ?

2013-08-23 Thread James Boswell
This handy chart shows what supports what. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions#Comparison_chart On 23 August 2013 14:47, FORC5 fuf...@cox.net wrote: thanks, that helps. seems like a silly thing to cap fp At 06:36 AM 8/23/2013, James Boswell Poked the stick with: Windows 7

[H] dumb question

2013-08-23 Thread FORC5
Is it possible to upgrade XP 32 bit with XP 64 bit ? without a clean install. fp Date: Friday, August 23rd, 2013 ***Caution, Tagline Below *** **Tallyho** ** You can't judge Egypt by Aida.

Re: [H] dumb question

2013-08-23 Thread DSinc
Yeah. Preach to the choir! LOL! WGA chained one of my PCs yesterday! Ho-hum.. :) Duncan On 08/23/2013 10:33, Brian Weeden wrote: Don't think so. They are completely different code bases. Besides, should be moving off XP anyways. Next April Microsoft stops issuing security

Re: [H] dumb question

2013-08-23 Thread FORC5
I agree completely but for a business customer, built 4 systems, PURCHASED the SW and he is getting WGA messages on two of them. Not had a change to get there and see what is up with that. There are a lot of PPL and businesses I believe will be using XP for a long time to come, I guess as with

Re: [H] dumb question

2013-08-23 Thread James Boswell
Also there is a major shortage of drivers for XP64 bit, it was basically a proof of concept build that got into the wild, pretty much nobody actually bothered to support it. any slightly esoteric hardware (usually printers are the first thing to show it up) and you might as well be running IRIX ;)

Re: [H] dumb question

2013-08-23 Thread Greg Sevart
You cannot run an in-place upgrade from x86 to x64 on any Windows OS. XP was released 11 years ago. At the time extended support stops, they'll have released 4 new versions (Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1) since XP was first GA. I think that's plenty long (too long) to support a client OS without comparing

Re: [H] dumb question

2013-08-23 Thread DSinc
Greg, Whoa! Let's tone down the rhetoric a bit. I'm sure most everyone codes you as an early-adopter and uber-techie. Fine. Perhaps driven by your profession, whatever. I suppose most of our List fits this label in one way or another. Fine. As I recall our traffic since year 2000: XP - works

Re: [H] dumb question

2013-08-23 Thread Eli Allen
XP had general avalibility in October 25, 2001, so almost 12 years ago now Apple goes all the way back to 10.5 http://www.apple.com/support/mac/ Which was released on 26 October 2007 And redhat only goes back 10 years: (7 years for 3 and 4 unless you pay extra)

Re: [H] dumb question

2013-08-23 Thread DSinc
Hi Eli, Long time-little talk to! Do you have any history for my all-time favorite OS - Windows 2000? I ran mine right up to the day before M$ pulled the plug. A very busy day! LOL! Duncan On 08/23/2013 12:48, Eli Allen wrote: XP had general avalibility in October 25, 2001, so almost 12

Re: [H] dumb question

2013-08-23 Thread FORC5
At 09:07 AM 8/23/2013, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with: You cannot run an in-place upgrade from x86 to x64 on any Windows OS. thanks, figured. XP was released 11 years ago. At the time extended support stops, they'll have released 4 new versions (Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1) since XP was first GA.

Re: [H] Devices and Printers Slow - Windows 7

2013-08-23 Thread Lubomír Čabla
Did you try Print Management console? C:\Windows\System32\printmanagement.msc http://techierambles.blogspot.cz/2010/05/how-to-open-printmanagementmsc-for.html http://forum.support.xerox.com/t5/Printing/removal-of-printer-drivers-from-windows-7/td-p/9572 On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Thane