On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Gerard Arthus <[email protected]> wrote:
> , you can hack the registry of Windows 7 and actually make it run just as
> fast and stable as XP

Gerry,

Yes you´re right. That´s why I recommended the OP to use "msconfig" to
disable all unneeded apps and services that are not essential if he
wanted to speed up Win7 loading. nLite is good... I´m a registered
user since ´98lite´.

Keep in mind, however, that you cannot do "magic"... and even the
kernel is bigger... ie Win2K was designed to run even on 64MB RAM
machines... that´s why when virtualizing Win2K on VBox I often assign
it 128MB to 256 MBRAM...  and that gives me plenty of functionality
(usually for small development -build win32 versions of some Linux
command line tools via cygwin or MinGW), which works well for me as I
don´t use Microsoft compilers at all.... ).

Unfortunately, even FOSS devs use Microsoft compilers to create win32
apps, so by following the MSVC releases, they jump aboard Microsoft´s
´API planned obsolescence´ and restrict their legacy OS support as
well** (that wouldn´t be the case if they used OpenWatcom
-www.openwatcom.org- whose executables do not end up requiring the
MSVC runtime libs)....

FC
** 
http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/FYI-MinGW-support-of-Win2k-is-also-questionable-td4343420.html
-- 
During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
- George Orwell

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