It appears there is still some Windows 2000 stuff on there. Although in this particular case, the only support should be:

After thinking about it, I don't foresee them turning off the validation servers for at least XP Pro any time soon - to many corporations are on XP and they will not be upgrading because they have to rebuild a machine, nor will they upgrade on Microsoft's whim.

Less to do with memory than CPU and bus architecture. We have a desktop with Vista and a laptop. Each with the same memory. There's a marked difference in performance. Vista seems to have issues with mobile-optimized architecture.

Interesting. My old roommate has Vista on a desktop with no issues either. But he also has a ton of memory in there.

Though it still seems the only people I know who don't have issues with Vista are people who are tech savy.

Bear and I, after a month or so of giving Vista a go on his new laptop, voted with our feet.

At the expense of blowing away some of the (small) proprietary apps, we installed XP...the Acer Aspire 5720 laptop now tows the line, we can get stable drivers, and most importantly, we don't have to deal with the inherent paranoia that is Vista.

One day, it is my express wish that some company will develop an Operating Sytem that doesn't think it should be "center stage" at all times, and keeps out of our face so that we can actually be productive.

But it probably won't be a Microsoft product, or in my lifetime.

Love and hugs,

The Stoat XXX.

I just hate the fact that games I have installed on my compy (or old favorites) WILL NOT RUN AT ALL on Vista. Gamespot did a feature on that a while back, most games totally bit it in Vista. Sucks. I'll be on XP till my current compy explodes, or until a stable 64-bit OS becomes the norm.

I guess I'm just pretty adaptable. And yeah, as for being tech savy, it does help that I know how to disable most of the gee-whiz features/over-protective-security-comfirmations in Vista. But to be honest, I feel that way any time I borrow someone's laptop with OSX.

I know Vista's got some big holes, and I'm on the edge of dumping it from the laptop. But I'm actually finding myself very attached to some of the finer points (ginormous thumbnail previews,the start search box.

And at least it's stable (not that XP wasn't).

Hell, everyone should just take a moment and be thankful it's not ME.

Dear Cherny,

This may or may not help you: I have installed an MS product called Virtual PC that allows you to install any operating system inside a "sandbox". I have successfully run MS-DOS programs from the '80's with it no problemo. You can even share folders with the sandbox and your actual OS for file access.

Love and hugs,

The Stoat XXX.

Besides my roommates computer (that I didn't do much other than use the internet with) my only experience with it was trying to get BEs machine to run faster. It's a pretty OS, but I still prefer XP. Maybe if I had a chance to customize and remove the babysitting features I'd feel different.

My next machine will be a Mac.

They did... It was called O/S2 Warp. :D


(And talk about a cult.... Mac-Heads are nothing compared to O/S2 fanatics!)