Re: Mexican XP
- From: DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:20:04 +0100 (CET)
Brian K <brian1951@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:O0bOFB1SHHA.4260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
You are a moron Brian. You have spewed forth almost nothing but garbage
below. You should check your sources and think about not posting here
again until you get all your facts straight.
Let's see you have a Celery XP Pro SP1 platform with 256 Megabytes of
RAM. I see several problems happening or about to happen. Windows XP
Professional Ed. SP1 is coded to be run on a network. Are there other
computers in network with this one or is this a standalone? If it's a
standalone using dial-up to connect with the Internet XP Pro SP1 is
the wrong flavor of Windows for this machine. XP Pro is highly
storage and memory intensive. It may run under this OS, but just
barely.
Now, to this you want to add XP Home Ed. SP2. If it's a full install
disk, you will need to backup pertinent data - Repartition and format
the OS drive and install it from scratch. Then reinstall any resident
applications.
If you have an Update / Upgrade version the Setup software will detect
the resident OS and will refuse to install over top of this existing
OS. If you managed to break this protection, what you would end up is
a totally inoperable OS. Different versions of Windows or other
operating systems for that matter cannot be setup in a mix and match
manner. When an OS Setup program creates a disk partition it is
identified with that operating system only. The law is one OS per
disk partition. If you run multiple partitions you can use more than
one flavor of Windows. I don't think that you would gain that much in
performance.
Add to this, different OS cannot see each other's partitions. Hence
data stored on a Windows XP Pro SP1 partition could not be shared with
an application residing in a second partition.
Languages can always be downloaded and added to an OS via Windows
Update. Therefor whichever you decide to go with you can enhance with
alternate languages to make the OS a little more bi-lingual. But
that's a whole other matter.
There is one other option that I just recalled. If you want to get
SP2 for the XP Pro, you don't have to download it. Someone can
correct me if I am wrong; it is available as an install CD which can
be ordered for the price of shipping. Then the OS can be updated to
SP2 without mucking about with a total install of XP Home SP2.
In order to get a little better performance, I'd look into the
computer's manual. See if there are any options for adding more
memory. See if you can bump up to 512 meg or better still 1G of RAM.
Are animal shelters considered charities offering donors a tax break?
If so maybe someone with sales or fund raising skills can ask the
local CompUSA (CompMexico?), Circuit City, Sears, or Best Buy for a
donation of a more up to date computer? Many pet food companies
donate food to animal shelters here in the US. Maybe one such could
not only donate pet food to the shelter but also cough up some funds
for an Athlon 64 2g mHz based system?
I'm thinking ahead. In the meantime check out Microsoft for that SP2
CD.
.
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