Re: XP Home on a quad?

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Snap !
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416
....that's where I stumbled upon the reference to KB896256 !

regards, Richard

I don't think it made any "improvement" to my D935 but, as I said I thought
I'd stuff it in anway, just in case. I was niggled at the time, perhaps
wrongly, that MS hadn't stuffed it in for me via Windows updates ! ...on
another thread in windowsxp.hardware ....oh ! in here !!! :-
KB896256 / MS LAZINESS !!! 13/08/2007

regards, Richard

....I've forgotten, yet again, how to form a URL to ng/specific post !!


"Paul" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ffjec9$t5t$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
RJK wrote:
...so what was all the fuss about KB896256 backalong ?

...in as many words MS say in this KB that :-
"...you may experience decreased performance ...something to do with
power saving / ACPI...?"

...so I stuffed in the KB896256 patch anyway :-)

regards, Richard


There is a big difference, between the licensing limitations
(which would prevent "excess" processors from registering)
and the OS actually working well :-)

The patches exist, to try to improve the OS support for the
hardware configurations that have arisen since the product
was first put on the drawing table. I'm sure that quad cores
were not upper-most in anyone's minds, when they started work
on that OS.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896256/en-us

By the way, I found another thread on patching for multiple cores,
which might help guide someone who is tuning a new box.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416

Paul


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