[simpits-tech] Windows Questions

[Nathan Giard]

Hi Steve,

You live in New England, don't you? 

Anyway, here's a good comparison between Home and Pro:

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp

Also, I guess my opinion is a little biased in favor of Win2k since I've
been studying/using for years and have been certified on the Win2k side.
However, I'll use file sharing as an example. Win2k is good to go out of
the box, where on WinXP you have to run the "Networking Wizard" to
facilitate easy access. Either that or you must go into the folder
options and disable "simple file sharing". 

To make a long story short, XP is so full of wizards is drives me nuts.
Maybe that makes Win2k harder to use for some people, but I like the
control.

In any case, this is my opinion, you can do with it what you will. :)

Nathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Bubba [mailto:mysticz28 at swbell.net] 
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 10:40 AM
To: Simulator Cockpit tech list
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Windows Questions


Nathan Giard wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> This is my first post even though I've been lurking for years! But 
> finally here's a subject I can comment on.
>
> XP Home doesn't support SMP,

I could have sworn that I read that it would handle multiple processors.

> and also, is crippled in the networking
> department. It can't be added to a domain.

What exactly do you mean by that? I'm not the best networking guy in the
world, but so far the networking has been much easier to deal with on
XPH than anything before it that I've used at home.

> Any version of XP or Win2k
> will take advantage of the ram you have.

Even ME will do that, but I've heard that XP does have the memory hole
problem and that it doesn't. I have a gig of RAM and a 5 gig partition
on a 2nd drive for the swap file and have had no problems even with over
a month of uptime and lots of starting and stopping big, nasty games,
though I usually reboot once a week just to clean things up.
-- 
Steve
mysticz28 at swbell.net
He who seeks will find, and he who knocks will be let in.