You're making one huge mistake

Post #6,241 by pwhysall 8/22/01 7:26:14 AM Reply	You're making one huge mistake And that's sticking with WinME. Comparing W2K and WinME is a little like comparing a Lexus and a Trabant. Even shills like me regard it as a useless POS. W2K on a laptop is a much more attractive proposition. -- Peter Shill For Hire
Post #6,245 by wharris2 8/22/01 8:11:32 AM Reply	Ya may be shilling but I can't disagree with that French Zombies are zapping me with lasers!
Post #6,359 by bepatient 8/22/01 3:51:39 PM Reply	Depends... ...because there are still some leftover compatibility issues with some of the games I've tried to use...mostly DirectX crap...I've failed to get some things running on W2k. But...since I'm not a big game player...there's no way in hell you would get me to run ME.... Of that family of Windows...98SE is my last...any further moves up will be to 2k or Linux (and have been) You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #6,366 by inthane-chan 8/22/01 4:22:54 PM Reply	You might find this useful. [link\|http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q279/7/92.ASP\|http://support.micr...279/7/92.ASP] During the development of WinXP, they created a fairly large app compatability layer for WinXP, which they backported to Win2k and stuck in Win2k SP2. It's not enabled by default, but by doing the reghack listed above, it adds a compatability tab to your program's property page. Rather handy. "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #6,403 by static 8/23/01 12:47:29 AM Reply	As I said, it was a bit of an experiment. Leaving WinME in place, that is. One of these days, I'll boot up with RH7.1 just to see what it does. I'm beginning to suspect suspend is upsetting subsequent shutdowns, courtest of something I've installed at some point. Before I first bought the thing, I researched on the 'net reasonably carefully the ramifications of installing Linux. There were several - in decreasing order of importance: the brightness and volume adjustments are software-controlled, the firewire controller is unsupported, the speedstep support is incomplete, the jog controller is non-standard and the Memoryt Stick slot and FDD are both USB. However, RH7.1 supports USB; I can get a program that knows about the jog controller; the speedstep switching may be supported now (haven't checked) and so might the firewire controller, though I don't use it. But the screen control is still a missing piece. I want to find that before I commit to Linux on it. At least I have never had any use for the array of multi-media software the thing comes with, since I don't have any DV or Memory Stick devices. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"

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