Dear Jordan
Thanks for your comments on xp v win2000 and
especially the system restore in xp. I have used it and found a
lifesave when things vanish for mysterious reasons. I am not sure
that Microsoft's lack of support has much impact on someone like me who is
not a heavy user of the features in windows. I think that Microsoft
stopped supporting 98se which I am still using on another pc and it has not
affected me at all.
The reason I wondered about a dual boot was that Mendelson of wp fame had
suggested that 98se is the best wndows to run with old dos applications of all
the windows operating systems. I was even thinking of running
dos if that is possible on a dual boot pc
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Subject: Re: Off topic new pc
--- Avrom Fischer mailto:avromf@xxxxxxxx wrote:
or go back to
windows 2000 or dual boot using xp >
and another operating
system.
Avrom,
I'm not much of a Windows person, but my
observations
suggest that a lot of the difference between XP and
W2K is
cosmetic. Simplified (?) ease of use features
and the like. For
example, XP lets you set Restore
Points for the Registry -- to "turn the
clock back" in
case it gets messed up by various mishaps -- whereas
in
2K you'd need an outboard utility program like
CONFIGSAFE to accomplish
this.
Supposedly, XP has some enhanced features for
heavy
multimedia users. If you like XP, then you might as
well
stick with it, as MS support for W2K may not
continue as long. The
new Win OS debut is not far
off. (They earlier announced withdrawal
of support
for W98, but postponed this at least once. W2K has
a
lot of entrenched business users, though, so who knows
?) The
willingness of a Windows OS to tolerate the
existence of an alternate OS on
the same hard drive --
absent some special interventions -- has never
been
that good, and steadily continued to deteriorate. XP. I suggest you don't go
there, if you're seriously
interested in having more than one OS.
This is
particularly true in the case of a laptop, most of
which come
these days with a hidden "Recovery"
partition that is supposed to reflect
what was on the
C:, as delivered. You have to monkey around with
this
whole setup (knowing what you are doing), in order to
effectuate
installing another OS, and post SP2 I'm
told this can get you into a world
of hurt.
I plan to stick with W2K for my Win environment, which
I
only need to run certain programs. I've never
managed to finesse the
display and other issues for
running Xy4 under Win. When I run it
under OS/2, it
needs no special tweaking, doing everything much the
way
it was under DOS.
What would be your other OS ? Real DOS
? Linux ?
Jordan
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