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Old Jan 5, 2003, 02:32 AM   #1
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??? Just installed XP-Home Edition.....
EDIT: OK.....sorry...I guess this should have gone in the Operating Systems Forum. I'll probably wake up tomorrow and that's where it will be.
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I'm vaguely familiar with a few things after seeing and using it briefly on my brother-in-law's computer.

Anything I need to know?

So far, just about everything is working fine....if not a bit differently than under 98SE.

I have already run the Updates including SP1.


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PS CompUSA had the upgrade version available today for $79.
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Because this OS is a little more user friedly I'd say just install it and work from there. Once installed though I'd get SP1 and all the updates for it. It's a great OS (I think) and you shouldn't have any problems with it. If you do have some really old game sthey may not work with XP so get familiar with the compatibility option.
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Well,

One thing I'm already noticing is that many of my programs are slower to start up.

I have several shortcut icons on the Desktop and, generally, under 98SE, they would start up almost instantly. Now they're taking several seconds to do so. I'm not going to be happy if this continues.


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what do you have running in the background?
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Old Jan 5, 2003, 02:59 AM Threadstarter Thread Starter   #5
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Not one thing right now.
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You may want to go through and tweak what is running. Remeber that you are no longer using a 18MB kernel anymore... the XP/NT kernel can take up a full 64MB of memory.
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Point me in the right direction then. How would I go about 'tweaking what is running'?

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http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/performance_tweaks.asp that is a good place to start
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Cool beans!!!


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OK....trouble people.....


I disabled a few of those services that were listed to create a 'gaming' machine.

Now, when I try to access the WEB, the Home Page 'flashes' a couple of times and then I get the dreaded, The page cannot be displayed, notice.

I can, however, still run the Windows Update.

I'm on my 98SE machine on the network as of now.

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EDIT: Got it fixed. Just had to find out which setting was scewed.
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