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Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:26 am
by Kieran Huggins
Anyone here using this besides me? I installed it on my laptop about 2 months ago and for the life of me I can't figure out what XP has that this doesn't. The memory management has been awesome (I have 1.25 GB) - no issues with power management on my thinkpad - I've been playing condition zero with full hardware support, all videos and codecs work perfectly.. it even seems to handle hibernation better that XP did.

What I know it's missing:
  • dial-up support
    The welcome screen
    some of the help and support bloat
    windows movie maker and friends
I just don't understand why more people aren't trading in their stock XP for this when it runs faster, better, and seems to support EVERYTHING I've ever thrown at it.... and it takes the same VL Key many of us xp corp users already have and use!

I guess with Vista out now I'm even more convinced that "less is more".

Comments?

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:40 am
by daedalus__
EDIT: Hey, I was thinking about getting XP no-bloat, does it have terminal services client/remote desktop?


Comment:

Daedalus will smoke you in CS. :P :)
CS 1.6 @ cs.camicus.net

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:50 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
Wikipedia.org wrote:Known cons

* Dial-up networking & terminal based connections are not supported
* May have backward compatibility issues with older programs (Windows 98)
* May have problems with old drivers
* OS installation may need skilled technician capabilities
* Installation requires full partition format
Well, I know what's going on my next PC.

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:10 pm
by Kieran Huggins
Daedalus- wrote:EDIT: Hey, I was thinking about getting XP no-bloat, does it have terminal services client/remote desktop?
Yes, yes it does.
Daedalus- wrote:Daedalus will smoke you in CS. :P :)
CS 1.6 @ cs.camicus.net
Yes, yes you would!