Jon Luisada
December 27th 03, 01:27 PM
I have noticed some oddities, such as when I have some stuff open , around
ten smallish msi packages for editing , several notepad files, technet ,
msdn possibly ....the right clicks stop working , or I cant open anythin
else up. I close a couple of notepads and my right click menu comes back!
The machine in question has dual xeon 1.2 gig processors, 256m ram and a
20gig scsi disk. It is laso showing well below max memory and swap file
usage.
On my now ancient 300 p2 , 350m, 40gig ide , but with win2k pro I can open
all sorts of stuff including a virtual machine or two and it keeps on going,
eventually getting a little slow ,but still functioning........
I changed the preformance to bias toward background tasks which seemed to
improve things a little, but still not "right" to my mind.
It doesnt seem to handle the multitasking as smoothly and to the same degree
of isolation as win2k. I quite often start another instance of explorer if
the existing one is waiting to time out on win2k (as I used to do on nt4)
but xp seems to be in the situation that any new instance is affected by the
"frozen" instance i'm working around.There is an almost "pre-nt" feel to the
tasking, feeling more like 95/8/me or even win 3.1!This is apparent when
"killing" an errant process, I often cant in xp, and have to resort to
rebooting!
I dont have any big beef with the OS otherwise, the ability to revert to
"classic" saves a lot ot screen real estate in explorer and it did take an
embarrisingly long time to twig that "show desktop" was the same as
"minimize all windows"! The plug n play seems to have well and truly come of
age, working pretty well seamlesly. Many good things, just a bit retro here
and there!
cheers all
Jon Luisada
"Turbo" > wrote in message
...
>
> OK, first of all, I am kidding!!!! I only wrote the subject line that way
in
> the hopes somebody might actually read this post.
>
> However, my subject line may be true... here's the issue I'm having...
>
> I have 2 computers... 1 running Windows XP Professional and 1 running
> Windows 2000 Professional. One thing I like on the 2000 machine is that I
> can right-click a file and go to the security tab and it shows users &
> permissions. Apparently you can't do that on Windows XP Pro, or I just
don't
> know how to do it. If it's the first reason.... (sarcastically) nice going
> Microsoft.
>
> Also, when I try to access the 2000 machine from the XP machine in "My
> Network Places" it asks for a logon username & password.... but if I try
to
> access the XP machine from my 2000 machine, I don't even need to enter a
> username & password.
>
> It seems to me like Microsoft tried to make XP more user friendly for
people
> who don't know how to use computers but failed in giving it the more
> powerful options that 2000 has.
>
> Who knows, maybe you can "unlock" some of the features I described above
and
> maybe I just don't know how to do it.
>
> Anyway, take care everyone.
>
> - Turbo
>
>
ten smallish msi packages for editing , several notepad files, technet ,
msdn possibly ....the right clicks stop working , or I cant open anythin
else up. I close a couple of notepads and my right click menu comes back!
The machine in question has dual xeon 1.2 gig processors, 256m ram and a
20gig scsi disk. It is laso showing well below max memory and swap file
usage.
On my now ancient 300 p2 , 350m, 40gig ide , but with win2k pro I can open
all sorts of stuff including a virtual machine or two and it keeps on going,
eventually getting a little slow ,but still functioning........
I changed the preformance to bias toward background tasks which seemed to
improve things a little, but still not "right" to my mind.
It doesnt seem to handle the multitasking as smoothly and to the same degree
of isolation as win2k. I quite often start another instance of explorer if
the existing one is waiting to time out on win2k (as I used to do on nt4)
but xp seems to be in the situation that any new instance is affected by the
"frozen" instance i'm working around.There is an almost "pre-nt" feel to the
tasking, feeling more like 95/8/me or even win 3.1!This is apparent when
"killing" an errant process, I often cant in xp, and have to resort to
rebooting!
I dont have any big beef with the OS otherwise, the ability to revert to
"classic" saves a lot ot screen real estate in explorer and it did take an
embarrisingly long time to twig that "show desktop" was the same as
"minimize all windows"! The plug n play seems to have well and truly come of
age, working pretty well seamlesly. Many good things, just a bit retro here
and there!
cheers all
Jon Luisada
"Turbo" > wrote in message
...
>
> OK, first of all, I am kidding!!!! I only wrote the subject line that way
in
> the hopes somebody might actually read this post.
>
> However, my subject line may be true... here's the issue I'm having...
>
> I have 2 computers... 1 running Windows XP Professional and 1 running
> Windows 2000 Professional. One thing I like on the 2000 machine is that I
> can right-click a file and go to the security tab and it shows users &
> permissions. Apparently you can't do that on Windows XP Pro, or I just
don't
> know how to do it. If it's the first reason.... (sarcastically) nice going
> Microsoft.
>
> Also, when I try to access the 2000 machine from the XP machine in "My
> Network Places" it asks for a logon username & password.... but if I try
to
> access the XP machine from my 2000 machine, I don't even need to enter a
> username & password.
>
> It seems to me like Microsoft tried to make XP more user friendly for
people
> who don't know how to use computers but failed in giving it the more
> powerful options that 2000 has.
>
> Who knows, maybe you can "unlock" some of the features I described above
and
> maybe I just don't know how to do it.
>
> Anyway, take care everyone.
>
> - Turbo
>
>