Forum: General XP issues or comments
December 7th 10, 12:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 2
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Control panel applets
OK, thanks. I guessed this after reading about Security Policy changes and
hardware differences that affect the Power Options applet. Based on the
policies and hardware in place, what is shown in...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 9th 10, 11:32 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 22
Views: 230
Windows XP
Agreed. I do understand the business model...but only to a point. Couldn't
MS still keep selling XP licenses in perpetuity (or at least until the
gain/cost ratio turns negative)? A lot of very new...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 9th 10, 09:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 22
Views: 230
Windows XP
Thats exactly the problem - we have (at least in SP2) a great OS, working
well on older hardware...the hardware's still fine, but our software
supplier is refusing to support let alone sell us new...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 9th 10, 08:52 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 17
Views: 258
Single or multi-core?
Our application is multi-threaded, does that mean the in-built Windows Task
Scheduler will correctly spread the threads over the cores? To be sure, the
main thread is the most CPU-intensive (doing...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 9th 10, 05:30 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 22
Views: 230
Windows XP
Windows XP is still thriving in businesses (OEMs have, and exercise in huge
volume, the right to install Windows XP until 2014, MS might be co-erced
into extending this a few years down the line)....
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 9th 10, 05:23 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 17
Views: 258
Single or multi-core?
If our app is not written to take advantage of multiple cores, is there
anything that can be done to speed it up on a multi-core machine? For
example, Task Manager allows you to set an "Affinity"....
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 9th 10, 05:13 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 17
Views: 258
Single or multi-core?
You guessed right, we haven't (yet) written our code to take advantage of
multiple cores. This is something we'll have to look at.
Thanks for the comments. I take your point about the AMD / Intel...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 9th 10, 04:27 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 17
Views: 258
Single or multi-core?
Thanks for that comment. That was our initial feeling too, but something
worries me slightly: when I'm simulating loads of images through the
application and check Windows Task Manager (which shows...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 9th 10, 04:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 17
Views: 258
Single or multi-core?
If we have an industrial application (only one process the user needs to
interact with) that is extremally CPU-hungry (doing very high speed
numerical analysis of images) which machine would we be...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 9th 10, 04:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 22
Views: 230
Windows XP
As an example, our company *only* uses Windows XP. We tried Vista and
immediately rejected it. We do not wish to move to Win7 but will be forced
eventually to make the jump. We are considering...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
November 9th 10, 03:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 1
Views: 306
Multi-processor code or single processor ?
Our company is busy looking at going for one of two options:
* Intel single core Pentium 4 @ 3.60 GHz
* Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.40GHz
for an industrial application.
On paper the latter sounds like...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
October 7th 10, 02:46 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 1
Views: 332
COM port not opening
I'm trying to get access to a COM Port using this code:
HANDLE hCom = CreateFile("COM1",
GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE,
0,
NULL,
OPEN_EXISTING,
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL |...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
October 2nd 10, 12:47 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 2
Views: 323
Wine emulation on Linux
Does anyone have any experience of using hardware with drivers written for
Windows on the Wine emulator on Linux?
Thanks in advance,
Alain
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
April 13th 10, 03:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 18
Views: 852
Insert button on keyboard
Thanks hadn't spotted that option in Word before! Unfortunately, I've just
tried it and it doesn't work! When I press "Insert" and "OVR" is displayed,
it types over the next character like usual...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
April 13th 10, 03:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 18
Views: 852
Insert button on keyboard
Thanks hadn't spotted that option in Word before! Unfortunately, I've just
tried it and it doesn't work! When I press "Insert" and "OVR" is displayed,
it types over the next character like usual...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 14th 10, 01:33 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 3
Views: 173
Quicklaunch Toolbar
I have a way around this which may be of interest:
* I have 5 icons in the QL, 4 commonly used ones and one which shows a
folder. In this folder, I put all the other shortcuts I don't use as...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
March 11th 10, 11:09 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 12
Views: 588
Enable / disable hardware at startup
I've got a wireless network adaptor that blue screens Windows XP SP3 if it
is enabled at startup. If I start up in Safe Mode, disable the device, then
restart normally, then re-enble the device it...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
March 11th 10, 11:09 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 0
Views: 117
Enable / disable hardware at startup
I've got a wireless network adaptor that blue screens Windows XP SP3 if it
is enabled at startup. If I start up in Safe Mode, disable the device, then
restart normally, then re-enble the device it...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 4th 10, 03:36 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 282
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 4th 10, 03:36 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 282
Windows and Internet Explorer "Favorites"
Silly comment. Its spelt "Alain" in France (my origins), and variously
Allen, Allan and Alan. Granted "Alan" is probably the most common spelling
on average.
"Terry R." ...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 2nd 10, 11:23 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 282
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 2nd 10, 04:59 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 282
Windows and Internet Explorer "Favorites"
This has been bugging for a while now. Its spelt wrong! The only place
anywhere in the world I could find where anybody spelt it like that (without
the "u") was in Peurto Rico. Weird that Microsoft...
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
March 1st 10, 09:50 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 6
Views: 369
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
March 1st 10, 09:50 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 6
Views: 369
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP
February 28th 10, 04:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 6
Views: 369
Change of disk from FAT32 to NTFS
Hi,
Running Windows XP Home, SP3. I understand that NTFS is more efficient than
FAT32 (faster, some nice features). My home computer is only a 60GB disk,
with two partitions. I don't remember the...
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