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Old April 19th 12, 11:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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And I have fixed DST with tzedit, back when I was running Win2K.


How long did you run Windows 2000, Paul? I ran it a lot between 2000
to 2006. Then for a few days in 2009. And now I am running it again.
I am surprised how many modern applications it still can run. It
would have been nice if Microsoft allowed IE7 to run on Windows
2000. But there are other browsers besides IE. ;-)

I'm using Windows 2000 once again on this machine, because XP has
high DPCs for some reason. It seems related to the WiFi driver. But
Windows 2000 is using the same driver and it is ok there. Go figure.

And somebody came out with a patch to fix DST for older Windows
versions including Windows 2000. That is what I used.


I still use Win2K for maintenance (as part of dual boot), but I don't
run it regularly. It's not a good environment for testing games now,
because of the game installer check for the OS version.

Win2K and WinXP are really close when it comes to binary
compatibility, and for a period when they overlapped, you could expect
any program written for one to work with the other. It took some extra
effort on Microsoft's part, like putting a few extra things in
DirectX, to spoil that on purpose. For a while, I was patching out OS
checks in a game installer with a hex editor, but that doesn't always
work.


I haven't run any games on Windows 2000 since around 2004. As I run them
under XP since then. And I think today I discovered that Windows 2000 is
very poor at multimedia while XP is very solid as a rock even on the
same machines. I suspected this from Windows 2000, but I never did a
test on the same low CPU powered hardware before.

The solution for the browser, is to run something else.


Yes I use Firefox, although I don't like it. At least it runs under
Windows 2000 though.

For the Wifi, all I can suggest is reviewing any settings in Device
Manager, such as perhaps interrupt consolidation. But that won't help
if the Wifi is currently idle, that would be more for constant packet
transfer, where you wanted less processor overhead. Some Wifi have
their own processor in the MAC chip, and that offers an opportunity to
do more without interrupting the host. I think it was put there, so
you could do things like Wake On LAN while the computer sleeps (Wifi
continues to run).


Asus website was worthless for newer WiFi drivers and they haven't had
anything for the EeePC 700 series for many years now. Atheros also I
can't find any drivers there either for the AR5007EG WiFi (or any
drivers period). Although Google list newer drivers, most of the sites
want you to install a driver update utility which I rather not.

I did find a newer one that works much better. Now the DPCs are half as
heavy for about 6 seconds per minute (the other 54 seconds it is
perfect). Before it could hit twice as high and hog the CPU for minutes
or even hours at a time. And trying to do anything at this state takes
forever. I really should dump those Atheros WiFi cards and get something
that actually works well. Although it is very usable right now, although
it could be better. ;-)

--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2


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