meh, Vista is more stable than XP in most ways, and it damn sure runs games better. I am a bit biased though, i have written training manuals on it.
“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.” - Norman Thomas, a six time candidate for president for the Socialist Party, 1944
Erik wrote:But I'm told Amazon still has XP for sale..
Thanks for the reminder. I'm still running 2K on all my home PCs. Just placed an order for XP.
Don't get rid of your Win2K disks, it can be installed without a serial number or CD key. XP/2003/Vista can't.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
308Mike wrote:
Don't get rid of your Win2K disks, it can be installed without a serial number or CD key. XP/2003/Vista can't.
Actually it can, but it's a ROYAL PAIN IN THE ASS to do it, and triples your base install time.
Are you talking about making an image using the modified SETUPP.INI file? Come to think of it, I've only tried that with a Corp edition and it didn't work, perhaps with a retail version needing Activation, it might. I don't know, I've never needed to activate Windows.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
