Recent content by SGT Lindy

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    what you hate about vista the most

    Your uber laptop probably has a 5400 RPM drive just like your "lessor" laptop. If this is true the HD is the bottleneck for you. Both HD's are basically the same speed. One has undo a 2gig hibernation file the other a smaller one? Hibernation writes your memory contentst to a...
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    Does XP Benefit from Dual-Core Technology ?

    Of course it does. Windows NT 4.0 and above has supported multiple CPU's provided the applications were written to be SMP aware. With XP and Windows 2003 the OS got alot better and spreading the load over mulitple cores. XP and 2003 officially supported Hyperthreading as well. (2000...
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    what you hate about vista the most

    Network copy is crazy slow for me compared to XP, Ubuntu and OS X. I do small business consulting and I take my notebook with me all of the time and many times I copy files to and from my notebook to a clients network/server. Example the other day I was at a clients office. They have a...
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    Houston we have a problem, lets force feed Vista to people

    Being a long time MS product fan....I would have to agree. I know there are people out there that think Vista is great and it works just fine for them but hopefully they did not pay for their copy of Vista....ie it came with a new PC. Vista has some major problems right now. For me this...
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    Windows 2003

    If you have never used VM type of software....virtual pc 2007 is WAY easier to get going than the the free VMware server.
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    Mysteriously High CPU Usage

    Set your Autoupdate service to disable and re-boot. Since Feb there has been a major problem with XP and auto update causing high CPU. Most people that have the problem are using WSUS but lots are not. http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/12009443/m/786004271831/p/1 Or...