Windows Neptune!

[gregulator]

Well I posted this over in Op systems so I am sorry to repost but I thought I might find some fellow users in this section... here are my rants and my problem:

it totally ignores any of the other windows versions i had installed. upon installation it had three options, Neptune, 2000, and ME. now when i shutdown there is no restart button and it powers off the computer (which i can't get either of the other two to do properly) so when i power on the computer again it goes right into neptune.. and i must say it is SO FAST. Boots like Win2000 (same screens kinda) but so fast... it can also bring up what you were working on last too, it is really neat (unix or linux probably does this already or something but its new to me). Everything works so far too! Well if anyone has any ideas how to get the boot options, its appreciated. also i searched for a boot.ini file and there doesn't seem to be one... hmmm. there are settings like in Win2k for which OS to boot but it seems to ignore it so far. thanks

and yes I do mean NEPTUNE,not whistler... I know... thats what you get for beta, but it is suprisingly good.

 

[AMB]

I thought that the Neptune project was abandoned

 

[Sword]

Yeah... what is windows neptune...

 

[fkloster]

Neptune? Where the hell have I been? How about some links to some screens shots or better yet, where can I get it...

 

[AndyHui]

The Neptune project is dead.....it was replaced by Whistler.

 

[fkloster]

...and gregulator got Neptune from.... where?



<< and yes I do mean NEPTUNE,not whistler >>

 

[MasterMind]

Does it support SMP and NTFS?

 

[VladTrishkin]

Neptune was ditched because of Whistler. There is a Beta Neptune out. good luck finding it.

 

[AndyHui]

Windows Neptune was supposed to have been the consumer version of Win2K.....the spot where Whistler is currently. At the time Neptune existed, Microsoft was still following a parallel low end and high end developement of Win2K: Neptune for the consumer and Odyssey for the high end. As an extension to the 9x track but based on the NT kernal, Neptune was supposed to include all the fancy stuff that was supposed to go into Millenium, but never made it on time.

Microsoft merged the Neptune and Odyssey projects to for the Whistler project.

 

[Noriaki]

Neptune was junked...
It got replaced by Win ME (*ugh*) for the time being, and they moved onto Whistler for a consumable NT kernel.

I think you're going to have trouble finding help for an OS that is not only beta, but is also no longer in development.

Sorry I can't help you out.

Is neptune cool other than this problem?

 

[gregulator]

yeah i like it so far. like i said the bootup to so freakin fast, and the restoration of open apps is pretty cool. maybe system commander or that type of thing would help...

 

[gregulator]

yessiirreee, good ol system commander does the trick every time... now lets see how Neptune likes DX8 (insert cackle here)!

 

[Sword]

gregulator, would it be possible for us to have this beta version of Neptune ?

 

[AMB]

I'd be interested for testing this on a spare computer, I have had a look at a few web-site, yet no avail

 

[AMB]

I'd be interested for testing this on a spare computer, I have had a look at a few web-site, yet no avail

 

[gregulator]

hit me up with an email