[windows2000] Re: Windows XP Home Edition in a networking environment

  • From: drtester@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:01:30 -0400

In every single conversion to Win2k, the computer was noticeably slower
than 95/98.  Reliability did increase.  However, when Win2k takes a
dump, it's much more drastic than 95/98.



Chris McEvoy wrote:
> 
> We moved some of our clients from 95/98 to 2k and they have found
> performance actually increase (along with reliability).  95/98 may be
> faster on slow machines though.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: drtester@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:drtester@xxxxxxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: 13 August 2002 17:13
> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [windows2000] Re: Windows XP Home Edition in a networking
> environment
> 
> Still running 95 here.  Have to - too much stuff doesn't work right
> under 2k.  It's also a LOT faster!
> 
> Mark Mucher wrote:
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> > Anybody running 98 at work?  :-)
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> > Mark
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> > Joe Shonk wrote:
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> > >It's call XP "Home" for a reason.
> > >
> > >Joe
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Rod Falanga [mailto:rfalanga@xxxxxxx]
> > >Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 7:53 AM
> > >To: Windows 2000 List (E-mail)
> > >Subject: [windows2000] Windows XP Home Edition in a networking=20
> > >environment
> > >
> > >
> > >We've got a small departmental environment.  Windows 2000 Server and=20
> > >Active Directory.  Currently all of our desktop users have Windows=20
> > >2000 Professional on their machines.  Over time we will probably=20
> > >upgrade to Windows XP.  I am thinking about putting XP Home Edition=20
> > >onto the user's PCs and XP Pro onto the developers and system admins=20
> > >PCs.  I'm wondering if that's a reasonable scenario, or would it be=20
> > >better to put XP Pro on all PCs?
> > >
> > >Rod
> > >
> > >
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