Termy
Senior Cook
Old Fuddy Duddy here. but then I can do things.
To start, I liked 98SE, but circumstances dragged me into XP. So I got a very hard to get edition, from back in 2001 but it is the special corporate version. It can do things I had never seen done before. See every time they "upgrade" they take something away.
I do many things with XP, I move the swapfile to its own drive, or close, I install whatever I can on another drive and have most everything saved on the extra drive. The boot drive stays nice and clean.
Once I am done, someone should stop over and see how it runs. everything is like lightning. Immediate.
I have one of the best mobos that can take XP. A Gigabyte GA-880. It is an enhanced reliability board, with even thicker copper on it. Also better caps and all that. It also seems to support the fastest processors that can take XP.
So I lost the disk, but downloaded all the drivers ad will be loading it next week.
So I say this, when I leave that PC, the next morning it will operate exactly like it did the night before. On Win 10 you cannot count on that.
In fact some people cannot use 10. Engineers working on government projects for example. Read the EULA of 10 and you see they have access to your files anytime they want. Well they sign an NDA - Non Disclosure Agreement. If that is with the government it is not hard to get into trouble when people can just take the files. There are some governments that will not allow Windows on their national PCs, and China required the source code so they could properly restrict it. And that was before 10, or even 7.
That's my say.
T
To start, I liked 98SE, but circumstances dragged me into XP. So I got a very hard to get edition, from back in 2001 but it is the special corporate version. It can do things I had never seen done before. See every time they "upgrade" they take something away.
I do many things with XP, I move the swapfile to its own drive, or close, I install whatever I can on another drive and have most everything saved on the extra drive. The boot drive stays nice and clean.
Once I am done, someone should stop over and see how it runs. everything is like lightning. Immediate.
I have one of the best mobos that can take XP. A Gigabyte GA-880. It is an enhanced reliability board, with even thicker copper on it. Also better caps and all that. It also seems to support the fastest processors that can take XP.
So I lost the disk, but downloaded all the drivers ad will be loading it next week.
So I say this, when I leave that PC, the next morning it will operate exactly like it did the night before. On Win 10 you cannot count on that.
In fact some people cannot use 10. Engineers working on government projects for example. Read the EULA of 10 and you see they have access to your files anytime they want. Well they sign an NDA - Non Disclosure Agreement. If that is with the government it is not hard to get into trouble when people can just take the files. There are some governments that will not allow Windows on their national PCs, and China required the source code so they could properly restrict it. And that was before 10, or even 7.
That's my say.
T