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Paul said:JD wrote:
I was referring to running executable programs. That part shouldn't
be different.
Yes, booting could be faster on Win7, due to some of the tricks they use
now. Win2K is especially bad, when used in combination with some AV
products,
and on my old machine, it was about 5 minutes before the machine was
responsive.
That was boot time, plus 100% disk activity until the AV was satisfied.
The AV
was quite greedy - if the AV gets in a "knife fight" due to heuristic
detection
of suspicious activity, the machine locks right up. Now, that's effective
protectionKnowing some innocent utility, and the AV are down there
duking it out, and your keyboard doesn't work any more, is a good
feeling...
Yes, I can see all those components throwing
zeroes and ones at one another
- a digital riot.
I have sorted that one out. My external drive was
too small when I learned
that the space required for the Complete Backup of
Win 7. It was an astonishing
21GB and I had to replace the drive. Now I have
that backup on the external drive.
I will contact Samsung and ask if there would be
any problem putting Win2K on the C:
drive and Win 7 on the D: drive. I have not seen
any trace of the Win 7 OS number, like 5SYR3
1KFZ2, etc
Last night I had the NetBook in a very quiet room
and was astonished at the silence. I think your
suggestion of it having a solid disk is very
probaly true.
I would be using the Win7 only on that NetBook and
I would guess that
there will be times when those drives fail. In
these cases a restoration of
the backup to a new drive would be necessary,
possibly another problem to come.
That recovery partition is one of the reasons I will not be buying
a Dell/HP/Acer/Sony or the like, any time soon. When I bought a
computer for a relative, part of the deal there, was it had to come
with a real install CD. And it did. That is one of the reasons
I did business with the company that I eventually chose, knowing
I wouldn't be getting a recovery partition, and would be getting
a regular installer. I've never had to use it, but if that machine
needs a reinstall, all options will be open. I wouldn't be surprised
to find that machine full of malware by now
I have had many computers in my "IT life." I
bought one around 1983
and it had Windows 1.2, if I remember correctly. I
bought Windows NT
a few years later and in 1999 I bought the best of
all - Win2K
Apart from that first computer, I built all others
I have owned since then.
Over and over I replaced components and very
occasionally the case.
That was by far the lowest-cost route to take. I
always bought good branded
products and never from HP About 5 years ago a
friend, who had an HP machine,
wanted to double the memory. By an odd chance I
had bought the same amount
of non-proprietary (Kingston) memory for my
computer a few weeks before
and the price of it was about 1/3 of HP's quote.
I was surprised that no CD came with the NetBook
and I guess that's M$'s
way of limiting the pirating of the OS. Now I know
that the backup image is
all I have and I'll take this point up with
Samsung, in particular the installation
on another drive.
Have a great weekend Paul, and don't forget to
come to work Monday morning ;-)
JD