Getting kind of crowded!

[Bare Foot Kid]

I wonder how many boot entries one could have, anyone have any idea?


Sorry for the IR flash, I still haven't taken time to learn how to disable it.




Later :shock: Ted

 

[windows7user]

Lol, that pic reminds me of HAL. As for the number of entries, I guess you could have a ton. Would be pretty irritating I guess having to scroll through each one.

 

[Digger]

any reason why you have that ancient 32bit XP on there Ted?

 

[Mark]

LOL, yeah I'm happy with the 2 for now, just Windows 7 and Vista.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

any reason why you have that ancient 32bit XP on there Ted?

Aww, it's not hurting anything being there, besides, sometime I need a good laugh so I boot into XP for a while.












Later Ted

 

[Digger]

Aww, it's not hurting anything being there, besides, sometime I need a good laugh so I boot into XP for a while.


Later Ted

I just booted there myself, first time in a month. Side by side, atleast compared with the beta, XP booted faster to logon screen, and about equal as far as loading the desktop, given 7 gadgets and so on. Not done by stopwatch, but by mental burn in made by using 7 exclusively for about the past month. Yet to get the RC going... key not working

 

[SIW2]

Hi Digger,

It took me two goes - the connection to M$ isn't the best.

 

[Digger]

Hi Digger,

It took me two goes - the connection to M$ isn't the best.

not speaking about the activation.. just before startup, after name, pcname

 

[Digger]

Hi Digger,

It took me two goes - the connection to M$ isn't the best.

i have too much going on... need a vacation /me thinks.....

.... user error... nuff said [/reporting]

 

[Chappy]

Ted, I've had 9 OS's at one time, it's only really limited by the space you have.

Actually, at one time back in 03 when I was still working in the anti-malware field, I had 2 W95's, 2 W98's, 2 W2K, 3 XP, and another 6 or thereabouts in VM...heheh. I had one of each OS used as strictly isolated clean installs that I would install an unknown malware (or suspected malware) and they were all monitored for every change made. Those would be reinstalled immediately after it was no longer needed to monitor that variant. The others would have certain config changes made and then the malware would be installed and tested on that for other certain behaviors like port sniffing them to see what/where they wanted to contact.

Then the VM's for any real nasty that needed to be completely sandboxed and abused, and the rest for my use.
I tell ya, I got tired of installing OS's after years of that...

@ Digger - I'm actually finding the opposite, I find 7 to be really fast to a working desktop even with gadgets (4), AppLauncher, Weather (default one), Calendar and one dual CPU/RAM monitor. Vista was a horrible Dawg with any gadgets running on startup...up to 2 minutes after the Welcome screen started, almost enough time to make coffee
I think they got it fixed with 7 now. At least for me anyway

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Chappy.


Thanks, that's very informative; I'm not sure I would enjoy that many installs, though it would be different as part of an avocation. I have done a whole lot of installs since this started in October but I'm having a good time. It may be a while before MS does anything like this again, I'm very glad I'm getting to be a part of it.

Thanks again!












Later Ted

 

[SIW2]

Lol Ted,

You will be doing it all again in 2011/12 with Windows 8.

I reckon that will be the last full scale o/s release.

After that, it's unfortunately a tiny o/s to take you straight into a browser - then almost everything will be done online. Not looking forward to that.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Lol Ted,

You will be doing it all again in 2011/12 with Windows 8.

I reckon that will be the last full scale o/s release.

After that, it's unfortunately a tiny o/s to take you straight into a browser - then almost everything will be done online. Not looking forward to that.

Hello SIW2.

I've been hearing bits here and there about Windows 8, I'm looking foreword to it.

As to not needing an OS to get to the net, this ASUS board has ExpressGate that will go straight to the net from the BIOS though I'm sure you know more about it than I, as I haven't had the time or the inclination to experiment with it. Though it seems as a life without an OS will be very boring to say the least.


Later Ted