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post #1 of 10
5/13/03 at 6:05pm
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i was wondering if windows 2000 supports Muti prossor?

I have the full version of win 2000 and the upgrade version of xp what should i do

please help me

thanks
-chris
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post #2 of 10
5/13/03 at 6:23pm
Windows 2kPro does support multiprocessors.

I've never used the XP upgrade, does it require you to have it installed or just ask for the other OS cdkey? If someone has done the upgrade I'd like to hear which option it uses? Can you use the upgrade to install to a formatted hard drive or do you have to install the previous OS first then install the XP upgrade. Blech if it's the second option as that would tend to leave tons of orphaned files around.
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post #3 of 10
5/13/03 at 11:10pm
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Originally posted by SirJames
Windows 2kPro does support multiprocessors.

I've never used the XP upgrade, does it require you to have it installed or just ask for the other OS cdkey? If someone has done the upgrade I'd like to hear which option it uses? Can you use the upgrade to install to a formatted hard drive or do you have to install the previous OS first then install the XP upgrade. Blech if it's the second option as that would tend to leave tons of orphaned files around.
You can do a fresh HD install with an upgrade XP CD, it will ask you to insert the media of the previous OS version (I used Win2000 CD the one time I did an upgrade, not sure if Win9x works).

-myrkat
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post #4 of 10
5/14/03 at 1:14pm
Very cool, then I'd say for PROPAGANDHI to go with the fresh XP install instead of using W2k in this case.
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post #5 of 10
5/14/03 at 1:28pm
I wouldn't run Win2K with HT and I don't like Windows upgrades.
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post #6 of 10
5/14/03 at 1:33pm
So Adam :-

Can we just install OS, Do the SP1 and then forget about everything??

I would like Windows Media PLayer 9 but can I just forget about everything else??

I wonder why they call them " Critical Updates "

They should just say :

We are from Microsoft
And we screwed up before
So please install these updates
And we'll screw you up some more
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post #7 of 10
5/14/03 at 4:32pm
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Originally posted by gsferrari
...I wonder why they call them " Critical Updates"...
Oh, it's simple:

They are called Critical Updates because they can leave your computer in a Critical state, usually requiring a reinstall.

Plus, if you didn't install all the updates, too many things might actually work, as third-party programmers adapt to Microsoft's bungling. Therefore, MS must throw another proverbial wrench into the system. It's all about upgrades.

-myrkat
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post #8 of 10
5/14/03 at 5:20pm

ROFL

Ha ha ha ha!!

Next time I am not gonna install any of the updates...just XP Pro and SP1 ought to see me through...

myrkat - did you ever try linux on your system??
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post #9 of 10
5/14/03 at 7:15pm
It sounds like Adam and myrkat both have a good deal of experience with the XP Pro OS upgrade. I would appreciate any advice either of you--or anyone else with upgrade experience--can give.

I am going to buy a Sager 56XX or the potential new 17 incher within the next 8 weeks, and I am unsure about spending the cash on the XP Pro OS. I am a physiology graduate student. So, I will be using the computer to run graphing, statistics, presentation, and word processing programs--usually 4 or 5 programs open at one time. Of course the occasional video game and DVD to pass time during long overnight experiments will be a necessity as well.

Software:
Statistica
Statview
Grapher
Sigmaplot
XP office Pro
endnote
sequencher
and a bunch of analysis software for lab equipment

What I want to know is if I will notice the difference between a clean install of win 2000 with an XP Pro upgrade and a clean install of XP Pro when doing the above metioned stuff. And, if so, what will be the difference?

I started another thread on this topic the other day, and included links to other XP Pro discussion... just to make the point that I have looked around the forum for this type of info.
My XP upgrade thread
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post #10 of 10
5/14/03 at 8:48pm
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Originally posted by gsferrari
...myrkat - did you ever try linux on your system??
Not on my 8887, but I run Mandrake 9.0 on my desktop system (now collecting dust)...
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Originally posted by shmoejoe
...What I want to know is if I will notice the difference between a clean install of win 2000 with an XP Pro upgrade and a clean install of XP Pro when doing the above metioned stuff. And, if so, what will be the difference?...
You PROBABLY will notice a difference. When I did an upgrade install, it "felt" and "seemed" sluggish compared to the systems (similar specs) that I did clean installs on. It was not as bad as a 9x to 2000 upgrade (nightmare, usually); but was not a good feeling, either.

Soon after an upgrade, I went back and re-installed XP fresh... and, indeed it "seemed" and "felt" quicker. Now, I do not know if it was psychological, but I almost NEVER recommend an upgrade to an OS - always a fresh install.

I gathered two things from your post:
1) You are a STUDENT? Get the STUDENT version (i.e. CHEAPER) XP Pro!
2) You are buying/going to buy a laptop, therefore it's a fresh install anyway, get an UPGRADE version of XP Pro if you already own a Win2000 OS CD...

-myrkat
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