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Thinking of moving on to 2000. I'm sick of the 2000 ME edition. What a memory hog..... What are my pitfalls for 2000 professional? I have read a lot of older posts, but wonder what you read into it with a little more experience... Thanks for sharing, Jack
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Jack, Is this memory hog thing why I am having problems at times on the web? I get a message saying my resources are dangerously low and I have to shut some things down. Sometimes that does not work and it locks up. It is 2000 ME too. Debbie
The downside is that on one computer I had to install three times before it was clean and stable (???). Also older 16-bit programs (like CASMATE) will not run on Win2k.
The upside is it hardly ever crashes, and resources are a thing of the past. EVERYTHING is faster.
------------------ Mark Smith Ampersand Signs & Design EstiMate Sign Estimating Software www.ampweb.com/estimate 1-888-304-3300 Hailing from beautiful Asheville, N.C.
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I have it on 1 computer, and It seems to work well. The look is a little different. I've had it only 1 week and haven't tried installed Corel or Flexi as yet. I still maintain Win95 for my production machine.
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I replied to your e-mail Jack but I'll post the reply here for the benefit of any others that are curious.
quote:I found that there was only one problem with switching to Windows 2000. My webcam manufacturer did not provide drivers for Win 2000 but I knew that going in and bought a newer one.
My Ethernet card for DSL was not affected. If you are planning on using the Windows printer driver from Roland to cut from Corel then you will have to install the Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or your computer will crash intemitently when trying to access that printer driver. Also regarding the printer driver...AND this is very important... You must assign no fill to your objects/text that you want to cut. The Win 2000 driver will cut both the edge of the color AND the actual outline. The color part of the cutting is VERY slow and VERY jagged. What I do is create the objects in color and then duplicate them and assign no fill to the duplicates, but I assign the corresponding colors to the hairline outline instead. Then I cut the duplicates that have no fill. I leave the originals as is for future reference.
Be prepared to have to download new drivers for a lot of your stuff.
I have only used Corel 10 on Win 2000 and it works fine. But I did read in Corel newsgroups that there are some things that had to be worked around for Corel 8 or 9 to install correctly on Win 2000.
Also..I am running an 800 Mhz processor with 512 meg of RAM and Win 2000 DID improve speed and stability. However on my laptop which is 450 mhz and only 192 Meg of RAM, I believe it is slower than Win 98. Win 2000 NEEDS lots of RAM but it uses it very efficiently.
------------------ Dave Grundy AKA "applicator" on mIRC "stickin' sticky stuff to valuable vessels and vehicles!" in Granton, Ontario, Canada 1-519-225-2634 dave.grundy@quadro.net www.quadro.net/~shirley
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Win2k is great, but hold out one more month for Windows XP. Its Win2k's engine, tuned up, and an entirely new and well thought out user interface. In fact, I'm coming to you live right now from a WinXP Pro (RC2) machine. It's been extremely stable, even more so than Win2k if you can believe that. And if any Mac freaks thought OS-X was cool, wait till they see what XP can look like! (its 'skinnable' meaning you can make it look like anything you can dream up, or download free skins others come up with).
The downside to any of these PC upgrades is your hardware. Older hardware just doesnt have the horsepower these new OS's have. The upside is, you can upgrade almost anything for the price of a roll of 50yd. premium vinyl.
As Mark Smith said(a hell of a programmer, by the way) older software will have a tough time running in the pure 32bit OS, but, Microsoft anticipated this and has put in a 'run in Win95 compatibility mode' that is much stronger in XP than 2k. I myself run a dual-boot, which means when the computer starts up you have a choice of running either the older, 16bit OS (in my case, Win98SE) or the new (WinXP).
When XP hits the shelves, you'll see two flavors.. "Home" and "Professional". There's no need to be tempted by the 'pro' box this go around, unless you're networking PC's together. The real guts are the same now, but XP Pro gives you network toys and capabilities, plus the power to run dual processors if you have a machine capable of that.
For some screenshots and free downloads of WinXP goodies, check out :
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got my $20 copy of xp....tried to load it on an empty h/d...cant do that, loaded win95B, then tryed to load XP...got about 1/2 thru and got an error...cant load it now keeps doin same error...what a piece of crap...the best OS is win95B-C, load IE 4.0, will give you 98 look and operatons..with less problems..
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do you letter with one of those little cardboard brushes that came with the Cracker Jacks too?
XP on anything less than a 650mhz Pentium 2 or Athlon is going to suck. You can still run it, you'll just need to turn off all the goodies and run in Classic format.
Microsoft, like most computer game makers, builds things to run on the current high-end of hardware. The idea is can have a shelf life of a 1-2 years as people grow into it. Your beloved Win95-B ran like crap on a 386/16 in 1995 - which is about where anything under a Pentium2-300 would be today in relation to Windows XP.
you think WinXP is a power hog, try loading up the new game "Max Payne" and set it to maximum! chug-chug-chug..go the frame rates.
Time to trade in the ol'flathead and get a new hemi! I'll cut anyone in the sign business a deal on our machines.
------------------ Robb Lowe Hub City Graphics Spartanburg, SC
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Had Win ME....it had all kinds of problems!!! Finally the computer gave up trying and died.......I thought it was a virus, but it was the ME... So, new puter now, Win 98...a lot of ppl are telling me 98 is stable, and if I can run all my stuff with it I am happy to leave it that way for now. Don't know anything about 2000. A
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I dont know why people had so much trouble with WinME. Of the 200 or so machines we sent out last year with it on there, only one came back with an issue. And that issue, was the 4-n-1 driver for the Via chipset that the owner had downloaded and installed a early beta for.. went back to the old one and all was well.
Anyone having major problems with any OS, should look into upgrading their hardware drivers to WinME versions. This includes your video card, sound card, modem, scanner and chipset driver if you're running a Via chipset (any Athlon powered PC more or less).
Windows 98SE became the most stable by way of hardware manufacturers keeping up with it. Windows 2000 and XP will be more stable because Microsoft has taken a firm hand in making sure hardware manufacturers get their stuff together before giving them approval on their drivers this time. 99% of all Windows errors are 3rd party related, Microsoft has taken the heat and the bad rap for this...It would be like signmakers being blamed because the paint went bad. Your stroke is good, but your media sucked. Same idea.
Now if we could just get the sign software makers to give us some decent stuff at a decent price, life would be good!
------------------ Robb Lowe Hub City Graphics Spartanburg, SC
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I had converted from ME to 2000 pro... too many problems, went back to ME. It was more stable but it's not for the faint of heart to install, as it's not very plug-n-play friendly. It doesn't recognize a LOT of hardware. Flexi 6.5 worked ok, except for the font preview. It didn't scroll correctly. (tip here - when you are in the font preview, hit the ALT key and it will scroll correctly for the rest of the session.) Any of the problems by themselves were not too big of a problem, but all the little things added up to too much. I would rather have the occasional lock up with ME. Maybe one day we will have a stable operating system to compete with big bill's montrosities. I remember the dos days when the operating system was not a concern.. I'm not too keen on the XP having to phone home after every hardware change either. I'd like something simple, that doesn't lock up or crash every day so we can get some work done... Oh well, now I got that off my chest. That's my experience with Win 2000.
------------------ Mark Barnhill Vinyl Creations Antioch TN. mark@vinylcreations.net
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I'll just add my little final comment..I am a 57 year old guy who would like to be a computer guru ...but I ain't!
I like win2000. I figured it out without any local help. (Shane French gave me some tips! Thanks Shane!) And it is working fine for me.
Heck! If an old fart like me can figger it out..ANYONE can!
Don't be a REALLY old fart like Old Paint! hehehehehe Livin in the past is a drag!
Does Win3.0 REALLY rule?
------------------ Dave Grundy AKA "applicator" on mIRC "stickin' sticky stuff to valuable vessels and vehicles!" in Granton, Ontario, Canada 1-519-225-2634 dave.grundy@quadro.net www.quadro.net/~shirley
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ok grundy....you a** is mine when you come back down to the SOUTH...hehehehehe. as fer win xp...got it to load finally, had to load win 98 on to h/d 1st...then load XP...well you may be right you need a 600 mgz or greater machine for it to run worth a s***. i got amd 350..128 ram..and it runs slower then nt5 or win 2000(in same computer) got it on another hard drive..(wifes niece works for m/s and travels the u.s. teaching it...)i put this on a 2.1 gig hard drive....and with nothing else but win 98 and XP ON THE H/D i only got 750 megs left...great big OS.... and nothing i see i cant live without in either 98 or 95.....which i run on 2 other h/d's...i have removables..and luv it this way..iam on the 30 gig with win98A....and it runs fine...but have more hic-cups then i do with 95B h/d....well maybe when i get 1.4mhz machine..i might like XP OR ME OR WIN 2000....but i work outa this computer..and i need STABILITY more then bells & whistles...
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oh and i just got email from M/S that RC2 for win XP IS there for me to d/l....another wopping 500 megs of code...and once unpacked will probably be at least another 500 megs...so it will run almost to 1 GIG OPERATING SYSTEM...no thanks....
------------------ joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-944-5060 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND
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