Just my 2 cents worth

[eXistenZ]

Just my 2 cents worth.
Tried XP
It may be stable, pretty to look at and have lots of new features
but it's overburdened with menus and configurations...I hated it.
Within 2 hours of of exploring it I began to seriously miss good old
2K.
I formatted and restored a Ghost image of 2K and feel back at home.

Others may disagree...

eXistenZ

 

[Galen]

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Just my 2 cents worth.
Tried XP
It may be stable, pretty to look at and have lots of new features
but it's overburdened with menus and configurations...I hated it.
Within 2 hours of of exploring it I began to seriously miss good old
2K.
I formatted and restored a Ghost image of 2K and feel back at home.

Others may disagree...

eXistenZ

It is my opinion that the two hours that you gave yourself to try the
operating system was an unfair trial. How many hours have you put in to
learning Win2k? I should think that you'd give it a longer trial than two
hours. In two hours you haven't even had time enough to scratch the surface
of the OSes capability.

It's also my opinion that 2k is a great OS as well. Menus and configurations
can all be changed and you can make XP look just like 2k if you'd wanted. I
like XP due to the additional features and I think that, way back when, I
was happiest when I didn't actually have to download a single driver. I was
pretty happy with that and while I do enjoy 2k I am much more impressed with
XP and have been pretty much since it was released. The start time is a
great deal faster as well as the time to turn the PC off but that's not
really a factor unless you're rebooting. The startup time is what makes a
great deal of difference to me.

I did grab tlist.exe from 2k and add it to my copy of XP so that I could
actually figure out what the svchost.exe files were that were running. I've
disabled some of the services that I didn't need as well, that too can be
done with 2k and will help with system performance if you don't need them.

On the other hand I've installed Server 2k3 and found that I didn't like
that a great deal. Perhaps it's just that we're stuck in a rut where we have
our favorite operating system and have no desire to change so long as
there's no pressing need to change? I also know people who favor the 9x
architecture and a few lonely souls who insist that Windows ME is the
operating system for them. I guess it's all about what makes you happiest,
what suits your needs the best, and what you can tollerate.

Cheers,

Galen
--

"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me
the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am
in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial
stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for
mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes

 

[eXistenZ]

You are right about the meager 2 hours I gave XP.
I guess I have become so accustomed to 2K that any
change seems daunting. At 62 years of age my inherent conservatism
is stronger than ever...

At least I got rid of WinME years ago.

Thanks for your comments~
eXistenZ

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[RWN]

"...did grab tlist.exe from 2k and add it to my copy of XP so that I could
actually figure out what the svchost.exe files were that were running."

Galen;
What is this?
I have w2kPro but can't find any reference to it - sounds like something I'd be interested
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[Galen]

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Galen;
What is this?
I have w2kPro but can't find any reference to it - sounds like
something I'd be interested in

Click this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q250320/

There's more switches than just the -s switch that can be used. In fact
there's quite a bit that you can do with it? Play around with it, it's
probably one of the neatest features that's in Win2k and it's very much a
working/useful utility in XP as well. It will identify what is actually
calling the svchost.exe file that you see in your running processes. I've
used it in the past to diagnose file names for deletion (eventually through
script or .dat file) for various "programs" of dubious character. I haven't
used it in quite a while but it's rather enjoyable and very effective.

Basically, on this particular computer, it's actually sitting in the
C:\Documents and Settings\*******\ (where the asterisk is the user name)
folder as that is where I ended up putting it so that I could run it
immediately from CMD prompt. I imagine that the setup would be identical for
2k...

How's it work? Grab your support.cab file, extract it, place it in said
folder, start > run > type in tlist or tlist.exe and pound on the enter key
until something nifty happens.

*plays with it for a minute*

tlist **

Where the ** try -s.. Try -t...

Now, want to get really interesting results and find a lot of information
out? Go ahead and type: "tlist -svchost.exe" (or any other process I suppose
but the interesting ones are the svchost.exe files and that was the topic I
suppose) and it will give you all the information that you want to know
about the files and the files that are being called. You can, if you really
want, type in tlist ***** and where the ****** is just put in the number of
the process (the number all the way on the left before the name in the
original tlist results.

That should keep you busy for a few minutes

Cheers,

Galen

--

"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me
the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am
in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial
stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for
mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes