Convert XP to Server

[anilkool]

Had heard earlier that win2000 can be converted to 2000 server with
some registry editing.
Is this applicable for WinXP also? Just a thought.

Thx

 

[HeeroYuy]

Had heard earlier that win2000 can be converted to 2000 server with
some registry editing.
Is this applicable for WinXP also? Just a thought.

Thx

I heard it was applicable to XP.

 

[Saran]

I heard it was applicable to XP.

How is this done?

 

[Kerry Brown]

Had heard earlier that win2000 can be converted to 2000 server with
some registry editing.
Is this applicable for WinXP also? Just a thought.

Thx

System Properties ==> Advanced ==> Performance Settings ==> Advanced ==>
change Processor Scheduling to Background Services and Memory Usage to
System Cache

This will optimize memory and CPU usage for server use. You will take a
performance hit while running programs. It will not get around the ten
connection limit. That is hard coded into XP as it was in 2000 Pro.

Kerry

 

[Brian Cryer]

System Properties ==> Advanced ==> Performance Settings ==> Advanced ==>
change Processor Scheduling to Background Services and Memory Usage to
System Cache

This will optimize memory and CPU usage for server use. You will take a
performance hit while running programs. It will not get around the ten
connection limit. That is hard coded into XP as it was in 2000 Pro.

Kerry

Nor will it give you all the extra applications that come with the server
product.

Brian.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

No, you heard wrong. Windows XP is a workstation operating system.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| Had heard earlier that win2000 can be converted to 2000 server with
| some registry editing.
| Is this applicable for WinXP also? Just a thought.
|
| Thx

 

[Guest]

Go out and purchase Windows Server 2003,
reformat your hard drive, then install. This
is the only way to "convert" Windows XP to
a server operating system.

 

[Gordon]

Go out and purchase Windows Server 2003,
reformat your hard drive, then install. This
is the only way to "convert" Windows XP to
a server operating system.

Rubbish. Downloading and installing most Linux distros will "convert" your
XP system to a Server OS that is considerably superioir to Server 2003 for
NOTHING!

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

FYI, this is a Windows XP newsgroup.
Advocating installing an alternative,
sub-par operating system is unsupported.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| Rubbish. Downloading and installing most Linux distros will "convert" your
| XP system to a Server OS that is considerably superioir to Server 2003 for
| NOTHING!

 

[Gordon]

FYI, this is a Windows XP newsgroup.
Advocating installing an alternative,
sub-par operating system is unsupported.

So that's why Linux has 75% of the Server market because it's "sub-par"?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[Kerry Brown]

So that's why Linux has 75% of the Server market because it's
"sub-par"? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Did you make up this statistic or can you provide proof? A quick googole
search doesn't find one study that puts Linux ahead of Microsoft in Server
OS maket share. Possibly you are talking about web servers? Even there I
couldn't find any statistics close to yours. Linux is certainly a viable
alternative to Windows for servers but making exorbitant, easily proved
wrong statements doesn't help the cause of promoting Linux.

Kerry

 

[Kerry Brown]

Nor will it give you all the extra applications that come with the
server product.

Brian.

Good point. The above procedure would optimize XP for serving files. To
install most other server features like DNS, DHCP, WINS etc would require
3rd party software. In very small workgroups an XP or Win2k box can be
converted to a file server and optimized as above. This will give some of
the advantages of a server such as allowing for physical security, easily
administered backups, etc. It is not recommended except for very small
workgroups i.e. four or five pc's. Beyond that a proper server OS would be
the recommended solution.

Kerry

 

[Kerry Brown]

Rubbish. Downloading and installing most Linux distros will
"convert" your XP system to a Server OS that is considerably
superioir to Server 2003 for NOTHING!

Do you have any experience at setting up and using a server? I have
extensive experience with Novel, Unix, Linux and Windows servers in small
and medium sized networks. They all have advantages and disadvantages. I
would not say one is definitively better than any other. To limit yourself
to one exclusively would be a disservice to yourself and any clients or
employers whose networks you work with.

Kerry

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Linux and Unix combined only have less than 28% market share. That would make
the Windows Server market share at about 75%.

The 2004 IDC server report listed Unix and Linux server sales at 1.48 million
servers worldwide or less than 28% of server sales.

How to turn Windows into Linux
http://fun.drno.de/flash/howto_turn_windows_into_linux.swf

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"Gordon" carelessly wrote:

| So that's why Linux has 75% of the Server market because it's "sub-par"?
| BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[HeeroYuy]

So that's why Linux has 75% of the Server market because it's "sub-par"?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

That stat is bull. Why is it that trolls never do their homework or provide
proof of their claims?

 

[Enkidu]

Did you make up this statistic or can you provide proof? A quick
googole search doesn't find one study that puts Linux ahead of
Microsoft in Server OS maket share. Possibly you are talking about
web servers? Even there I couldn't find any statistics close to
yours. Linux is certainly a viable alternative to Windows for servers
but making exorbitant, easily proved wrong statements doesn't help
the cause of promoting Linux.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html

The second graph shows that for web servers Apache leads IIS
substantially. Approx 70/20.

But this is silly. Please ignore the trolls.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[Enkidu]

FYI, this is a Windows XP newsgroup. Advocating installing an
alternative, sub-par operating system is unsupported.

Carey, as an MVP *and* a Linux/Unix user myself, I think
that you should let such trolls stew in their own
juice.

I, as a Microsoft advocate, do not find Linux/Unix to be
'sub-par'. It is just different. For various reasons I do
use Linux in some situations, just as for some reasons I
use Windows in some situations. Some of those reasons are
technical and others are political.

It is pointless to respond to trolls in the same way that
they post - with inflammatory remarks. It's like pouring petrol
on a fire.

Above is obviously my own opinion and proffered only as such.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[Kerry Brown]

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html

The second graph shows that for web servers Apache leads IIS
substantially. Approx 70/20.

But this is silly. Please ignore the trolls.

Cheers,

Cliff

Thanks for the link. I knew Apache outnumbered IIS but I couldn't find any
statistics about the underlying OS. Apache runs equally as well on Linux,
Windows Server, Unix. FreeBSD etc. I am sure that most of the installs are
on Linux. I was just baiting the troll

Kerry

 

[Saran]

With all do respect, I think calling Linux (or any realatives - UNIX,
*BSD, etc) "sub par" is really fair. For what these OSes are commonly
imployed for, they are anything but "sub par". Hell, if properly
configured, Linux can make a very good desktop system too. Toss in
VMWare. complete with bridged or nat'ed networking and file sharing, you
could have an extreamly rock solid system.

Of course, you could have an XP system running Linux or some other UNIX
variant running in VMWare too.

(Does Virtual PC support UNIX and variants?)

 

[Saran]

It is pointless to respond to trolls in the same way that they post -
with inflammatory remarks. It's like pouring petrol on a fire.

Amen.