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Re: HD Tach replacements for Vista, W7, Linux, and Mac OS X?

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Subject	Re: HD Tach replacements for Vista, W7, Linux, and Mac OS X?
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 30/11/2011 4:56 AM, Krypsis wrote:
>> On 30/11/2011 12:03 PM, Ed Light wrote:
>>> I run HD Tach, free version in Win 7 by setting it's compatibility to XP.
>>
>> Isn't that option only available in Win 7 Professional or higher?

> You're thinking of XP Mode which is a full XP virtualization session. 
> Compatibility mode just lies to XP applications that it's still running 
> in XP, and fixes up some DLL's and API's to suit -- it's surprising how 
> often this little trick works, don't even need to go with the full 
> virtualization most times.
>        Yousuf Khan

And, as the wine-project shows, sometimes you can even do with
a completely different OS below the API-layer.

Arno

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HD Tach replacements for Vista, W7, Linux, and Mac OS X? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2011-11-29 02:33 -0800
  Re: HD Tach replacements for Vista, W7, Linux, and Mac OS X? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2011-11-29 17:03 -0800
    Re: HD Tach replacements for Vista, W7, Linux, and Mac OS X? Krypsis <krypsis@optusnet.com.au> - 2011-11-30 20:56 +1100
      Re: HD Tach replacements for Vista, W7, Linux, and Mac OS X? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2011-11-30 08:39 -0500
        Re: HD Tach replacements for Vista, W7, Linux, and Mac OS X? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-12-01 01:35 +0000
      Re: HD Tach replacements for Vista, W7, Linux, and Mac OS X? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-12-01 04:57 +1100
      Re: HD Tach replacements for Vista, W7, Linux, and Mac OS X? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2011-11-30 23:27 -0800
    Re: HD Tach replacements for Vista, W7, Linux, and Mac OS X? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2011-12-02 15:28 -0600
      Re: HD Tach replacements for Vista, W7, Linux, and Mac OS X? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2011-12-02 19:03 -0800

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