Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,alt.comp.periphs.hdd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: HD Tach replacements for Vista, W7, Linux, and Mac OS X? Date: 1 Dec 2011 01:35:22 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: <9jo3uqF6f1U2@mid.individual.net> References: <4ed580e1$0$2908$c3e8da3$2e0018d8@news.astraweb.com> <4ed63225$1@news.bnb-lp.com> X-Trace: individual.net LjrPfyB3tIJACW7uaCWU0g2Y3BjwtsUo4U1OhtnH6xlqU4mA== X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z1fCtq1ECq3e74uWjtchAUqQB1g= User-Agent: tin/1.9.6-20100522 ("Lochruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.38.8 (i686)) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage:92 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:2063 In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Yousuf Khan 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 -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans