Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP
Date	2014-03-15 16:52 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
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  Rich <rich@example.com> wrote:
> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> In message <lg0bus$kbi$1@dont-email.me> 
>>   Elmer <efudd@invalid.com> wrote:
>> > On 3/14/2014 2:47 PM, RS Wood wrote:
>> >> On 2014-03-14, Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> >>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:56:33 +0000 (UTC), RS Wood
>> >>> <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Better double check...
>> >>>
>> >>>  Just checked, and guess what? It says "You are NOT running Windows
>> >>>  XP", which is all perfectly true, I'm running Windows 2000 SP4 :-)
>> >> 
>> >> Holy cow, you win!  For shits and giggles in February I decided I'd
>> >> install Windows on a virtual machine so I could play around.  I
>> >> immediately gave up on Win7, even though I use it at work.  WinXP had
>> >> heavy requirements (# of GB for a base install) but I found myself
>> >> wishing I could track down a Win2000 disk, as it was pretty modest.

>> Hmm, what was your issue with Windows 7? IMO it's Microshit's best OS.

> His issue appears to be the size of the VM disk image necessary to host
> the different OSes.  With W7, one must use up at least about 8-10GB of
> disk just to get the OS installed.  With XP the same level of "just
> installed" typically ran about 2-3GB.

Ah. Well that seems like a rather silly objection. I can get 4,000 GB of
disk space for $100, enough for 400+ windows 7 VMs. Pretty sure my Win7
VM is not that large though. I think its more like 4-5GB.

> So about a 3x to 4x increase in disk footprint.  For very little gain
> in a VM context.

Over XP? Sure, but Win7 is a lot more usable than WinXP.

-- 
The night is always old. He'd walked too often down dark streets in the
secret hours and felt the night stretching away, and known in his blood
that while days and kings and empires come and go, the night is always
the same age, always aeons deep. Terrors unfolded in the velvet shadows
and while the nature of the talons may change, the nature of the beast
does not. --Jingo

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How to tell if you're running WinXP RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-14 10:56 +0000
  Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Adrian C <email@here.invalid> - 2014-03-14 11:44 +0000
  Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-14 18:48 +0000
    Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-14 19:47 +0000
      Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-14 21:03 +0100
      Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-14 20:06 +0000
        Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-14 21:19 +0100
          Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-14 22:28 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-15 03:18 +0100
      Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-03-14 20:58 +0000
        Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-16 04:20 +0100
          Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-17 10:35 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-19 22:38 +0100
      Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Elmer <efudd@invalid.com> - 2014-03-14 20:55 -0500
        Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-15 12:41 +0000
          Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-15 14:09 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-15 16:52 +0000
              Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-15 18:10 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-17 10:34 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-17 12:35 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-19 16:31 +0100
          Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-15 14:20 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-15 16:21 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-15 16:54 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-03-15 17:20 +0000
              Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-15 17:32 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-15 18:01 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-15 19:19 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-17 19:18 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-17 19:27 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-17 21:38 +0000
                Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-17 10:33 +0000
            Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-16 12:13 +0100
    Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) - 2014-03-14 15:53 -0400
      Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-14 20:25 +0000
    Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-14 22:26 +0000
      Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-15 00:51 +0000
        Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Scion <a.b@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-20 16:41 +0000

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