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Skriven 2005-01-27 10:31:32 av Gerald Miller (1:342/512)
   Kommentar till text 2600 av Charles Scaglione (1:106/2000.0)
Ärende: I've had it!
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Hello Charles,

    Responding to a post in the WIN95 area:
    On Tuesday January 25 2005 at 12:25,
    Charles Scaglione [1:106/2000] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: I've had it!

 GM>> I installed the Free AVG anti virus program and a lot ot things
 GM>> happened. The first thing I noticed was that the computer started
 GM>> up a lot slower than even my Wfw311 system.  Programs on the 98 box
 GM>> slowed down to a crawl with every keystroke, the mouse would only
 GM>> operate when it felt like it, and a few other annoyances like
 GM>> shutdown stopped working, etc...
 CS> AVG will consume more resources if you allow its control panel to load
 CS> and have it setup to scan when the machine starts.

So I found out, but then, I guess it's my own fault for doing a "blind
install" -- I didn't read anything except the EUL....

 GM>> I went into the Add/Remove Programs applet and removed AVG.  As
 GM>> soon as I did that and rebooted, the system started responding with
 GM>> the vim and vigor of before.
 CS> So then, what are you using for virus protection?

I still have Symantec AV _and_ F-Prot....

[snip]

 GM>> drive and I would like to ask a few questions before I proceed:

 GM>> Is the Windows 2000 Pro software a "Server" version?
 CS> No, but it will allow 10 concurrent connections for a small network or
 CS> home network.

Sounds like I had better dust off my "Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
At a Glance".... <g>

 GM>> Should I partition the 40GB into smaller disk drives?
 CS> That depends.  Are you intending to use NTFS or FAT-32?  A 40 gig
 CS> drive formatted to FAT-32 as one partition will have quite a bit of
 CS> cluster slack whereas using NTFS it will not.

 CS> Nowadays the strategy of placing data on one partition and programs on
 CS> the other is not very realistic.  The majority of programs including
 CS> the data they create will be referred to in the system registry.  And
 CS> the registry will always be on the partition where Win2000 resides.
 CS> Keeping them separate works for 16 bit programs but not for 32 bit.

 CS> Likewise "Program Files", "Documents and Settings", "My Documents",
 CS> and all profile information will default to the partition where
 CS> Win2000 has its information.

Thank you.  Based on the information that you (and others) have kindly
provided, I think I will leave the HDD as a single drive and format it with
NTFS.

I'll keep you up to date on how the new install proceeds, but then again,
I'll likely be back again with more questions.... ;-))

I'm hoping that W2K Pro is not going to be as problematic as W98SE  ???

           Thanks ... Gerald

... Just on the razor's edge of sanity, but not sure which way to lean.
--- GoldED+/DPMI32 v1.1.5-040330 [msg of Thursday January 27 2005]
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