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Jack,
Be aware that in the NT / Win2000 world, products like Safesoft do not work.
If you are looking at NT4, you would be better off going straight to Win2000
Pro as its look and feel is a lot more like Win98. The stability is very
good, especially if you run off from an NTFS formatted disk as many / most
of system errors are actually read/write disk memory errors. Compression
will require more frequent defragmenting (I do it on the weekend and
mid-week) and will run a bit slower than a non compressed disk system, but
you can change this if you don't like it later on from within Win2000. I'd
definately suggest converting disks to NTFS when you to the upgrade, if you
don't do it when you upgrade, I think it is much more difficult to do so at
a later date. Of course if you convert to NTFS, there is no turning back to
Win98 if you want an easy backout.
I would further suggest that you at least partition an additonal drive (at
about 1.5 x physical memory) to host the PageFile as this will greatly help
optimize your system. I run UMDS on a separate partition and find that it
gets very fragmented. Same would be true of the TS4 data files. Size the
data partition at greater than 2 x the data files contained on the partition
as during nightly updates these programs tend to require double the disk
space of the data file to run the update. Moving programs like these to a
separate partition will reduce drive access time and will reduce time
required to defragment. I have a main partition with all my programs on it,
and a data partition which contains my trading programs which collect RT
data, and then a PageFile partition.
HTH,
Patrick White
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----- Original Message -----
From: "William Parks" <husky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: operating sys
I to am switching to win2000 pro instead of NT. Got lots of good feedback
from win2000 users. And you can use Ts4 with win2000 pro.
Regards,
----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Gurke <Ray_Gurke@xxxxxxxxx>
To: John Basarab <jackb@xxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: operating sys
> John... I recently asked the list for some suggestions on hardware and
OS --
> with stability and performance as the main metrics. So far I've gotten
good
> feedback on Windows 2000 Professional. This was for TS2000i, however, so I
> don't know if the same would hold true for TS4.
>
>
> From: John Basarab <jackb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 3:36 PM
> Subject: operating sys
>
>
> > I've just about had it with windoz98 and am considering switching to
> > nt4. Are there any pitfalls to look out for when switching? Am
running
> > ts4.0 with futuresource as a data feed.....tia...jackb in seattle:-)
> >
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