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W2K is not good at handling threads. The stability
seems to have been achieved by extending the
critical sections of the OS code. God help you
if your feed is a little slow and if w2k gets stuck
waiting for a packet to arrive. You can wait forever.
Eric & Patty Weeth wrote:
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> Personally, I would forego the dual boot setup. So far,
> I haven't found anything that doesn't run on Win2k. I've
> even intalled a few games and they perform without
> problems. However, I'd give up all the games for a
> machine that is stable with my trading software and
> MS office programs.
>
> Installed Win2k on 3 machines at my home. Several weeks
> apart so that I could ease into it and ensure myself that
> I would be happy with the new OS.
>
> Had trouble convincing the setup program to delete a
> partition and do a fresh install on one of the machines.
> Finally, allowed it to do an upgrade which led to a dual
> boot situation where it would boot to Win98 or Win2k. Did
> not tolerate that for long. Used a boot floppy with fdisk
> on it to delete partition myself and then set Bios to boot
> from CDrom and install Win2k. Worked like magic. (Of
> course I backed up data files to a network drive before
> deleting the partition.)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piranhas R Us [mailto:piranhasrus@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 4:40 PM
> To: Omega
> Subject: Need help on Win2000 instal
>
> I am in the process of installing Win2000 on a Win ME
> laptop. The setup procedure told me create a partition
> for Win2000 if I want to keep Win ME and have a dual
> boot system. My question is: Do I install TS2000 in
> the same partition where Win2000 is in? In other
> words, can I install TS2000 in C:\program files to
> avoid a large partition for Win2000?
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> =====
> Julian
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Sincerely,
M. Hubey
Dept of Computer Science, Montclair State University
hubeyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey
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