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>weird behavior, and other glitches. The people with good experiences
>say they installed it on a fresh Win2k or sometimes even on Win98 and
>everything is fine. The people with problems usually say they've
>installed it on a fresh Win2k too.
>
>Those of you who have solid TS2k's, any idea HOW you did it? I'm
>sure there are a lot of people who'd love to know.
Well, I've reinstalled TS2k on Win2k more times than I want to remember
over the last year, and I'd say in general, the MOST important thing is
to keep to an absolute minimum what you install on your machine.
Every added app is something else that can screw up your stability..
particularly oddball (no offence mb) 3rd party apps; internet speeders,
downloader tools, virus checkers, firewalls etc etc. Only install what you
-really- need.
Also, get the latest drivers of everything (screen, sound, network, etc),
and once it's all working, do NOT muck with it.
I've had machines that went from stable to unusable simply because I
mucked about with changing screen sizes etc. Some of these 3rd party
drivers are VERY badly written. If it works, and its stable, for your own
sanity, leave it -well- alone :)
Now, things are pretty good, but it took me a few goes (and lots of
pain). I have an absolute minimum of apps, I don't touch the drivers,
and I'm happy. Everything else goes on a different machine. It's worth
forking out for another machine just for personal sanity..
Si
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