[F3t1sh]

and are server updates safe?

 

[Chosen]

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Originally Posted by RADCOM Nice tutorial Chosen I posted it on my other of my forums and gave you due props, hope you don't mind? Cheers.

No problem! Glad to be of help. This is a thread for the people by the people!

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Originally Posted by F3t1sh I tried Company of Heros and it sadly didn't work.

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Wow i'm glad to see so much intrest in this, can't believe I didn't see the new posts

. As I get more info ill be throwing it up on post #1 thanks for everyones support!

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and are server updates safe?

Of course they are. They are essential!

 

[nyder]

I have no problems benchmarking before & afters when I get myself take care of. Just need to get some DVD's and clear off my harddrives. I will try to test the "low cal" also, providing I find it.

I've been considering working on my own stripped down XP for gaming. It wasn't anything I ever planned on sharing really, was just planning on doing it for myself. Most people don't just have a "gaming" computer, they use their computer for everything, so I didn't figure a demand for something like that would be that great. Otherwise I would hear nonstop complaints about services and programs not there/working.

I wonder how much better games would run if they actually ran on an OS made just for gaming. I just wonder how much bloat windows OS adds on top. (just wondering, not asking, rhetorical ya, that the word!)

 

[F3t1sh]

2Moons doesn't work even in winxp compatibility mode. Bummer.

 

[Chipp]

BF2 nags me that it has only been tested on 32-bit XP, but it installs and runs fine.

I'll have a few hours of free time later today for some serious benchies, so we'll see how things turn out.

BTW, this thread has been stuck.

 

[Chosen]

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Originally Posted by Chipp BF2 nags me that it has only been tested on 32-bit XP, but it installs and runs fine. I'll have a few hours of free time later today for some serious benchies, so we'll see how things turn out. BTW, this thread has been stuck.

Yeah it gave me that prompt too. Thanks for the stick!

 

[nyder]

Good news for the EQ2 players, apparently EQ2 works just fine under 2k3. =)

 

[Chosen]

Windows toolkit added to first post! Heres a list of whats included. (sorry for the length)
Here -->>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

Free server 180 day trial added to post #1

The following tools are provided:
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Acctinfo.dll (documented in Readme.htm) Adlb.exe: Active Directory Load Balancing Tool Admx.msi: ADM File Parser Atmarp.exe: Windows ATM ARP Server Information Tool Atmlane.exe: Windows ATM LAN Emulation Client Information Autoexnt.exe: AutoExNT Service Cdburn.exe: ISO CD-ROM Burner Tool Checkrepl.vbs: Check Replication Chklnks.exe: Link Check Wizard Chknic.exe: Network Interface Card Compliance Tool for Network Load Balancing Cleanspl.exe: Spooler Cleaner Clearmem.exe: Clear Memory Clusdiag.msi: Cluster Diagnostics and Verification Tool Clusfileport.dll: Cluster Print File Port Clusterrecovery.exe: Server Cluster Recovery Utility Cmdhere.inf: Command Here Cmgetcer.dll: Connection Manager Certificate Deployment Tool Compress.exe: Compress Files Confdisk.exe: Disk Configuration Tool Consume.exe: Memory Consumers Tool Creatfil.exe: Create File Csccmd.exe: Client-Side Caching Command-Line Options Custreasonedit.exe: Custom Reason Editor (documented in Readme.htm) Delprof.exe: User Profile Deletion Utility Dh.exe: Display Heap Diskraid.exe: RAID Configuration Tool Diskuse.exe: User Disk Usage Tool Dnsdiag.exe: SMTP DNS Diagnostic Tool (documented in Readme.htm) Dumpfsmos.cmd: Dump FSMO Roles Dvdburn.exe: ISO DVD Burner Tool Empty.exe: Free Working Set Tool Eventcombmt.exe: Check Replication Fcopy.exe: File Copy Utility for Message Queuing Frsflags.vbs Getcm.exe: Connection Manager Profile Update Gpmonitor.exe: Group Policy Monitor Gpotool.exe: Group Policy Objects Hlscan.exe: Hard Link Display Tool Ifilttst.exe: IFilter Test Suite Ifmember.exe: User Membership Tool Inetesc.adm: Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration Iniman.exe: Initialization Files Manipulation Tool Instcm.exe: Install Connection Manager Profile Instsrv.exe: Service Installer Intfiltr.exe: Interrupt Affinity Tool Kerbtray.exe: Kerberos Tray Kernrate.exe: Kernel Profiling Tool Klist.exe: Kerberos List Krt.exe: Certification Authority Key Recovery Lbridge.cmd: L-Bridge Linkd.exe Linkspeed.exe: Link Speed List.exe: List Text File Tool Lockoutstatus.exe: Account Lockout Status (documented in Readme.htm) Logtime.exe Lsreport.exe: Terminal Services Licensing Reporter Lsview.exe: Terminal Services License Server Viewer Mcast.exe: Multicast Packet Tool Memmonitor.exe: Memory Monitor Memtriage.exe: Resource Leak Triage Tool Mibcc.exe: SNMP MIB Compiler Moveuser.exe: Move Users Mscep.dll: Certificate Services Add-on for Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol Nlsinfo.exe: Locale Information Tool Now.exe: STDOUT Current Date and Time Ntimer.exe: Windows Program Timer Ntrights.exe Oh.exe: Open Handles Oleview.exe: OLE/COM Object Viewer Pathman.exe: Path Manager Permcopy.exe: Share Permissions Copy Perms.exe: User File Permissions Tool Pfmon.exe: Page Fault Monitor Pkiview.msc: PKI Health Tool Pmon.exe: Process Resource Monitor Printdriverinfo.exe: Drivers Source Prnadmin.dll: Printer Administration Objects Qgrep.exe Qtcp.exe: QoS Time Stamp Queryad.vbs: Query Active Directory Rassrvmon.exe: RAS Server Monitor Rcontrolad.exe: Active Directory Remote Control Add-On Regini.exe: Registry Change by Script Regview.exe (documented in Readme.htm) Remapkey.exe: Remap Windows Keyboard Layout Robocopy.exe: Robust File Copy Utility Rpccfg.exe: RPC Configuration Tool Rpcdump.exe Rpcping.exe RPing: RPC Connectivity Verification Tool Rqc.exe: Remote Access Quarantine Client Rqs.exe: Remote Access Quarantine Agent Setprinter.exe: Spooler Configuration Tool Showacls.exe Showperf.exe: Performance Data Block Dump Utility Showpriv.exe: Show Privilege Sleep.exe: Batch File Wait Sonar.exe: FRS Status Viewer Splinfo.exe: Print Spooler Information Srvany.exe: Applications as Services Utility Srvcheck.exe: Server Share Check Srvinfo.exe: Remote Server Information Srvmgr.exe: Server Manager Ssdformat.exe: System State Data Formatter Subinacl.exe Tail.exe Tcmon.exe: Traffic Control Monitor Timeit.exe (documented in Readme.htm) Timezone.exe: Daylight Saving Time Update Utility Tsctst.exe: Terminal Server Client License Dump Tool Tsscalling.exe: Terminal Services Scalability Planning Tools Uddicatschemeeditor.exe: UDDI Services Categorization Scheme Editor Uddiconfig.exe: UDDI Services Command-line Configuration Utility Uddidataexport.exe: UDDI Data Export Wizard Usrmgr.exe: User Manager for Domains Vadump.exe: Virtual Address Dump Vfi.exe: Visual File Information Volperf.exe: Shadow Copy Performance Counters Volrest.exe: Shadow Copies for Shared Folders Restore Tool Vrfydsk.exe: Verify Disk Winexit.scr: Windows Exit Screen Saver Winhttpcertcfg.exe: WinHTTP Certificate Configuration Tool Winhttptracecfg.exe: WinHTTP Tracing Facility Configuration Tool Winpolicies.exe: Policy Spy Wins.dll: WINS Replication Network Monitor Parser Wlbs_hb.dll & Wlbs_rc.dll: Windows Load Balancing Server Network Monitor Parsers

 

[RADCOM]

Has anyone here tried Tiny XP in it's various iterations? V5 at the moment. it is a stripped down versionof XP lighning fast install. Not meant for general use but great for gaming.

 

[Chosen]

I'd like to throw that onto a smaller hdd on my crappy comp. Can you post a link to tiny xp?

 

[Chosen]

Did some hemming on post one. A bit easier to read now.

Yay for nearly 2000 views!

 

[Chipp]

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Originally Posted by Chosen Did some hemming on post one. A bit easier to read now. Yay for nearly 2000 views!

And yay for the most stable install of anything I've ever used. I would have never though to try this before this thread, but man, has it worked out great!

BTW, would you mind if this was moved to the general OS forum for more traffic?

 

[Chosen]

Well, it is a server OS but this thread is dedicated go get it working somewhat like xp (workstation wise) so I wouldn't see why not

 

[Chipp]

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Originally Posted by Chosen Well, it is a server OS but this thread is dedicated go get it working somewhat like xp (workstation wise) so I wouldn't see why not

Done.

 

[Chosen]

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Originally Posted by Chipp Done.

Thanks!

 

[Chosen]

Some more cleanup. Yay, colors! + a bump I suppose

 

[Chipp]

Funny that you picked today to bump this.

I mucked some things up trying to revert to "default" icons, and as a result had to run a repair install. Now that it's mostly fresh again, I've fallen in love with the seed all over again.

 

[Chosen]

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Originally Posted by Chipp Funny that you picked today to bump this. I mucked some things up trying to revert to "default" icons, and as a result had to run a repair install. Now that it's mostly fresh again, I've fallen in love with the seed all over again.

Ouch. Well once I get my "good" PC with server 2003 back up i'll dig up some more info. I feel lost without server

i've been using xp pro for about 3 months now and i'm sick of the lockups

 

[jrs]

I was just wondering what you guys do for anti-virus w/server 2003. I have been running it for over a year. I used to have avg free, but now avg will not install because it doesn't like the fact that I have server 2003......same story with avast. I tried running both of them in compatibility mode for xp also......

~jrs

 

[ELmo1989]

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Originally Posted by Chosen I was lucky enough to get a copy from my schools computer admin for free Oh and server 2003 runs games very well. But if the game was made before 2001 it most likely wont work.

Isn't a right click feature in xp to tell to run in a certain compatily mode.
That might help you.