School computers

andrew247 · 12-11-2005, 01:41 PM

At school, the library has computers which are designed to run on Windows 98 (the have a sticker on the side), but have Windows XP Professional running on them...and the school wonders why they take 20 mins to start up

JOKERz · 12-12-2005, 01:04 AM

what about the computer specification??
Can u tell us??

kcmandava · 12-12-2005, 09:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrew247

At school, the library has computers which are designed to run on Windows 98 (the have a sticker on the side), but have Windows XP Professional running on them...and the school wonders why they take 20 mins to start up

Yeah the technical specs would be more helpful if you please

Vimialp · 12-12-2005, 12:36 PM

my computer takes 5mins to start up and shutdown, but thats only because the startup dll has been stuffed to the brim. <-- XP bug

on a service pack 3?

andrew247 · 12-12-2005, 01:00 PM

I'll find the specs out next time I'm on it

computermann24 · 12-20-2005, 12:11 AM

Our school did tht too! They had XP SP2 Installed on 233MHz with 64MB Ram. Somebody Lit 2 of them on fire because they were sooo slow! These ones take 10mins to boot, 20mins to log on, and youll be lucky to do anything on it and then 20mins to log off. The network Administrator says that Windows 2000 Is too old for the network!

sirlaguna · 12-20-2005, 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by computermann24

Our school did tht too! They had XP SP2 Installed on 233MHz with 64MB Ram. Somebody Lit 2 of them on fire because they were sooo slow! These ones take 10mins to boot, 20mins to log on, and youll be lucky to do anything on it and then 20mins to log off. The network Administrator says that Windows 2000 Is too old for the network!

Yeah some of our classrooms have XP Pro on them though the computers were designed for Windows 98 there OK for speed though they always have something wrong with them hardly any of them will boot up properly.

Though the computers that are designed for Windows XP are fine!

zima · 12-20-2005, 03:00 AM

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Originally Posted by computermann24

Our school did tht too! They had XP SP2 Installed on 233MHz with 64MB Ram. Somebody Lit 2 of them on fire because they were sooo slow! These ones take 10mins to boot, 20mins to log on, and youll be lucky to do anything on it and then 20mins to log off. The network Administrator says that Windows 2000 Is too old for the network!

Then I'd suggest you'll know which of your peers has mother/father that is administering some large, important network and tell her/him about it. I'd guess that school board will believe her/him how a big idiot is current school admin - Windows 2000 is a superb OS and perfectly capable of serving such role. Heck, even Windows NT4 could do it...

iseededpeepl · 12-27-2005, 10:32 PM

My schools is running it's entire server and internet network on Windows 2000 and Mac OS 10. They don't seem to have any problems. If the system administrator is too dumb to know that 2000 will do the job fine, then, he's just stupid. But did you think that possibly it is because all of the virus protection programs for 2000 are out dated? Or maybe they just want to make the school look ahead of the times....

Vimialp · 12-28-2005, 12:27 PM

my school has the best computer systems in the country (australia). All XP pro SP2 and all p4's, no t to mension that for every 2 people there is 1.5 computers.

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JOKERz Master Googler Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Grave Posts: 558 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	what about the computer specification?? Can u tell us??

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Vimialp Master Googler Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 512 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	my computer takes 5mins to start up and shutdown, but thats only because the startup dll has been stuffed to the brim. <-- XP bug on a service pack 3?

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andrew247 Google Guru Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: c:\GoogleCommunity Posts: 3,386 Thanks: 3 Thanked 13 Times in 13 Posts	I'll find the specs out next time I'm on it

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computermann24 Googler Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Nelson, New Zealand Posts: 94 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Our school did tht too! They had XP SP2 Installed on 233MHz with 64MB Ram. Somebody Lit 2 of them on fire because they were sooo slow! These ones take 10mins to boot, 20mins to log on, and youll be lucky to do anything on it and then 20mins to log off. The network Administrator says that Windows 2000 Is too old for the network!

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iseededpeepl Noogle Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada eh? eh? eh? Posts: 22 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	My schools is running it's entire server and internet network on Windows 2000 and Mac OS 10. They don't seem to have any problems. If the system administrator is too dumb to know that 2000 will do the job fine, then, he's just stupid. But did you think that possibly it is because all of the virus protection programs for 2000 are out dated? Or maybe they just want to make the school look ahead of the times....

12-28-2005, 12:27 PM	#10 (permalink)
Vimialp Master Googler Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 512 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	my school has the best computer systems in the country (australia). All XP pro SP2 and all p4's, no t to mension that for every 2 people there is 1.5 computers.

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