S.SubZero

"don't do it as well"? If a CPU loses pretty much anything, it fails. A "burn" of a couple of microns will destroy the CPU. CPUs are solid state; as long as the power being fed to them is healthy and even current, they theoretically should run forever. The operating system gets junked up, that's what causes the problems.

Does iTunes still insist on taking over all associations and installing "helper" apps and other junk I strongly dislike? Infesting my Server2008 install with that doesn't sound very pleasant.

"Passive" cooling means that there's no fan. They stick a big heatsink on it. As far as "best PCI card", that may be true, but it's still a low-end card overall. It does DX10.. What DX10 games would you expect to be playable on this card, at any resolution? Given that your PC has no PCI-E nor AGP slots, it can't be very powerful. You ain't exactly gonna play Crysis on this thing. The money would be better invested in replacing the motherboard with something that has a PCI-E slot.

The user doesn't typically have a choice. The sites they visit tend to run whatever format they want. That being said, it's been years since I've seen a site that used Realmedia format. What's a site that still uses it, that anyone cares about?

MCITP looks like it's more than one test. 70-648 moves from MCSA2003 to MCTS/2008AD and MCTS/2008NetInfra. After that, for MCITP you would need 70-646, PRO: Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator. According to the site I posted, this test isn't ready yet.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/wind...08/default.mspx With Windows Server 2008, the old, reliable "MCSE" and "MCSA" titles are lost. The ground floor certification for Server 2008 is the "MCTS", Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, and there are three MCTS titles available. I will be taking a bootcamp and the tests for this certification next month. I have been tinkering with 2008 for a short time and it looks like it might be a fun class to take. I did Server 2003 MCSE through a bootcamp and it was an interesting experience. The MCTS seems to be the lower tier certification, maybe like the MCSA. They also have "MCITP" which looks like the higher end "Engineer" level certification. Since I am paying out of pocket for my class, I haven't even asked about the MCITP since it will probably be yet another small fortune.

Virtualbox doesn't support 64-bit guests. From what I have seen from VMWare and Hyper-V, they run 64-bit guests but neither of these ran XP64 very well for me. Not enough that I'd really want to use it. I installed Vista 32-bit in Virtualbox and it runs surprisingly well in both XP64 host and OS X host. Actually it has a new switch for PIIX3/PIIX4 virtual disk controllers (for better compatibility with vmdk images with OSs on them) and offers some new virtual network cards for better support with OSs like Vista and OpenSolaris which don't come with a PCNet driver.

That is definitely subjective. 3DMark2006 comes up with similar numbers on my Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop for Vista and Server 2008. Server 2008 feels faster only because the default desktop is always classic, and certain desktop user experiences (ie. superfetch) are by default disabled. If you set Vista up with that desktop and kill the indexing, search and superfetch, it will definitely feel faster. I also saw no real difference in the installation time.

This sub-forum is for Windows XP 64-bit only. If you are talking about 32-bit Windows XP you want the forum above this one.

Did Win2000 even offer the option to lock the bars? I know my Win2K virtual machine doesn't have it, and it kinda caught me off guard too. But it has been years since I used Win2K.

Server Manager -> Configure IE ESC -> Disable (users and/or administrators)

I have seen mention of a BIOS setting that causes similar issues. You may want to look for a memory mapping-related setting.

I just made a nLite'd XP64 SP2 ISO. I included IE7 and just a few of the larger Windows Updates. My test install appears to work fine. However, I get this error in c:\windows\setuperr.log: Error: Setup detected that the system file named [c:\windows\system32\sfcfiles.dll] is not signed properly by Microsoft. This file could not be restored to the correct Microsoft version. Use the SFC utility to verify the integrity of the file. *** I don't see any immediate problems related to this, and even an "sfc /scannow" seems to be harmless. Can I ignore this error?

I don't sit there and run meticulous benchmarks comparing the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of every single application I download. I have not tried the 32-bit versions of apps where the 64-bit version is mature and perfectly usable.

Well, you can check start64.com for some apps. There are more and more being released all the time. I use Firefox 64-bit, Virtualbox 64-bit, 64-bit PDF viewer, 64-bit IRC client (why?), 64-bit binary news downloader, 64-bit bittorrent client, etc. I have Unreal Tournament 2004 64-bit, Farcry 64-bit, there's 64-bit Crysis....

There is absolutely NO way, at all, in any way, to use Flash Player in 64-bit IE. None. In fact there's no way at all to use Flash Player in *ANY* 64-bit browser, on *ANY* 64-bit operating system. So you were using 32-bit IE, and Divx probably broke. Your problem is unique to you.

Your statement of "Half of the programs were in 32-bit" is probably overstated. Otherwise you'd have more than one example, unless your XP64 only came with two applications. Media Player in XP64 is 32-bit. The list of other "only 32-bit" apps in XP64 is pretty small. Internet Explorer comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit varieties, and the default is 32-bit, because of the plugin compatibility. This is a desired thing, you WANT the 32-bit browser to be the default. 64-bit IE can't even watch Flash videos (note: NO 64-bit browser on any platform can view Flash videos). When plugins and compatibilty aren't a problem, it's pretty much all 64-bit. Hyperterminal, Solitaire, Paint.. Even notepad.exe is 64-bit. Go wild opening those 2GB+ text files! Now as far as your statement of "fighting".. what exactly were you fighting? Did XP64 suddenly put on virtual boxing gloves and start throwing punches? I'm confused. Was it drivers? Drivers are always an issue with people, and yeah XP64's driver support isn't exactly at XP32 levels, but there's drivers for lots of things. I personally have a desktop and laptop running XP64, and have drivers for every device on them. Is it applications? XP64's app support is very high, everything I have tried has run, and for the most part any app that doesn't care what Windows it runs on should run. People sometimes bring up 16-bit apps, which XP64 cannot run, but these very old apps should be run on very old versions of Windows anyway. I've probably wasted way too much time typing for what appears to be a "fire and forget" troll post, but for anyone who wanders in here later, please be aware that XP64 is sexy and beautiful and fast and oh so nice.

yes some X86 porgrams will not run on x64 but i have seen where porgrams haved updated to support x64 bit The only apps I know of that don't like running in 64-bit Windows are apps that directly affect parts of the OS, like anti-virus software. Your typical games and other applications will run just fine.

XP64 is built on the Server 2003 x64 codebase, and is in fact little more than a workstation version of Server 2003. You're asking to choose between two of the same things.

I tried Sabayon 3.4 briefly. I installed it, said "wow cool default theme", then loaded the KDE theme configuration, changed some stuff, then couldn't figure out how to get the default theme back. I went on their IRC channel and got the dreaded: "There's no easy way to do that." Deleted the VM and forgot about it.

I like Virtualbox. The guest support is very broad, letting me tinker with all kinds of goofy and vintage operating systems. I currently have OS/2, Solaris 10, Ubuntu, Win2K, OpenStep, Rhapsody DR2, and BeOS as guests. Wacky!

Did you make any attempt to troubleshoot this? I mean if you can't even get XP to install, something is wrong with your computer, plain and simple. I have an Ubuntu virtual machine in Virtualbox but it is my least favorite VM. The interface feels like cheap plastic, things don't seem to match up, and it also has been the least stable VM I've run. I'm unimpressed.

I got that too, and it's silly. They also say though that they are working on a "version for 64-bit Windows" which could mean they will get us 32-bit versions that work, or 64-bit versions which would be sexy. Probably the former ; ;

nLite can also handle the slipstreaming, and it's a 32-bit application. I assume it can integrate RAID drivers also

Does Server 2008 have Superfetch? I was curious since that seems like a desktop thing, and not really something for a server. I'd also be mildly annoyed if my server was taking an extra few hundred megs of RAM for caching desktop apps.