griz

Greetings. just wondering if this look right to you guys or not. I wanted to have the x-mouse function where I can hover over a window activate it, but not bring it to the front. The ease of access cpl only lets you bring the activate and bring to front. I could not get powertoys for xp to work despite having read instructions on the net on how to do this. I also tried tweak ui for win2k. This one let me change a few settings but didn't seem to have an effect on the X-mouse function. Why I don't know. For example show menu delay worked in the 2k tweakui. After reading the sample chapter describing the registry setting on microsofts website, I treid to modify it myself. So far it works with no side effects. here is the change i made. I dont know what the rest of the numbers do. "UserPreferencesMask"=hex:01,01,02,01,12,00,00,00. I I know either the first or second 01's do the trick. But The rest got modified by my hackery and trial and error. Does anyone know what the rest of the numbers do? at any rate this may be handy for someone else who wants the same feature. Thanks all griz

Hello People, Thanks for all your replies. I had never heard of what jaclaz said replacing the 2k boot files with the ones from xp. I will check out the link from travis0 to check the shared memory deal. I am still a bit unsure as to which OS I will use. I know I can tweak, trim, and nlite xp to death to make it faster and use less memory. But as someone mentioned I can do the same to 2k. I seemed to me that xp seemed to be more responsive in opening explorer windows and browsing directories with lots of files. Again, I say it seemed that way, it could just be me. I definately want to keep the 32bit icon support and even though the revolution pack for 2k works pretty good, there are a few glitches. I would like to get my hands on a copy of the windows fundamentals version of xp just to try it out. As someone may have mentioned, its probably just regular xp with stuff took out kinda like it's been nlited. Thanks again for all the replies. I'll let you guys know what happens. Right now, working in xp with the apps mentioned running in the background Autocad 2006 with Survcadd works pretty good as long as I'm working with relatively small files. I would like to try the same in 2k and when I get time I might do that. I just hate going through all the riga-ma-rore of re-installing all my apps. griz

Hello everyone I have been testing and distro hopping for ever and I really would like to settle down on one. To start here is a list of the hardware in my pc which is 7 years old. I love linux and the applications available for it, but I have some old games I want to play and I need to run a version of autocad with survcadd. This rules out linux for me. I have used windows xp with sp2 slipstreamed and w2k with sp4 slipstreamed. Both will run my applications, but I want maximum performance from my older hardware expecially since I will be using it for some gaming(emulation, NFS series, and other open source games), Cadwork(autocad 2006 seems to run well with survcadd 2006 and toolpac), other everyday stuff like ripping and encoding dvd's, editing pics etc. P3-733 384MB RAM 80 GB 7200RPM 2GB cache drive NV GF4 MX 440 DVD+-RW CD-RW I love linux and the applications available for it, but I have some old games I want to play and I need to run a version of autocad with survcadd. This rules out linux for me. I have used windows xp with sp2 slipstreamed and w2k with sp4 slipstreamed. Both will run my applications, but I want maximum performance from my older hardware expecially since I will be using it for some gaming(emulation, NFS series, and other open source games), Cadwork(autocad 2006 seems to run well with survcadd 2006 and toolpac), other everyday stuff like ripping and encoding dvd's, editing pics etc. I have googled and read forums, benchmarks, tests, and tweaks until I am sick. Right now I am running windows xp sp2. with bbclean for a shell, and windows classic theme. I want my puter to look good too. I have used the revolutions pack for 2k with success for 32bit icon support. Programs I usually keep running in the background include: Privoxy, samurize, kerio personal firewall 2.1.5, volumouse, and jtk(joy to key). What do you guys suggest for my os? 2ksp4 or xp sp2? I want the best performance, but I also want my os and apps to look good. I can't understand why programs seem to use more memory in xp than in 2k. For examply bbclean(blackbox) uses around 18mb in xp. I am certain task manager wont show nearly as much for that app in 2k. I understand that xp manages memory differently and I have heard that unused ram is wasted ram. I am thinking that xp probably allocates more for performance until something else needs it Any suggestions on anything will be much appreciated. griz