suryad

I used nLite and I loaded in the drivers there. For some reason even using the floppy it would not load with my 780i mobo. Once using the nLited image I did not even have to press F6 or anything at all. It did everything on its own. Good luck!

I am quite intrigued about the proposition of running Windows Server 2008 as my workstation OS! Granted Vista got the kernel but from what i have been reading about SP1 its not much to write home about...but 2k8 is a different story.

The GameXP and SafeXP utilities look a bit suspect to me fellas. I could be wrong though. But other than that it is a great list!

I had it set to 512 MB because I remember some apps during install would check if there was a pagefile or not. Being an enterprise application server etc etc I guess when they wrote the code, they didnt trust the OS entirely...and that has just been propagated over time...I would love to be able to disable paging completely since I have 4 gb ram I just dont feel comfortable doing it. Also I have yet to read any benchmarks or articles about advantages of disabling the paging file though it makes sense that if you dont cache to the disk everything will be in RAM and so the system will be faster but I wonder if someone has actual say numbers or benches to prove it. Right now my machine is so fast I cant notice any difference in stuff like this

Yeah I have tried deleting them before but they keep appearing. I guess there must be some entries in the registry that after nLiting and removign the features, those registries still persist....

I guess that guy must have a baaaad experience to be like that!

No, YOU lost access to your 32bit IE, and I'm not sure why (don't speak in generalities when there's no way everyone in the world will install IE7 and have problems with the 32bit browser). And yes, IE7 is 32 and 64bit (otherwise how would you have both on Vista x64?). If you manually do a start > run > c:\program files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe, do you see an iexplore*32.exe in task manager? Looks like it is 32 bit when I try it that way...interesting! So there are no icons to access 64 bit XP in the Start menu for me it looks like...wonder why the divx web player did not work for me...oh well. Update...the Divx web player works! Totally weird!

Fair enough

Yall could be right I am gonna check it out. The reason why I think the IE 7 I am running is 64 bit is because of the version differences between the 32 bit and the 64 bit as I pointed out...and also because one of the apps I use is Oracle's Application server and I cannot log in to it with IE 7 yet I could on my 32 bit machine with IE 7...Firefox does it just fine. Notcing things that used to work in 32 bit and now that dont in 64 is what I based my statements on. But good points everyone. I will look in my task manager and do as you suggested and let yall know.

Interesting. Are you seeing any benefits to using those x64 softwares on x64 OS? I have a handful of x64 apps and I just feel like they are not doing anything extra for me. Are you noticing better memory usage? Faster performance?

I have heard of a few software apps but I think they are trying to sell snake oil. The OS is going to manage the RAM however it deems fittest. There may be some benefits from some registry tweaks that can be done but I am pretty doubtful of that. Bottomline is I dont think so. I can give you an example. I reduced my page file size to 512 mb because of machine specs (see sig). Yesterday I fired up Oracle XE database, Oracle SOA suite, Oracle SQL Developer and Oracle Jdeveloper 10g on my machine and it used up about 2.5 GB of RAM and then it gave me a page file size too smal warning in the system tray area. I dont know fully why it would need a page file but my understanding is maybe the applications themselves need to have a set amount of hard drive space aka page file set aside for them to run optimally. So even though you could try to use a 3rd party tool to maximize RAM usage...its not going to work because individual apps will demand their own pageing file.

I didnt do proper before and after tests...but I definitely feel speed has improved in terms of torrent dloads. Google Talk still refuses to do file transfers at decent speeds.

Same with my system. i have 4 GB and I guess it is a limitation in the system. I guess it does not like allocating 4 gb of hard drive space just for hibernation purposes.....

Instead of doing a rollup I would rather MS put in new fixes, upgrade the kernel or something, make XP leverage multicores a bit better, increase the file system performance, etc etc stuff like that and oh yeah toss in DX 10 as a treat! But then I am using XP x64 so XP 32 really has nothing in common with that OS other than the look....but that wishlist could be applicable to x64.

I just read that MS has reported issues with network, graphics and audio drivers after installing the SP. So their recommendation is to just reinstall the drivers. Have you attempted to reinstall the video drivers after installing the SP? Hope that helps

What do you mean 'this will change with SP1'?

Holy crap! We should sticky this thread for future Vista users like mt so that we can come here and start off with using yalls tweaked session files! Vista taking 1.3 gig of space down from 13gb is amazing!

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061029/royale-noir/ Thats what I am using at the moment. Worked like a charm.

I think when I went to windows update and downloade IE 7, I lost the capability to use IE 32 bit or 64 bit and it is just exclusively 64 bit now. I can watch flash stuff in it. Problem is with divx...the divx web player does not work too well on it. Also there are some intranet related stuff that does nor work too well on it. But I have Firefox 32 bit installed as well to get around all that. Moral of the story is you lose 32 bit browsers if you do Windows Update and upgrade to IE 7. I do not believe there is a 32 bit IE 7 and a 64 bit IE 7. Wehen i go to help and about IE 7 I see the version as 7.0.5730.13 on my 64 bit machine. I se 7.0.5730.11 in my XP 32 bit machine.

Interesting. Wonder why they made SP1 not slipstreamable.

I am sure there are a lot of peolpe out there who still consider Vista to be a downgrade and not XP 64. To be honest there is just no way I would install an OS that takes 14 gb of hard drive space.

I recommend the PC Power and COoling 750W Silencer. I am running my rig on that no issues at all even with some high doses of overclocking. Also you may want to look into getting a crossfire capable ati hd3870 x2. It is faster than a lot of nvidia cards out there.

I have XP 64 bit running no prob. And also drivers are still being developed as far as I am concerned cuz Creative for example came out with XP 64 bit drivers that fixed a lot of issues. And also why would you want all software to be 64 bit when there is no reason for it? I am running jsut about every software in XP 64 bit that is 32 bit and they run just fine.

Great find but in essence I still dont get what that article did. It basically allowed you to move the SX whatever directory? How is moving a directory helping?

Wow to the people who got their images to 500 mb approximately! That is quite amazing! There's hope for Vista yet It would be interesting to see once SP1 is out how it is going to work in terms of size. I am good as long as it all fits on a CD Question to aviv00. Are you using the Windows Server 2008 pretty much as a workstation OS? Or are you leaving the server functionality stuff in tere like Active Directory etc etc?