Well I got XP. The Saga.. Tips, Input etc..

[Eric West]

Just kidding, but there's a ton of things I have to transfer.

I like a LOT about this OS, and will have to work at the GUI for a while before I"m used to it, and change it sa I learn how.

One thing I found is that NS 7.1 works perfectly as does GeckoMail an I hope to keep using it. All my old NS folders, Addy Book, Sent, etc will be over here soon too.

File transfer hell for a while....

The 'old' 98SE P4 1.8g Asus533 is right along side it and will soon have it's own monitor/kb/mouse etc. I didn't pop for one of those adapters. Anybody know of a good one?

Had my first freeze, and came out alright. Just trying to do too many things at once and transfer zipped files off a CD and got impatient.

Many questions I'm sure.

None about "tone".



EJL

[Wiz Feinberg]

Eric;
I use a Belkin 2 port KVM switch with built in cables to switch my mouse, keyboard and monitor between two computers. The switch function is activated by double tapping Scroll Lock and hitting the up or down arrow key. It works like a charm. I believe I bought it at Staples, for about $40.

[Eric West]

Wiz. Thanks I think I'll try it.

I really like what I'm finding so far.

Any way to get rid of the startup "Balloons"?

Found a ton of stuff ACDSee, Photoshop 5, and all kinds of things.

Downloaded the HP 6540 USP drivers, no prob, and a TON of stuff yet to do.

Any tips offhand for XP Pro32?

Would I use the standby mode for overnight and away at work, or "hibernation"

Thanks for your help with this.



EJL

[Jon Moen]

This Registry edit required

[Wiz Feinberg]

Eric;
I would use Hibernate overnight. Standby is flaky at best and may hang when you try to wake the computer, or may fail to reinitialize a device, USB port, or startup program that it required. Hibernation saves everything you are doing to a file, then shuts off the computer. When you turn it back on that file is read into your RAM and everything resumes from where you left it.

[Gary Shepherd]

I saw a USB device somewhere online the other day (Sonar forum I think) that connected two computer via their USB ports. So you could transfer files in either direction from one PC to the other at USB speed. Pretty cool.

[Eric West]

I've been told to look for some way to connect the two 98SE/XP puters together. Both have 1394 Firewires too.

I'll sure check it out before I "smoke test" it..



EJL

[Jon Moen]

Can't you just use a crossover cable in the network jacks? Or if you have a router just plug them both into that?

[Jim Peters]

Eric, get "tweak ui" to rid yourself of those nasty ballons. JP

[Eric West]

JP I never thought of that I'll do it right now.



EJL

[Wiz Feinberg]

Eric, get "tweak ui" to rid yourself of those nasty ballons. JP

Eric;
Be sure you get Tweak UI for XP, not the previous version for Windows 9x. There is a whole page of XP Power Toys here.

[Jon Light (deceased)]

Question re: hibernate------is it a complete shutdown/reboot, coming back to whatever you had running before? Or is it a more instant sort of a quickstart? I agree--stand-by mode has always been iffy for me, going back to Win95.

[Wiz Feinberg]

Question re: hibernate------is it a complete shutdown/reboot, coming back to whatever you had running before? Or is it a more instant sort of a quickstart? I agree--stand-by mode has always been iffy for me, going back to Win95.

Eric;
Hibernate is similar to a complete shutdown, with one exception. It stores everything that was in memory at the time you initiate hibernation to a file, which is saved to your hard drive, in the root. When you power on the computer again this special file is read back into RAM and your computer "Resumes" from where it was when you placed it into hibernation. This includes open documents, saved or unsaved, websites will be loaded into the browser tabs, altho not up to date, email messages will re-open, etc, etc. It is like standby, without the flakiness. Furthermore, many computers don't really go into true standby mode (like mine), leaving the fans and CPU running. Hibernation turns everything off, just like hitting the power button does, with the above mentioned differences.

I should mention that there are some programs that may not go gracefully into hibernation and will cause it to fail. If that happens try closing the suspects first, then go into hibernation.

[C. Christofferson]

There's a thing out called a Flash Drive. Its a USB plug on the end of a thing that looks just like a bic lighter for storage and transport of files. Available in different capacities up to over a gig.

[Eric West]

Yes indeed Chris. I have one and it ushered my Zip Drive into the trash bin, never to return. I've got one that's 512 and it's great for bringing albums over to my girlfriend's.

I see that the XP "Network Help" says that I can get a USB Network INferface and it says that I can connect it to another XP, Win2000, or 98SE.

On my way out the door to go shopping.

Thanks, and more to come.

I've already loaded more in two days than I used to have on my old ABIT rigs en todo.

I'm getting a "Generic Win32 problem" in my "socket" connection that causes me to have to reboot, but it's nothing I can't "google down"..

Heading out to Best Buy, and other stops.

What an adventure.

Not like the days of a Windows 95 Bluescreen that would keep me up all night, and end up formatting and trying to reinstall a shoebox full of floppys....

Thanks.

BTW Tweak UI worked GREAT.

EJL

[Eric West]

Oh Baby!

What a day.

Besides deciding to not move to TExas..

I got a Belkin KBVM swapper that had been opened for about 30$ at Best Buy, a geeksquad 1g memstick (that needs an .inf from them for 98SE) and decided to just transfer stuff by CDR. I'm using my old Creative speakers as the back two channele as the speakers swap too. Push button, which I prefer over a Hotkey setup.

I've loaded about 10 gigs of stuff, have INSTANT acess to either system.

I'll be keeping both.

BTW I found that when it installs in XP, NS7.1 changes all the "snm" files so you cant just grab your old NS folders and cram them in your NS that's running in XP.

Also that NS8 no longer has mail, so I'll be keeping it and just cut/pasting important email addys to XP.

What an amazing bunch of stuff.

Thanks, and I"m sure there's more to come.



EJL

[Eric West]

OK a couple things.

I got a GeekSquad USB flash pen, P&P with XP, incompatible with 98SE.

Found a generic USB driver that worked fine, and started using it for transfers from the 98SE machine to the XP.

Also.

Netscape 7.1 Mail Bookmarks.

NS8 does NOT have an email proggy, and I like the GeckoMail.

7.1 does install to XP, BUT if you are planning to just cut and paste your "mail folder" or "snm" files, you'll have a surprise.

XP installs it's own file system in the "default" folders.

WHat you have to do is get your old addy book exported as a *.ldf file to the desktop of the new puter. ( i emailed it to myself) and WHILE composing a new email nessage, chose "Import" and select from ".ldif file). Worked great. Now to try and get all my "sent" and other file folders over. ANd I suppose my "bookmarks". I think they're just an HTML doc anyhow.

One thing at a time.

I'm having a Com port crash of some type once in a while, but I'll deal with that too.

Thanks for any info and I'll share as it develops.

New drivers for the trackball, Cool Edit doesn't work, New USB drivers for the xtLive and it all works great.



EJL

[Eric West]

I think my crash was that there was an unconnected "network device". I disabled it. Back to the "autoconnect" dialog, and no error msg.

Installed Ofc2000 and Cakewalk Music Creator 3.

Lots of stuff. Oh, and Yankee Clipper Clipboard works well too.

EJL

[Eric West]

Well so far I've done a ton of transferring. Mostly through the .5gig sandisk cruzer. Pretty handy.

Also MacAffee AV, Opera, Firefox, and probably TBird mail here in a few.

Never dreamed a computer could do so much so fast.

Belkin switch keeps both of them busy at the same time.

I've tried as many tasks as I could think of on this Dual Core PD, with 2g RAM, and it's more than twice my "old P4 1.8" not a freeze or overflow 1.

Thanks to all and it'll keep coming.

I"m sure I'll get a bluescreen sooner or later.

I never seem to stop til I do..



EJL