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Speed up VirtualPC by using Windows NT 4 Desktop
Authored by: Makosuke on Feb 26, '04 01:08:48PM

I too have used NT4 in VPC, and found it to be reasonaby responsive, all things considered. It is indeed old, nearly useless for gaming, and lacks drivers for a lot of newer stuff, but those things are much less of an issue on VPC than a hardware PC--most games are unplayable anyway, and it's not like you're installing any new (internal) hardware, either.

Most general-purpose applications have a version that runs on NT4, and I'm still using it on several physical machines in a real production environment, without issue. And though it may be technically unsupported, a lot of businesses are still using it, and MS is still releasing patches for severe vulnerabilites.



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Speed up VirtualPC by using Windows NT 4 Desktop
Authored by: terceiro on Feb 26, '04 04:51:59PM

Amen to that. Driver support? Security? Games?! I don't care!

I've got Win98 on VPC right now which I use only occasionally, and then for specific reasons. It's more a utility for me than a viable alternative OS experience. When I want to play with another OS I'll boot into my linux partition.

Happily, I've got a set of NT4 CDs in my desk... I think I'll try upgrading my VPC OS and see if it makes a difference. It honestly hadn't even occured to me that NT4 might be faster than the (in my mind) wimpier Win98. Pretty much anything would be better than what I'm doing right now (which is on a 700 mhz iBook).



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Speed up VirtualPC by using Windows NT 4 Desktop
Authored by: vonleigh on Feb 28, '04 02:08:17AM

I unfortunately have to test websites using WinIE (is it me or are they trying to breaking every standard?).

So I'm wondering, what versions of IE run on nt4?



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