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My biggest swoop on the learning curve for XP was that I couldn't find anything anymore. Having spent years with 9x systems and knowing where every single network setting could be found was very comfortable. I opened up XP for the first time and said "What the hell is this? Apple?"

And now with SP2 the networking stuff for wireless has changed again. Eee-gad.

T

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It's all in the regestry key settings. XP home can do anything that pro does.

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Care to enlighten us? Point us in the right direction?

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Ummmmmm.....No... But it shouldn't be too hard to figure out on your own.

2K is even better, you can regedit it right into 2K server.

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Thanks for the answers! It looks like XP Home Edition is good enough for me, so like you said, I'll only get Professional if the price isn't much different. I'll probably do that when I get a new computer. My current computer is 800 MHz AMD and I think I'll get something faster within the next several months, in time for when SEV comes out. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I'm running Windows ME right now and it doesn't crash too often, maybe couple of times a week as long as I'm careful. One of the annoying things however is that I cannot switch between SEIV and any other program during the AI's turn. If I use ALT-TAB it crashes and have to reboot. Also for some games if I quit, start a game, quit and so on several times it gets slower and slower and eventually it just unexpectedly quits the program and doesn't run anymore. I periodically have to shut down and restart.

I'm considering getting a notebook computer, maybe an IBM Thinkpad for my next machine. It will be useful to get something that's portable.

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That is because the whole win 9x line has really bad memory management. Old blocks are not always cleared properly when programs exit, which leads to high levels of instability.

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High levels of instability lead to BSOD and OS melt downs.

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BSOD and OS melt downs lead to Linux or Mac.

(Let's see how far we can take this! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif )

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Linux and Mac lead to the dumbing down of world consciusness and an alien overthrow of the status quo...

... aw damn... I pimped it.

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/me whaps Turin.