Oh, so slow

Saturday, February 7, 2004

I finally got the Longhorn and Whidbey DVD from Microsoft! It only took them 2,5 months - yay ;)

Anyway, installing VPC went smooth, but MY GOD how slow the Longhorn build is! I knew it was slow from all the reports, blog posts and articles some of you had submitted, but this is hurting my stomage :o Perhaps I installed the wrong ISO? I installed the file LH_USA_4051_X86CHK_PRO.ISO - is that the right one? I wish the readme could have been just a bit more informative... guess I'll have to dig around the longhorn sites out there and see what I find. Can anyone be so kind and tell me if that's the right one? Perhaps I installed the build with a gazillion debug-lines in it, instead of the build with just a million debug-lines... ;)

My box has a 2 GHz pentium and 512MB memory, I gave VPC half of it, and I know it might need more, but still... well, I guess I will have to take it. Besides, once you've set your eyes on that desktop clock...you...can't...take...your...eys...off... eeeeeekkkkk!!!

5 Comments

Was there a LH_USA_4051_X86RET_PRO.ISO or LH_USA_4051_X86FRE_PRO.ISO ? If so, you probably want one of those (preferable in the order listed).

foo - Saturday, February 7, 2004 6:32:00 PM

512 MB is too small for the Longhorn 4051. Get a gig of memory or disable WinFS services.

Wesner Moise - Saturday, February 7, 2004 6:53:00 PM

I couldn't bear running LH in VPC, so I got an inexpensive machine for that purpose, and now it runs as fast or faster than XP. I've got a 2.6Ghz HT P4, a gig of RAM, and an ATI Radeon 9600 PRO vid card. Don't stint on the video card, since that will also make a big difference in LH.

G. Andrew Duthie - Saturday, February 7, 2004 6:57:00 PM

Hmm, Ok, I'll try to get me a separate box to run LH on. There's more than a few things in Whidbey that I want to try out.

Johan Danforth - Saturday, February 7, 2004 7:06:00 PM

Try LH_USA_4051_X86RET_PRO.ISO. CHK stands for checked which is a basically a debug build.

bar - Saturday, February 7, 2004 11:12:00 PM

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