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Oh, so slow

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!!!

Posted: Feb 07 2004, 05:53 PM by jdanforth | with 5 comment(s)

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foo said:

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).
# February 7, 2004 1:32 PM

Wesner Moise said:

512 MB is too small for the Longhorn 4051. Get a gig of memory or disable WinFS services.
# February 7, 2004 1:53 PM

G. Andrew Duthie said:

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.
# February 7, 2004 1:57 PM

Johan Danforth said:

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.
# February 7, 2004 2:06 PM

bar said:

Try LH_USA_4051_X86RET_PRO.ISO. CHK stands for checked which is a basically a debug build.
# February 7, 2004 6:12 PM