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Subject: Re: how about Slow Cpu's.

Author: Enam

Date: 11:52:06 12/10/05

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On December 10, 2005 at 14:43:40, Jay Urbanski wrote:

>On December 10, 2005 at 13:30:40, Sherry Windsor wrote:
>
>>On December 10, 2005 at 13:24:41, Jay Urbanski wrote:
>>
>>>On December 10, 2005 at 12:54:45, Sherry Windsor wrote:
>>>
>>>>Answer!!!  I am running two operating systems xp pro and x64 pro. Just took me
>>>>30 minutes to set up x64 rybka is running almost twice as fast.
>>>
>>>You don't need partition magic.  In fact, you don't even need two partitions.  I
>>>have a few machines dual booting the same NTFS filesystem.  You just install
>>>into a different directory.
>>
>>
>>?????  Never heard of this before, any documentation i can read up on it?
>
>It's pretty easy.  Boot the Windows CD (you can't run setup.exe from within
>Windows or it will force you to upgrade).  It will detect that there is an
>existing filesystem, choose leave the filesystem intact.  It will also detect
>that there is an existing Windows directory, tell it you want to install into
>another directory, maybe Windows.64.  When you boot, it will give you a boot
>menu to choose which version of Windows to boot.
>
>BTW, if you have an Opteron machine you can improve your memory performance by
>putting /pae in boot.ini on the boot line.



Hi Everyone,

Is it possible to install 64bit windows Xp in a slower machine ?
Thanks,

Regards,
Enam.



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