which is better?
enterprise um...I forgot the other ones.
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which is better?
enterprise um...I forgot the other ones.
depends what your using it for Enterprise is for a large company or collages, stabdard is for office/homeuse, and web server is good for hosting your website on your own server,
Well somehow the other PC is messed up. It's asking for a password that I never gave it. It won't even go into windows or safe mode. So I thought I would consider windows 2003. I assumed XP pro is for office but a little better than home so is enterprise better than home. I think there are 4 different selections.
what would happen if I stopped installlation of enterprise now? - Just reboot from disk again and choose home this time?
well it would prob restart setup then delte what you already installed, well with win2k3 thiers 5 versions,
1,standard.
2.web server.
3.Enterprise.
4.data center
5.small Business Edtion
Yeah ok which one is best? or should I just put xp pro back in? I also have NT
well the 2k3 isnt really meant for much other then serving, or it could be optimized as a workstation, but it dont have much D3D support, what will it be used for?
It will be used for nothing - lol. It's my sister's and she just left it over here. When she comes here she uses it for email and some browsing. I just wanting to experiment with something different - she'll never notice the difference. But if you say it's not really any good, i'll just stop it and install xp then. it's waiting for me to make a language decision.
XP Pro would probably be the best choice. Server 2003 in any edition is really best used in a server role, but as all have pointed out it can be used in a workstation role. It just isn't optimized for 3d gaming, and has lots of other features that are overkill for most workstation or desktop uses.
Ok back to xp.......hmmm. how about longhorn?
To make life easy install XP Pro. If you want to play around just keep in mind as the others have said that anything that is designed for server use will not do what you expect for Desktop use.
If you have XP Pro on all your machines then you can net work them together and be able to run each computer from one machine. There is some really neat things you can do with Pro to Pro.
After you get board with Pro to Pro then try using a server OS..
IMHO..... :)
I installed pro but the screen resolution is too small so there are nothing but lines going across. I used to work but I can't make a resolution choice without being able to see what i'm doing. The music stopped - what should I do?
Boot up in safe mode and try to install your video drivers. And don't forget, if you want to run Server on this box you can also install VM Ware or Virtual PC and install the OS in there. They run pretty well in that environment as long as you have plenty of memory.
Video drivers? I don't have it on disk. For that PC I just let windows update do it. but I can't this time
What video card is it?
What video card do you have?
You beet me to it rik.......... :mad:
You can download the video drivers from the manufacturer's site. First get the card manufacturer name and the model number. Now, probably you see the lines because the resolution is too high for the monitor. Just boot into safe mode (pressing F8) and lower all the way the resolution. XP will let you go up to 800x600, if that is not enought I can tell you how to go lower than that. It is possible
It's 640x480 - windows update reports 17 critical and only one driver (modem) needed.
Personally I wouldn't bother getting any drivers from the Critical update site. Go to the Manufacturer.
Agreed. MS still tells me my Nvidia card needs updating when I have the latest Forceware drivers straight from the Nvidia!! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by rik
it did not tell me that I need video driver and I did not install any drivers. The only driver it said was modem.
That is what we are trying to tell you. You are using the drivers that Windows itself installed. Could you boot to safe mode? If you did, then definitively is a driver issue, because safe mode usus standard svga drivers. You have to get the card model and download the drivers from the chips manufacturer (ATI, Nvidia, Intel, Sis) Windows doesn't update my drivers at work, because the card I have is a Quadro, but Nvidia always have new drivers for it. Just as an example, the drivers that Windows install for my video card, makes window switching a pain. It takes long time (I read on Nvidia somethig about drawing the window) with the drivers from Nvidia I work fine.
In the last case, send me the computer, I will fix it :D
WA is Washington, right? you could always drive to here. I am in Maryland, just a couple of days away ROAD TRIP!!
Well, It works fine now. No need to go to safe mode. I will check the videol I think it's built in - the PC is a sony vaio.