From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Well, the main one was the fact that an audio application that is now
designed to run on a laptop only runs on XP Pro was the main one.  It's a
scaled down version of what's on my two main audio editing systems, and I'm
going to need to be doing some location work, so it's easier to do it in
the same program with external HD recorders.  That of itself was the
reason.

I would have loved to stay on Win2K, but this was a job decision.

Virtually every other system at the office is XPPro, so it's not like I
don't have the "experience" running it.

Sometimes, we have to move forward. .

--
Glenn

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:4204ff49$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> What were the top 3 reasons you felt compelled to move from Win2K??
>
> Maybe something's changed since the last time I tried Object Desktop, but
> I
> found it to really slow down the Win2K machine I tried it on.  That was
> about 2 years ago, and I was using the demo versions of just some of the
> stuff in the full Object Desktop package.  The few I tried slowed things
> down so much, I was afraid to try the whole package.
>
> Gary
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:4204fd89$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Hi all.
>>
>> For various reasons, yesterday I ended up moving my ThinkPad to XP Pro.
>> There were several comeplling reasons for me to abandon my stalwart Win2K
>> install, but in the end, the migration wasn't too bad.  The Upgrade did
> NOT
>> work, but I didn't lose any data at all.
>>
>> One of the fist things though that I missed, was my old vernable Object
>> Desktop, with it's virtual Desktops.  I've really grown accustomed that
>> approach to dealing with multiple apps open.  The version I was running
>> before, on Win2K was a REALLY old, original release, and I'd not kept up
>> with any upgrades or updates.
>>
>> So, last night, the first thing I did when I got the rest of the stuff
> going
>> again, was purchase the latest version.  All I've got to say, is WOW!!  I
>> had already changed XP to the Best Performance option, and it was a bit
>> snappier, but after loading Object Desktop, and applying one of the skins
>> (right now, my XP machine looks like an OSX desktop, and works very much
> the
>> same, it's even snappier.  Whatever they've done in integrating their
>> code
>> into the XP base that allows the skinning, is truly awesome.
>>
>> One of their cool add-ons, Right Click, allows you to add multiple
>> additional items to the RIght Click popup menus.  On the Desktop menu, by
>> default, it adds a Programs flyout, which is a list of all your programs,
>> like the Start/All Programs.  Just a nice quick way to get at stuff.
>>
>> I'm digging into the other stuff today, but just wanted to say that it
> might
>> be worth a look.  I think you can download a demo.  Their price gets you
>> a
>> full year of update/new features as they're added.  Anything you download
>> during that time period, is yours to keep.  They
"system" uses a download
>> manager, to check for latest updates, and handles all the install chores.
>>
>> Anyway, interesting stuff.
>>
>>
>
>

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