XP question

[Genius Gone Insane]

Hey a friend of mine has offered me to use his Office XP disk which supposedly runs faster than your standard Bill "at the" Gates home version of XP. I guess it doesn't have any of that garbage promotional software that comes with XP. Have any of you tried this sort of thing? Will I have any problems running PTLE or plugins? Just an idea here.

 

[mxlinus]

Office XP is not an operating system.

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

Office XP is not an operating system.

Yeah I don't even know what it's called, all I know is that it's what Billy Boy there sells to all our corporate friends.

 

[mxlinus]

There's a "Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" that is a 64bit version of XP, "Home", "Professional", "Media center edition", but other than that... I doubt it...

 

[Bob Savage]

Yeah I don't even know what it's called, all I know is that it's what Billy Boy there sells to all our corporate friends.

Based upon the fact that you don't even know what it is you're going to be loading, I'd say don't do it.

 

[Razorjack]

XP Professional is a non-bloated (well, considering it's windows) version of XP, it doesn't come with a lot of the stupid little features that XP Home does but instead comes with some much more useful networking tools.

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

XP Professional is a non-bloated (well, considering it's windows) version of XP, it doesn't come with a lot of the stupid little features that XP Home does but instead comes with some much more useful networking tools.

I think that's what it might be.

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

you can tweak all the shite out of ordinary xp anyway.

 

[SpaceCorpse]

you can tweak all the shite out of ordinary xp anyway.

Yeah, exactly;
http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html

 

[Bob Savage]

I still contend that you should just forget about it. You don't even know what it is you're getting, which means you'll probably hose something up, assuming you're going to load a new OS and not MS Office (which will be of no benefit for audio).

Use the link SC posted and/or checkout www.musicxp.net and just tweak what you've got.