Install Longhorn on your own machine. Download from the school's FTP to the installation mirror, ISO file
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It is a preview version released by Microsoft in May 2004 in the Window Hardware Engineering Conference. You can use it for free for 180 days, then you must activate to continue using it.
The installation serial number is searched from www.google.com. Since there is no engraving CD, I directly use the file in the ISO to solve the hard disk. Entering the directory for installing, the previously used system is WinXP, and the new installation is executed, which is installed in another partition to be installed in multiple system modes. The whole process is not happening slowly, it is to detect hardware. My machine seems to have more than 40 minutes of death. Just when I was so patient, I finally passed. The things that needed to be set after installation, because the driver either is built-in or not, because there is basically no device's longhorn dedicated driver. My PCI inside the cat can not recognize correctly. Anyway, it is not looking for it, let it go, but this also explains that it can only be tested and experienced at this stage. After all, many other hardware can't be very good. Support is a large flaw of OS.
The first feeling of entering the system is still gorgeous, although my TNT2,
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The graphics card showed that the interface is very touched, but the heart is finally the hard disk is not bright, and it can be seen is that the icon of the desktop is transparent. After watching the display attribute, my memory is recognized.
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,pitiful. Moreover, the refresh rate can not be adjusted, it may be that my graphics card is too low. At that time, the refresh rate is definitely below 70 Hz, and the screen has a clear flicker. Some changes in the start menu, and there are more control panels. The resource manager looks more beautiful, but these are not the most important characteristics, if you simply want to change the world, you can do it. Substantifications occur in the software, such as the upgrade of the version, the addition of new features. 3 major features promised by MS: Winfs file storage system, AALON graphics system, Indigo web service platform is now only partially implemented, and its SQL Server engine search technology can easily let you find what you want is also It's hard to say, because of a new user, it is not simple. The entire upgrade is like a must-have process, regardless of whether we really need it, really, it has not been selected. When you arrive, you have to pay more money to purchase hardware devices, look forward to running smoothly, then lost under its beautiful appearance.
For home users, they just play games, go online, see movies, they don't have any interested DirectX API. For enterprise users, they just want to use computers to complete their work, safe, quickly, and convenient completion tasks. They do not have direct interests for COM, VBScript. But Microsoft mixed out all together, you have chosen it, just choose everything. Its product, its concept, endless so-called upgrade. I am tired, I don't want to continue to follow, I just want to do what I can do, I have entered Linux with the tools that I can do.
