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Windows 2000 vs XP
- Thread starter Toonces
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Bullshit. Why people spout crap like this is beyond me. I have nothing against loading up a machine with 2GB of ram, especially since its so cheap, but to make up numbers like this is just plain wrong.Quote from synchro:
Do yourself a favor by having 2 gigabytes of RAM when you run Windows XP Professional. The real memory footprint of XP Professional is about 600MB -- i.e., the amount of memory it takes to completely load the OS into memory. 2GB is necessary if you want peak peroformance from XP & your trading software.
Quote from winter:
Not sure what you are talking about but if its NTFS encryption then I'm almost positive its available in NTFS under W2K as well. If you dont do NTFS encryption (or equivalent) then your files can be easily read by anyone who can boot the machine into another OS.
It's probably the NTFS encryption (I'm definitely not a tech guy). Both OS support it, but I noticed that logging in W2K you cannot access the private folders of XP, while it's possible the other way around (with Admin accts and not doing any encryption on my part). I guess then XP does it by default, while W2K not. Or am I mistaken?
Not sure what you are doing but with no encryption, if I am the administrator and have access to your partition (or drive) then I can read any file, nothing can be hidden or kept from me by way of permissions since I am now the administrator and have completely control.Quote from 9999:
It's probably the NTFS encryption (I'm definitely not a tech guy). Both OS support it, but I noticed that logging in W2K you cannot access the private folders of XP, while it's possible the other way around (with Admin accts and not doing any encryption on my part). I guess then XP does it by default, while W2K not. Or am I mistaken?
Perhaps the private files are marked hidden or system and you do not have your system setup to show the hidden/system files in the GUI (Tools->Folder Options->View, in XP)
As an admin, he can reset your password. log on to your acct and read what he pleases. but at that point, you might know your password has been changed
Quote from winter:
Not sure what you are doing but with no encryption, if I am the administrator and have access to your partition (or drive) then I can read any file, nothing can be hidden or kept from me by way of permissions since I am now the administrator and have completely control.
Perhaps the private files are marked hidden or system and you do not have your system setup to show the hidden/system files in the GUI (Tools->Folder Options->View, in XP)
There is no need to do that. If there are two partitions A and B and your OS & data is on A and I boot from B (where I am an admin) then I can read everything on A without modifying anything. That's what being an admin means, the file permissions set on A will have no effect on me.Quote from lilboy716:
As an admin, he can reset your password. log on to your acct and read what he pleases. but at that point, you might know your password has been changed
I agree that if I want to boot the A partition OS and login then I would need to reset the password but to just view the entire A partition I dont need to leave any tracks (and I dont need a B partition either just boot WinXP PE from a CDROM and have at it)