PaulB

What version Vista?
Vista uses an entirely different memory management system than previous
Windows. It tries to use all the memory available, something called
superfetch, to anticipate what you will need and preloading it into memory.
If needed for something else, it relinqueshes what ever is needed. What is
the good of unused RAM?
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Paul


"news" wrote:

> hello,
> We're trying vista on our business network.
>
> After reading a few of the previous posts it looks like getting vista to
> work correctly on a network is a mess.
>
> I'm having a problem where it doesn't see 2 workgroups.
>
> We're on a network with 1 win2k server and 3 linux servers running
> samba. There are also about 75 workstations running winXP.
>
> One of the linux machines is the PDC running samba 3 so I was able to
> join vista to the domain. I was surprised I got that far!
>
> all the other pc's work fine using the linux PDC.
>
> Our network is setup with 2 workgroup names.
>
> the vista machine doesn't see any of them! It can see the machines that
> are part of the PDC domain but that's it. there are many other machines
> as well.
>
> winXP works fine with this setup - it's been this way for years.
>
> Is it possible to get vista to work like winXP in regards to seeing the
> network? After reading some previous posts, it looks like we are NOT
> going to use vista for a few years until microsoft gets it working
> correctly. It's amazing what garbage they put out.
>
>
>
> Oskar
>
>
> ps. a $3200 HP laptop with 3gb of ram running vista - using 882MB of
> ram at idle!! damn!!! what a resource pig!
>
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