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  • 7th August 2008 at 16:35 in reply to: My introduction… and problem :-) #46971
    DougC

      Charles,

      I have a very similar E8400 setup at home except I have an 8600GT video card and 4G of RAM. My Server 2008 Enterprise 32 installation runs beautifully with all the Aero effects enabled and I do not see high CPU usage on dwm.exe. Since dwm.exe is responsible for the 3D and transparency effects, I wonder if your video card drivers are causing problems? You might want to try either newer or older versions to see if it improves the situation.

      I presume you have activated the Desktop Experience feature?

      Doug

      13th June 2008 at 00:17 in reply to: Performance Issue after Hyper-V RC1 update #46427
      DougC

        I’ve also got a P35 chipset motherboard but can’t find the Server 2008 driver you mentioned.

        Can you please provide a link to this driver or the exact name of the installation package?

        Thanks!

        10th June 2008 at 14:43 in reply to: Standby and Hybernation #46364
        DougC

          Absolutely. My machine is on a UPS so I use the Sleep option when I shut mine down. When I start up again, I’m at the desktop and ready to go in under 5 seconds, which is much faster than the almost 2 minutes to boot from a cold start.

          I even set my Power properties to use the Sleep button on my keyboard so a simple button press is all that’s required to shut it down for the night.

          16th April 2008 at 14:45 in reply to: Disguise Win2k8 as Vista? #45229
          DougC

            I have Vista SP1 running on another computer so I exported the registry branch from HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersion and imported it into my Server 2008 machine. Unfortunately, it didn’t make any difference. The System icon in Control Panel still reports it as Server 2008 and several applications that I tried still know it as Server, not Vista.

            There must be other locations in the Registry that would need to be changed but does anyone know which ones they are?

            16th April 2008 at 14:45 in reply to: Disguise Win2k8 as Vista? #45295
            DougC

              I have Vista SP1 running on another computer so I exported the registry branch from HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersion and imported it into my Server 2008 machine. Unfortunately, it didn’t make any difference. The System icon in Control Panel still reports it as Server 2008 and several applications that I tried still know it as Server, not Vista.

              There must be other locations in the Registry that would need to be changed but does anyone know which ones they are?

              16th April 2008 at 14:38 in reply to: Hot to get free non server antivirus working on win2k8 #46010
              DougC

                Forgive my ignorance, but how do you remove the OS dependency from the msi file? I installed Orca and am looking at the Symantec AntiVirus Corporate msi file but I can’t find where the OS dependency is located.

                Although the Symantec AV installs and runs okay on Server 2008, it disables email scanning, something I would like to enable.

                Thanks for your help!

                Doug

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