Talk:Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
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[edit] Hibernate
The article reads that hibernate is not supported/can't be enabled. This is not true. I'm running FLP on several machines and provided you have enough free space (atleast 1x the RAM size) you can enable and hibernate just fine, I have tested this and it works. Please see the screen shot of my XPize'd WinFLP install with working hibernation support here. I have edited the original article to reflect the reality e.g. hibernation being functional. Maybe others running WinFLP can confirm this. Thank you. 219.95.10.143 (talk) 04:54, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
-- I've tested WinFLP on two laptops and had no luck, however on my desktops I was able to get Hibernate to work. I wonder if it don't work with laptops? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.185.10.190 (talk) 01:27, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Games
Question : is that true that Windows Fundamentals (WinFLP) does supports games, as suggested in the article ? Many sources say it does not, so it is unclear. By "Games", i'm not referring to card solitary games, but rather to full fledged and graphic-hungry DirectX9.0c games, such as UT2004, Oblivion and so on... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.65.70.192 (talk • contribs) 16:57, 9 January 2007
- Yes it supports DX9.0c, but if your hardware is ancient, the game won't magically play just because you install this. Also, if you want to use the Joystick calibration applet, you have to acquire joy.cpl from elsewhere. - WeniWidiWiki 23:34, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- I think the reason he is asking is because he is considering it for the memory/ram usage savings, for gaming. 66.215.12.70 (talk) 01:43, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Obtaining WinFLP
Question : how does one obtain this operating system? there seems to be no opportunity to purchase or download WFLPC anywhere.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Magic.dominic (talk • contribs) 00:22, 3 April 2007
- Per the article: "It is exclusively available to Software Assurance customers." I suspect we might want to make the article clearer on this point. —DragonHawk (talk) 18:19, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
- It was leaked on P2P networks three weeks after its official release. But be aware that it is illegal to get it from there.--87.122.10.198 08:30, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] NULL.SYS
I'm also having trouble with null.sys, but with Apache. I can't start the apache server and this is put in error.log:
[crit] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : Parent: Unable to connect child stdout to NUL. [crit] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : master_main: create child process failed. Exiting.
I'm not able to find any information on how to install null.sys, I have obtained a null.sys from my other computer, and it won't work if I put it in \windows\system32\drivers either. Apparently you need a .inf file to install .sys files somehow. Have anyone found information on how to install null.sys properly? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ReCover (talk • contribs) 06:48, 16 August 2007
- Talk pages are not intended to be used for tech support. You might try the reference desk. —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 20:48, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Flp logo.png
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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Performance, dual boot with standard Windows XP
Can Windows fundamentals be installed alongside WinXP as a separate operating system, available upon boot? Also, do we have any benchmarks on the relative performance of FLP, compared to XP? It is all well and good claiming to have "cut the bloat" and "slimmed the os down", but shouldn't we have palpable evidence to that effect? What kind of improvement can we expect for system boot-up over XP. Or for typical Office2003 usage? Web surfing, etc? Hasn't anyone benchmarked FLP (on modern and legacy systems alike) to discover whether the hype holds? 84.254.12.174 (talk) 14:24, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
- I believe that you can install WinFLP alongside other versions of Windows, although you can only buy it through Software Assurance. The system requirements are "similar to Windows XP", so I doubt that you'd see a huge performance gain. — Wenli (reply here) 18:55, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
