Longhorn may be worthwhile after all.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:50 am

http://www.tomshardware.com/column/20050711/index.html

Read the whole article. MS finally implemented a tool that will allow to run your computer in a slimmed down "game mode" where it turns off unnecessary crap for you rather than having you do it the old fashioned way like we did for years.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:57 am

Sounds interesting. The automatic mode will never be a match for tweaking it yourself tho.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:16 am

Heh, MS is trying to combine the best of both worlds with that one. It's optimizing the system based on the components you have, and now there's a built-in system call to try to convince you to buy a better video card! Everybody wins!

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:56 am

It's like cleaning up ★■◆●. The ★■◆● shouldn't have been there in the first place

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:06 pm

Ticord, think of it this way:

Would you really buy a car with most of the interior gone, just so your 0-60 times will be 0.5 seconds faster? NO - because you couldn't stand the day-to-day hassles of a car which featured nothing except a drivers seat.

Would you like a car which automatically removed the interior every time you want to drag race? YES, you would.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 2:48 pm

Mobius wrote:Ticord, think of it this way:

Would you really buy a car with most of the interior gone, just so your 0-60 times will be 0.5 seconds faster? NO - because you couldn't stand the day-to-day hassles of a car which featured nothing except a drivers seat.

Would you like a car which automatically removed the interior every time you want to drag race? YES, you would.

In an extremely rare case Mobius makes sense here.

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 5:59 pm

But my gaming rig is always racing. That's why it's a, uhm, gaming rig.

suicide eddie · Post by **suicide eddie** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:24 pm

well its in this first build but isnt working yet, this build runs very slowly for me (mouse lag) but doesnt seem to be due to cpu or mem load theres a lot more services available to be shutdown, mostly network offerings, searches, vpn and similar stuff. graphically its more detailed. higher window res, fully transparent icons but its been a bit overkill on the explorer window.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:13 am

Thanks for the heads-up, Mobus

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:06 pm

Just out of curiosity, how much ram does it use? I was rather surpised at all the services they added to XP.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:14 pm

I'm sure it will work fine on 1 GB.