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Originally posted by 911SC Pilot
Well, the one I was doing was set up as a Fat32.
Could you go into more detail please.
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For your system to be on Fat32 it would have to be an upgrade from Win2000 or older. I only ever use the Pro version of WinXP so I guess it is possible that the Home version can format to Fat32 but as far as I know and have read the only option is NTFS.
You can convert a Fat32 disk to NTFS with a few clicks but you cannot go back. NTFS is a lot more stable and less prone to loosing data.
hmmm... ok, with WinXP you can buy either a boxed product (standard retail / OEM package) that comes with a licence key either in the box or stuck on the case of the PC (most likely with a brand name PC like Dell etc...) OR you can get a site licence for an office that allows you to install WinXP on many PCs without having to authenticate them to Microsoft.
The retail version is a licence to install WinXP on ONE PC with up to TWO processors inside.
Hyper threading is a thing that Intel came up with that made the processor look like two processors. the benefit of doing this is that if one of the theoretical processors are busy (compressing a new MP3?) then the other processor can do the task. this reduces the wait time for a process to be performed. if there was only one processor then it would have to divide it's time / resources between the two tasks.
A hyper threaded processor counts as only 1 processor to WinXP. So, if you had a WinXP PC with 2 hyper threaded processors then it would behave like a 4 processor system (but just a bit slower - much faster than just 2 processors tho).
Processors with Hyper threading are Pentium 4:
2.8GHz (can be either hyper threaded or not - check before you buy)
3.0GHz
3.2GHZ
3.4GHZ and beyond
3.06GHZ is NOT Hyper threaded.