Sunday, September 24, 2006

Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs

Most of the information I've found about reviews of Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs I haven't found to be terribly accurate. Normally I am with everything on Steven Bink's Website, but in this case theres wasn't a lot of info. People commenting on the article were even mentioning how based on screenshots you couldn't even use ping out of the box. I installed it and found it to not be true. Granted, I did a full installation of it, but it was there.

For those who haven't haven't heard of Windows Fundamentals, basically it is a stripped down version of Windows XP designed for use with older computers with lesser hardware. Windows firewall is still built into it and all of the basic features for business users were still in it. I haven't tried installing much software on it yet, but without any software loaded on it. As long as you have software assurance on a Corporate Version of Windows XP, you can definitely utilize it. It even uses the same product key. I haven't really seen too many limitations on it, but it is just missing some tiny features. Games are gone. Add/Remove Windows Components - well there aren't any to add. And it seems to utilize memory a little bitter - which is probably just because it isn't running as many services.

Here's some of my screenshots from it:

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'd like to hear more. Can you run Office on it? Firefox? What can't you do with it?

Tony Real said...

I haven't tried some crazy 3D games, but from what I can tell there isn't anything I've found that you can't install on it that you can on XP Pro. It has more capabilities than XP Home has for the most part.

Jen said...

I heard there was a monster explosion near you guys, is everything ok?

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