I can't believe how F****** bad MS can be.

I've been tearing my hair out trying to get an evaluation version of Windows XP embedded working.

So you go to MS's website and first of all, you cannot download it entirely, you can only download a f****** web downloader.

I'm sick to death of these web-enabled downloaders. Give me the whole frikkin thing. I don't want to download an app that then requires me to be connected to the net whilst it downloads components one by one. It just makes no sense.

So then I look at any "offline" downloaders. Ahh, there is one. Click on the link, "page not found". Looks like MS can't even maintain their website

So back to the crappy installer that's even buggier than Vista :eek:

And I think it just doesn't work with Vista. You download the stuff then it comes up with an "access denied" and "can't find C:\Program Files\Windows Embedded\Installer" or some carp like that. Oh and then because it can't continue, it decides to delete all the temp files it downloaded in the first place so you're back to square 1 with only the f****** web installer.

Jeesh, can you tell I'm annoyed

to you, Microsucks!

Oh and why when I want to do something in Program Files, I can't. Because it keeps on popping up with a "Destination Folder Access Denied - you need to confirm this operation". You click on Continue then it brings up the User Account Control menu. But I ****ING TURNED THE ****ING THING ****ING OFF !!!!!

so use linux?

Seems you're not the only one who has issues... Classic Clips: Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft Over XP

so use linux?

It's tempting, Paul.

It's to run a small PC (ITX) as a home file server, FTP server, torrent client, etc.

I've been thinking about linux as it would perfectly suit the requirements. Just not sure which distro to get for the above. Any suggestions?

Seems you're not the only one who has issues... Classic Clips: Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft Over XP

Commendable!

im about to venture towards ubuntu. not dabbled in years but as was a SCO systems admin back in the day how hard can it be.... had UPS not managed to wait till i wasnt look to tryand delivery my new dell box i would be installing it now.

Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu

Only ever ran ubuntu from the cd. Think it was 7.04 or somthing the verison I used. It was nice. Worked.

I use Mepis, recently tried openSUSE 11 Live CD which was very nice looking & have dabbled with Antix (Mepis derivitive) which would be pretty spot on for what you want to do, I'd have thought as it has a very light touch on the resource front.

I use 64 bit Mepis 7 on my Dell Optiplex 740 for use as a desktop machine/file server/print server. Works a treat!

OK, to be fair, it turns out the XPe development platform is completely incompatible with Vista.

So I've built an XP VM.

And I have to say, it's fantastic. Never thought I'd say that about MS.

But with the target analyser tool, which has a 16-bit DOS version, i've run that from a bootable USB key on the ITX system, created my list of devices and now in the process of importing that into my XPe project so I can build an extremely strealined XP Pro build.

so use linux?

Yep, we use embedded linux or threadx, why would you want to embed XP only god knows.

Seems you're not the only one who has issues... Classic Clips: Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft Over XP

That reads like a load of ******** to me I'm afraid. Gates would never write something like that. I'm sure it would contain a lot more business speak if he did and also he wouldn't be so verbose. He just say "I tried to do this, it didn't work, fix it or I will rain down upon thee with great vengeance etc etc."

Yeah, I rather suspect it wasn't 100% genuine.