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02-10-2003, 11:57 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
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Hardware profiles?
What are they? What use do they have?
I just saw this in the System Properties. TIA for the input.
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02-11-2003, 12:18 AM
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I use hardware profiles on my ME machine at work. It allows you to run under a different set of hardware. I have the most common motherboards that I use in my WinME hardware profiles, so if I'm testing one of these boards, I select that hardware profile, then Windows doesn't sit there re-detecting hardware as the job is already done.
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02-11-2003, 12:25 AM
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Mondsreitersmann
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So, it's only for when you are constantly swaping cards and such?
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02-11-2003, 12:34 AM
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Or if you for whatever reason swap your hard drive from machine to machine. It's kinda nice for Ghost images in a business where you may have more than one type of machine. You can make one image with a profile for each machine, then when you image the drive, just select the appropriate profile and delete the rest.
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02-11-2003, 12:42 AM
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Mondsreitersmann
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Now that I think about it, it's strange that WinXP has that option, with the MPA thing and all.
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02-11-2003, 07:58 AM
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Still a useful feature in a big business which would be running something like corporate edition where product activation isn't an issue.
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02-11-2003, 01:56 PM
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I have two different profiles for one of my notebooks running XP. Docked and undocked. My docking station has some expansion cards, a video card as well as an additional hard drive in it.
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02-11-2003, 02:12 PM
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Just kinda reading the thread so this is directed to HAL 9000. (or anyone else actually)
I haven`t worked with dynamic drives but doesn`t that address the drive swapping thing as they are supposed to be hot swappable? Or does the hot swappable issue only pertain to one machine? If you follow me. Something I should really look into. PS edit...BTW, I never gave hardware profiles a second thought but I`m glad I read this thread. I sense this becoming my next obsession.. 
Last edited by KHT; 02-11-2003 at 02:28 PM. |
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