Simviation Forum - XP Ultimate?

Dec 24^th, 2009 at 10:53am

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Has anyone been using XP ultimate with FS9? My copy of XP is old and only has service pack 1. It would be nice to have a version with all servicepacks included.

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Reply #1 - Dec 24^th, 2009 at 11:35am

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I have never heard it called XP "Ultimate before" but I use XP Pro 64bit with SP2. You can find XP with SP3 that includes fixes from previous packs. Personally I like SP2. Wink

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Reply #2 - Dec 24^th, 2009 at 12:00pm

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Well, its a special version called XP ultimate by Johnny. This guy made a custom OS combining Vista, Windows 7, MAC OS , XP pro, and Linux. A guy from my old job said its cool but I haven't heard much about it. http://www.winxpu.info/

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Reply #3 - Dec 24^th, 2009 at 12:05pm

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It would be interesting to know how he got around all of the licensing issues. Huh

And then there's the matter of getting all of the different OS coding to work together smoothly.

This is the Frankenstein of OS's. Cheesy

The potential sounds cool, but one has to wonder about the reliability, legality, and performance issues of it all.

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Reply #4 - Dec 24^th, 2009 at 12:23pm

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As for the legality he says use your current license from your XP. There seem to be alot of people using it but not heard anyone here on SimV. I would just like to have SP1 and 2 on a disk. Plus didn't MS take those SP off thier website?

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Reply #5 - Dec 25^th, 2009 at 1:26am

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imchief wrote on Dec 24^th, 2009 at 12:23pm:

As for the legality he says use your current license from your XP. There seem to be alot of people using it but not heard anyone here on SimV. I would just like to have SP1 and 2 on a disk. Plus didn't MS take those SP off thier website?

I think their all still there Wink

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Reply #6 - Dec 25^th, 2009 at 2:26am

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You should be able to download and install the updates, including Service Pack 2 and Service Pack 3, using Windows Update.

Open this URL with Internet Explorer.
www.windowsupdate.com
and follow the prompts.

As far as Windows XP Ultimate... it's not much more than a skin over normal Windows XP and has nothing to do with Vista, 7 or Linux. I wouldn't bother.

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