Newsgroup: it.comp.os.win.xp
Titolo: [OT] Longhorn

Chi mi potrebbe tradurre questa FAQ su Longhorn?
Ciao, grazie.
PS:
Chi vuole provare Longhorn poi kiedermi il CD..
By popular demand HWGeeks brings you *drum roll* The Longhorn FAQ! This 
Longhorn FAQ is split into two sections, first part is what’s different and 
what to expect in the future of longhorn’s development. Second part is 
general questions about using Longhorn.
So what is Longhorn?
Longhorn is the next desktop version of Windows, currently slated for 
release in the second half of 2004.
What’s currently different about it?
Longhorn currently is sporting a redone styling engine, and a very early new 
visual style called Plex. It also has a new sidebar (Microsoft’s answer to 
OS X’s dock). It also has changes to Display Properties, where it now looks 
like an XML task pane. Longhorn also has backwards compatibility with older 
versions of windows. Also Longhorn is NT 6.
What’s going to be added to it in the future?
The GUI for Longhorn will be Direct3D accelerated. This doesn’t mean the 
interface with be 3D just that it’ll be accelerated, so it doesn’t depend on 
RAM for all the images anymore.
The sidebar will be added to a lot to allow for more customization and 
flexibility, also the taskbar will be able to integrate into the sidebar.
The Windows File System will be added. WFS will make it much easier to 
access relevant data and link between files. WFS is based on SQL database 
technology.
The look of longhorn will change dramatically (we all should remember how XP 
looked in the early beta stages).
The styling engine will change a lot.
My Games will be added My Documents.
Castle will be added to Network Neighborhood.
More services will be integrated directly into the OS; My Games will be the 
first of these to be noticeable.
Palladium will be added, unlike common opinion palladium is not big brother, 
but is necessary for an OS as tied into web services as longhorn will be.
What happened to Blackcomb?
Blackcomb has been scaled back to merely a point upgrade over longhorn for 
servers.
When does Longhorn go beta?
Longhorn will go beta around june 2003.
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How do I enable the sidebar?
Right-click the taskbar and go to properties. Check ‘enable sidebar’.
Why can’t I change display options?
You can you just need to click on ‘Classic Display Properties’ the new 
display properties task pane isn’t really up and running yet.
AGH! I can’t install it says things about missing files!
Install from hard-drive. The leaked build doesn’t install from CD properly 
without tweaking the CD a lot.
I can’t download with Internet Explorer.
If you have a secondary machine you can download a fix for this from here. 
Otherwise you’ll have to go into Explorer and in the address bar type in 
ftp.mozilla.org
. Since the ftp and IE download are stored in different 
places it’ll let you download mozilla and phoenix from the mozilla ftp.
It’s running to slow and is unstable how do I fix this?
I wrote a guide of simple tweaks and fixes located here.
I’ve seen screenshot’s of you running Media Center what is it?
Media Center is an alternative interface for windows to make it work better 
as an entertainment center. Media Center has TV, video playback, DVD 
playback, TV recording, and music playback. Media Center can be controlled 
both through a remote and with traditional methods. For more information on 
Media Center plus screenshots of it check here.
You said I require XP CD2 for Media Center but theirs a mediactr.cab on the 
longhorn CD. Is the cab file I have fixable?
Yes it is fixable, we’ve recently made a fix for this due to popular demand. 
You can download it here. The fix also includes a tutorial on how-to use it.
How do I get around Longhorn file protection?
I wrote a guide for this located here.
Why aren’t advanced options showing in Display properties for my graphics 
card?
To get the advanced configuration tabs you’ll need to go into Device Manager 
and delete the entry for your video card.
You’ll then need to go to the setup for your graphics card drivers.
Right-click on the setup and go to properties and then the compatibility 
tab, select Windows XP in the compatibility mode list.
Run the setup and reboot, you’ll now have your old advanced options tabs. 

 Chi vuole provare Longhorn poi kiedermi il CD..
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Giusto x sapere come va? Con che configurazione hw-sw lo fai girare?
ciaociao
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 ciaociao
E' molto peso, specilamte sull'uso di Explorer...
Duron 1300MHz, 256MB RAM SDR, GeFo 2
Ciao