[ros-general] Questions about ReactOS 0.4.0

[waltdnes at waltdnes.org]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:35:10PM +0100, Swyter wrote
> 1) Nope. There's just a a little partition helper at install time. No
> diskmgmt.msc here. Hell, there isn't an actual Management Console in
> ReactOS yet.
> 
> 2) C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
> 
> 3) I don't think it can download things to places yet. I usually use
> the built-in `dwnl <url> <target>` command line program, which is
> pretty useful now that we have HTTPS support with cert validation.

  One of the first things I was considering downloading was GNU wget for
Windows.  "dwnl" sounds like it may be what I really need.
 
> 4) Normally there are various driverless devices that nag, each of
> them has its own don't-nag-me-please checkbox. That's why you have to
> tell them to go away individually. Ensure you are shutting down the
> virtual machine correctly so that everything gets flushed down to the
> Registry.

  Thanks for the info.  I'm running the VM as a Conroe/core2 cpu with 3
gigabytes of ram.  That's the physical spec on my oldest desktop, a Dell
Inspiron 530 that I got way back in June of 2008, which is still running
fine.  It doesn't have hardware support for virtualization, so it's my
least useful machine under linux.  Once I get the hang of things on the
VM on my current desktop, I'll try a real physical ReactOS install on
the old machine.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes at waltdnes.org>