keewee01:

deepeye:

billgates: Maybe you should at look at getting a terminal server environment for your company with thin clients. Our company has well over 1000 users and there are only 2 system engineers, 1 network engineer, 2 field engineers and 3 helpdesk people. The terminal server environment makes life so much easier for all of us in Operations. A lot of users do have laptops and desktops but we manage them remotely and don't touch them unless the software needs to be updated or there is an issue with it.

I actrually suggested that to them three years ago because I remember Waikato Uni's running the same thing in the library and it is fast.   But Tech Support told me it is too expensive to get a terminal server and it is cheaper to keep as it is.  I don't have the knowledge of that so I just kept quiet.  But in 2009/2010, we have been running XP 32-bit with 8GB RAM.  The manager was quite happy that we've got more RAM than other places so I couldn't say anything either.

32-Bit Windows XP won't use 8Gb RAM - it can't!!

Only the 64-Bit version of Win XP can address more than 3Gb of RAM, but there is a tweak to get it to 4Gb (but no more than 4Gb). They money they've spend on the additional 4Gb is wasted as it can't ever be used with the 32-Bit OS.