[marxo]

First of all : Is there anybody who still regularly uses Windows NT4?

I know that NT4 was not so popular even at "his time" but I would really like to know does anyone prefer NT4 over 9x systems for their legacy PCs and if anybody uses it still?

This should be a general discussion about NT4 today and in general.
Might help me and perhaps awergh and his NT4 Visual Update to make some nice things...
BenoitRen thanks for the inspiration...

This post has been edited by marxo: 14 July 2007 - 01:32 PM

[jaclaz]

I do use it.

But the main reason I do it's for a couple elder machines, that do run old programs only, so there is not much sense (for me) to "tweak it" in Visual way.

However, NT4 is not dead at all, the fact is that, from the beginning, it was targeted to "Prefessional" users had a much more limited diffusion than win9x/Me, so the "residual users" base is definitely smaller.

I simply cannot remember having seen ANY PC that came with NT4 installed or bundled, exclusion made for servers.

Some links that might be of interest for today's NT4 users (and links therein):
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/Universal-...driver-f60.html
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/I-found-a-...mine-t1697.html
http://hjem.get2net....ware/onebutton/
http://nt4ref.zcm.com.au/usb.htm
http://us.geocities.com/mypublic99/
http://www.benchtest.com/nt_udma1.html
http://www.gammadyne.com/cmdline.htm
http://smallvoid.com...-nt4/utilities/
http://www.msfn.org/...topic=99030&hl=

jaclaz

This post has been edited by jaclaz: 15 July 2007 - 06:30 AM

[no1none]

I use NT4 daily too, but on a "secondary machine" coz mostly I use W2K

[888]

NT4 user here too

[marxo]

So, is anything bothering you? What do u think should be added or ported?

[Dave.Net]

marxo, on Jul 16 2007, 08:08 AM, said:

So, is anything bothering you? What do u think should be added or ported?

Mostly USB support and some visual enhancements (32-bit icons, gradient titlebars). Setting Tahoma as the system font would be nice too.

I don't use NT4 anymore but it was my main OS several years ago. Fast as hell for sure.

[no1none]

Dave.Net, on Jul 16 2007, 05:07 PM, said:

marxo, on Jul 16 2007, 08:08 AM, said:

So, is anything bothering you? What do u think should be added or ported?

Mostly USB support and some visual enhancements (32-bit icons, gradient titlebars). Setting Tahoma as the system font would be nice too.

I don't use NT4 anymore but it was my main OS several years ago. Fast as hell for sure.

Those are just cosmetics

I'd expect some more 'serious' cons against NT4 than that
Ie lack of DX beyond DX5, lack of drivers for newer hardware, etc etc...
Other than that its just great OS, perhaps one of the best to come out from Redmond (or should I say from IBM )

[CaptainStacks]

I wouldn't mind USB support.

The visual support has mostly been resolved by a user on this forum

[marxo]

jaclaz Had some links about USB drivers u in post #2.

[CaptainStacks]

Oh, I missed that.

[arctirus]

CaptainStacks, on Aug 1 2007, 09:22 PM, said:

Oh, I missed that.

I've got a few NT servers still cranking away. I think they are slated to get replaced next year though.

As far as usb, drivers to exist to now for usb on NT. Would I be breaking any forum rules to post them?

[marxo]

No you wouldn't, whatsoever we would appreciate that!

[BPoller]

I just got NT 4.0 Terminal Server at eBay to play with.

My kids all use their PCs to surf and chat over DSL (cause newer games dont run on their mashines).
I wanna test, if just using Thinclients for them (around 20 EUR / ~28 $) from eBay could save us a lot of power.
Those Thinclients use 25W instead of 145W on their Compaq Desktops.

So, also i dont know if NT 4.0 TS will be supoorted, i can say: YES, i use NT 4.0 and am interested .

Bye,
Bjoern

[arctirus]

BPoller, on Aug 2 2007, 11:47 AM, said:

I just got NT 4.0 Terminal Server at eBay to play with.

My kids all use their PCs to surf and chat over DSL (cause newer games dont run on their mashines).
I wanna test, if just using Thinclients for them (around 20 EUR / ~28 $) from eBay could save us a lot of power.
Those Thinclients use 25W instead of 145W on their Compaq Desktops.

So, also i dont know if NT 4.0 TS will be supoorted, i can say: YES, i use NT 4.0 and am interested .

Bye,
Bjoern

I haven't tested this myself, I just saw it for download and thought I better hold onto it in case I need it someday. I don't think it's warez but should it turn out to be please delete this.

Download link: http://rapidshare.co.../NTUSB.rar.html

[marxo]

Would you mind me uploading those to a permanent link (without deleting...)?

This post has been edited by marxo: 02 August 2007 - 12:24 PM

[arctirus]

marxo, on Aug 2 2007, 02:24 PM, said:

Would you mind me uploading those to a permanent link (without deleting...)?

By all means, go for it.

[CaptainStacks]

Good links, downloading now

[marxo]

Here they are:

Windows NT4 USB Drivers

I will also put them in Download Area at WPC

This post has been edited by marxo: 03 August 2007 - 04:47 PM

[CaptainStacks]

Well, I just acquired another Celeron computer, and I stuck NT 4.0 on it.

So I can basically test things designed for NT 4.0 if anyone needs me to.

Currently installing everything and getting some USB drivers.

It's a Celeron 800mhz with 512Mb of SD133 ram.

[marxo]

Great.. Maybe you'll be the first one to try this 32-bit icon support...