[TriLUG] need to rein in WinXP

Jim Ray jim at neuse.net
Thu Apr 3 20:23:22 EST 2003


You don't have to worry about overlay unless your using a Pentium 133
MHz or older and have a big hard drive over 2 GB.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert L Martin [mailto:robertlmarti at earthlink.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 7:01 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] need to rein in WinXP
> 
> 
> I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the term "overlay" in 
> reference to a drive. Is that something I should worry about 
> with a factory installation of WindowsXP on a ThinkPad?
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> its a thunk normally used when the bios can't handle the size 
> of the HD installed the overlay gets put on before anything else then 
> Bios talks to overlay
> overlay runs the disk
> the problem is the "funny math" used
> sort of like the 
> Manager <> geek
> geek <> work 
> 
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