Help with TS09 requirements?

[Steamtostay]

Hi guys,

Just purchased TS09 for $50 at Hobsons Bay yesterday.

Got home, stuck it in the computer, it says it needs Windows XP or higher, and I'm running Win2000. Is there some way around the error, to get it to work (even without all the features?)

I ask because my father says WinXP is worthless and has said that if I "upgrade", I'm on my own with virus protection and so on; he wants my entire (extended) family to convert to various forms of Linux, which so far has proven useless in everything else I use my computer for.

Help!

 

[johnwhelan]

Interesting, your father does know that the first fully compliant operating system for POSIX (US government standard for procuring UNIX) was Windows NT?

I used to get involved computer security before I retired from the Canadian Federal government and strangely enough the most secure sytem you can run today is Windows Vista. XP isn't far behind. Check out Tomshardware.com and anandtech.com for information about how secure Unix and Linux are basically some techies will tell you then can be made really secure.

True but in my time as second level database support they were the ones we had problems with. I had a list of about a hundred userids and default passwords for Unix systems running Oracle, I don't think there was a single Unix server out of the 300 or so we had that resisted the list.

The list was available on the internet.

If you are running games XP is the one to have. If you have win 2000 its safe enough provided you do NOT connect it to the internet.

Cheerio John

 

[Steamtostay]

S'ok, my father's found a copy of XP and we're slowly putting it on with a dual-boot function, so until XP works I'm still on 2000.

My entire family uses ZoneAlarm, Spybot, Avast and a few other things, and so far Win2000 (yes, with internet on a daily basis) seems to work fine.

 

[johnwhelan]

S'ok, my father's found a copy of XP and we're slowly putting it on with a dual-boot function, so until XP works I'm still on 2000.

My entire family uses ZoneAlarm, Spybot, Avast and a few other things, and so far Win2000 (yes, with internet on a daily basis) seems to work fine.

If you are running with latest version of Firefox and "no script" you might stand a chance. I think the stats are 80% of the machines with your sort of set up have some sort of malware on them, visible or not. Personally I would not use this machine for any credit card transactions or more especially on line banking.

Be aware that Avast put out an update fairly recently that unfortunately decided part of windows was a virus and isolated it. You needed to reinstall windows to get round the problem.

Best of luck.

Cheerio John

 

[wreeder]

Interestingly TS2009 ran fine on Win2000 SP4 all during the alpha and beta testing when there was not a install required. You could just run the program from a folder. It was the first beta that had a installer that broke it. So I suspect that it is the installer that requires XP and not the program it self. But I don't know of any way around using the installer.

John, I found Win2000 SP4 to be quite safe on the Internet. The trick is getting it to SP4 without an Internet connection since you are very correct about any version earlier than SP4. As a test we did a new install of Win2000 from the CD and put it live on the net. It was attacked and compromised in about 14 seconds.

Any way, I upgraded to XP Pro and I am quite happy.

William