Thread: Best OS for Ride Runner?

my first rr install was on XPembedded, very stripped down, onto a high speed 2gb compact flash. my boot time was great - less than 10 seconds - however setting up roadrunner and all the applications i needed on XPe was very, very time consuming. and any time i needed to update something, i had to rebuild XPe because of how it worked. i now use a solid state drive and hibernation now anyway, so boot time no longer concerns me.

I cant say from experience with vista or 7 or 8, but personally i would always prefer xp on a system such as this. the OS footprint will definatly be smaller, and the drivers for old/legacy devices are more abundant. unless there is some feature that a newer OS can provide that xp cant, and you cant live without it, i would stick with xp

be careful what you strip out too. i can't remember off the top of my head, but there are some components that are definatly needed by RR and or plugins or their dependencies (i.e. .net3.5) that need to stay in the xp install, otherwise you will spend tons of time having to reinstall windows with those components.

on xp bootup times, you can try searching for "minilogon" i believe, its from the XPe system, it will cut a lot of time logging into windows. it would replace winlogon.exe. you can also set a custom shell to be riderunner.exe instead of explorer.exe, but that can also present some problems depending on what functions you need

I wouldn't run anything on windows 8. It is not ready. I use xp but 7 would be fine too.

Thanks, I have this XP version called Performance edition. It's stripped down but not nearly as much as XPembedded I don't think.

Originally Posted by dmcdlrn

I wouldn't run anything on windows 8. It is not ready. I use xp but 7 would be fine too.

Well 8 is pretty similar to 7, so I'm not sure it would work any better in 7. But yes I agree I was just tinkering, wasn't planning on leaving 8 on it.

I have been running the TinyXP revisions for about the last 5 years, Rev 9 being the last one and have no problems with any b/c of the extra crap being stripped out..

I'll look at that. The one thing I'm having an issue with is that my CarPC doesn't have an optical drive......I found several guides on making a bootable install flash disk, but they don't like that I'm not using a regular XP disk as the ones I'm trying to use are modified.

Mine doesn't either, only time(s) are when installing the OS, then its disconected and everyting else needed is installed from the network.

I've been running W8 since last fall (DP then CP). The only issue I've had is with the Griffin PM. Using DP on my media machine in the livingroom, I had driver issues with the onboard sound in but haven't updated it yet to CP to see if there is a solution. Lightening fast boot times with sleep mode and no tweaking on both.

I forgot that XP doesn't support more then 3.25gb's of memory on the 32bit version lol.