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Well I have windows 2K3 enterprise here, and I have yet to use it in a carputer since, but have tried its server functionality, and I thought the damn thing was a pain in the ***. I know its a freaking server, but **** If I really want to shut down, I don’t want to have to say why...oh well there’s all good reasons for that, but it should be an option. (Probably is) Anyway...I have winxp and the whole car setup running under an optima battery, so I get days of use without turning on the car. With that in mind I setup winxp pro to go into s3 stand by mode, which is suspend to ram. So only the ram is running after 15min of inactivity. I have the bios monitoring the vga, so I turn on the screen and before the screen can display anything the carputer is running very functionally. This system can jump off the s3 standby in about 4-5 secs. No joke. I love my setup. That’s why I haven’t gone to S2K3. I also have the WOL running on it, and all I have to do from my home computer is send it a magic packet and boom 5sec ready to copy new movies and mp3s. When I get in the car I run a script and recompile my video and audio lists. I copy my album and movie art to an img folder, and I’m done. 15 later the computer returns to standby. The art is named after the file, so my vb program automatically displays any img in the 'img' folder with the file name that’s currently playing.
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