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Clarification needed for Hardware profiles
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| Ok, so here is what I know. Or at least what I think I know :P
Windows 2000 pro will create an initial hardware profile upon
installation of Windows 2000 pro. It takes the configuration of the
computer's hardware and services and created the profile.
Then I read in my book that "You can create a new profile with the
same configuration as another profile. To create a new profile, in the
Hardware Profiles dialog box, in the Available Hardware Profiles list,
select the profile that you want to copy, and then click Copy."
Now why would I want to make a new profile by copying the initial
profile? How will Windows 2000 differentiate the two profiles other
then my naming it differently.
This is where I get a little confused. Maybe I am overthinking the
entire thing but regardless I will try to explain where I am getting
confused.
Lets says I have a laptop.
It's not docked. I install Windows 2000 so an initial profile is
created with the hardware and services that were present during
installation.
I then want to create a profile for the laptop when it's docked. So I
do a copy of the initial profile and rename it to docked workstation
and I select this is a laptop and it is in a docked state.
So I dock the laptop into the docking station. (Is that part
necessary?)
Does Windows 2000 do something at this point? Because as I understand
it I basicly took the undocked profile. Copied it and told it that
this is a laptop that is docked.
TIA
Dups
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| On 2 Apr 2004 12:57:18 -0800, Dups wrote:
> Ok, so here is what I know. Or at least what I think I know :P
>
> Windows 2000 pro will create an initial hardware profile upon
> installation of Windows 2000 pro. It takes the configuration of the
> computer's hardware and services and created the profile.
>
> Then I read in my book that "You can create a new profile with the
> same configuration as another profile. To create a new profile, in the
> Hardware Profiles dialog box, in the Available Hardware Profiles list,
> select the profile that you want to copy, and then click Copy."
>
> Now why would I want to make a new profile by copying the initial
> profile? How will Windows 2000 differentiate the two profiles other
> then my naming it differently.
Because if you only want to disable a single device it is very easy to copy
the current profile, go into Device manager and disable the device for the
new profile. Otherwise you will need to confifgure every device.
After you have created the profile during the boot up Windows will ask you
to choose which hardware profile. You can set a default profile and a
timeout to boot to the default profile, or ask it to wait for you to
choose.
>
> This is where I get a little confused. Maybe I am overthinking the
> entire thing but regardless I will try to explain where I am getting
> confused.
>
> Lets says I have a laptop.
>
> It's not docked. I install Windows 2000 so an initial profile is
> created with the hardware and services that were present during
> installation.
>
> I then want to create a profile for the laptop when it's docked. So I
> do a copy of the initial profile and rename it to docked workstation
> and I select this is a laptop and it is in a docked state.
>
> So I dock the laptop into the docking station. (Is that part
> necessary?)
It depends. Windows 2000 has pretty good hardware support. probably you
do not need a docking station profile at all (but you did in NT) for docked
and undocked. Lets say the docking station uses a driver for a device that
is not PnP and is not in Windows 2000 (extensive) driver library. Then the
answer is yes you need to have the hardware physically connected before
installing the driver.
>
> Does Windows 2000 do something at this point? Because as I understand
> it I basicly took the undocked profile. Copied it and told it that
> this is a laptop that is docked.
Basically a hardware profile tells windows what drivers and sevices to
load. Try doing it yourself. You don't need a laptop for that.
>
>
> TIA
> Dups
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| mdups@hotmail.com (Dups) wrote in message news:<fff7ee98.0404021257.7b263a1a@posting.google.com>...
> Ok, so here is what I know. Or at least what I think I know :P
>
> Windows 2000 pro will create an initial hardware profile upon
> installation of Windows 2000 pro. It takes the configuration of the
> computer's hardware and services and created the profile.
>
> Then I read in my book that "You can create a new profile with the
> same configuration as another profile. To create a new profile, in the
> Hardware Profiles dialog box, in the Available Hardware Profiles list,
> select the profile that you want to copy, and then click Copy."
>
> Now why would I want to make a new profile by copying the initial
> profile? How will Windows 2000 differentiate the two profiles other
> then my naming it differently.
>
> This is where I get a little confused. Maybe I am overthinking the
> entire thing but regardless I will try to explain where I am getting
> confused.
>
> Lets says I have a laptop.
>
> It's not docked. I install Windows 2000 so an initial profile is
> created with the hardware and services that were present during
> installation.
>
> I then want to create a profile for the laptop when it's docked. So I
> do a copy of the initial profile and rename it to docked workstation
> and I select this is a laptop and it is in a docked state.
>
> So I dock the laptop into the docking station. (Is that part
> necessary?)
>
> Does Windows 2000 do something at this point? Because as I understand
> it I basicly took the undocked profile. Copied it and told it that
> this is a laptop that is docked.
>
>
> TIA
> Dups
Actually, Nevermind. I spoke to someone I know IRL about the issue. He
clarified things for me.
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