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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave who wrote (64305)	1/20/2002 4:05:56 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

No, they are not suspended. They continue to run.

To: Dave who wrote (64305)	1/20/2002 4:15:33 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 74651

Consider a single computer in a household where you have multiple users sharing one machine. XP Home: For the target market that it was designed for (multiple family members sharing ONE machine) it works rather well. It is not the same as concurrent remote usage, ala Unix. Apps running as user A, are left running when the computer is switched to user B's account. Say, if user A has a download running, and user B comes along and logs on to play Zoo Tycoon, the download for user B continues, uninterupted. The behavior of the app when the user is changed is up to the app. Things like Media players will stop as Mom doesn't generally like Johnys music and perhaps also so that the CD drive gets released. Remote desktop on XP Home, works well (even audio gets remoted), but it is still one user at a time interacting with the machine. The machine remoted to is locked out from local usage for the duration of the session. If you want multiple users connected and running concurrently on the same maching you need XP Server, Unix or Linux or...