Some of you are in between two stuff of choosing between a Server and Workstation. There is a big difference between both. A workstation is just a client system for your person work while a Server is a an dedicated machine for prescribed task. So here when we buy system it becomes our choice what to for. There is an option where you can use an server operating system on workstation as an regular machine and then after sometime you can switch back to the original state you want. This will make your job much easier and better. There are some number of options which you need to disable and some configuration settings that you have to manage.
It is also right to say that there is an noticeable differences between Windows XP Professional and a server operating system. I will stick with Windows XP because of more stability. You just need to disabled some by default features which are not really needed in your workstation. It become mandatory to disable the desktop themes and other stuff for better performance of your server. Sometime even sound is stopped for gaining more performance. On the web there is lot of materials that can guide yoy on how to make this system little closer to the user but in particular it is working on server operating system. I had mentioned here some minimum stuff which is needed to do.
Most current operating systems include desktop networking capabilities and allows access to multiple users. Typical applications of workstations or desktop low may include word processing, spreadsheet and program financial management. Workstations in high-level, applications can include graphic design or computer management and more, as mentioned earlier. A disk less workstation is a kind special computer designed to run on a network . As its name implies, has no hard drive but includes monitor , keyboard, memory, starting instructions in ROM and a network card . The software used to establish a connection to the network is loaded from a ROM chip located on NIC.
Optimizing Windows Server 2003
1. The first step you have to do is disabled the Manage Your Server screen on your startup. This appears each time immediately after booting the PC. To do this you can see a checkbox below where you have to remove the tick.
2. By default to increase the performance of Windows Server most less applications and least settings are enabled. Windows Server 2003 is somewhat similar to Windows XP with similar features. The server operating system also has the ability to use desktop themes, but it is disabled. You have to enable the same. For that click on Start > Run and then type services.msc. In the list of service tick on Themes and set the startup mode to Automatic. You can then manage the visual effect of server setup.
3. The third thing you have to do is to Shutdown Event Tracker. This is necessary to stop the log service at the time of shutdown. Or else whenever you shut down your pc then you will get an reason box. There is an extra dialog box which appears and which is really not needed. For that Click on Start > Run > gpedit.msc and in that go to Local Computer Policy> Computer Configuration> Administrative Templates> System, and then click Display Shutdown Event Tracker. Set this parameter to the position of Disabled.
4. The fourth step is quiet important for every system. Now in Windows Server 2003 Internet Explorer is the by default web browser. So it has very strict security settings. The web browser works on the Enhanced Security Configuration of Internet Explorer which allow access only to trusted domains. This directly means blocking of unwanted website. In practice, this stands for blocking the entire Internet. To bring down the security settings of Internet Explorer in the normal state, it is required to go in Option > Security and move the slide to the end.
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