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Terry
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 Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 12:21 pm Post subject: winders 7 |
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| Anyone else trying Windows 7? I got a free upgrade and installed it a couple of weeks ago. So far, so good. |
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r_g_bowman
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| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I'll probably try it in the new year. Is there anything you really like about it, anything compelling? |
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Terry
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| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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| More eye candy and a few new bells and whistles. Seems to be somewhat more stable than vista. |
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Graeme
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| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:35 pm Post subject: In use since it's release date. |
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My son has been using it since it's release date.
No problems to report and faster running applications.
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mike
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I have read quite a few reports from testers that after a couple of months or so it takes it upon itself to go on a "go slow" as per Vista for no apparent reason.
I shall therefore persevere with my 64 bit Windows XP Pro until further notice.
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r_g_bowman
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| Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| I have read quite a few reports from testers that after a couple of months or so it takes it upon itself to go on a "go slow" as per Vista for no apparent reason. |
Every Windoze implementation I have used/administered since XP (and that's been quite a few systems) has had this problem. It seems to be down to fouled up registry entries and/or rogue services (I'm very diligent with the easy stuff like defrag/AV/Spyware etc). The only real solution I have ever found is a clean install every 6 months ... or you can spend months figuring out which arcane backwaters of the OS are causing the problems.
I'm not knocking Windows, far from it - I think you get an enormous amount for the money, but it surely isn't "set it and forget it".
I haven't yet heard anyone tell me anything compelling about Winders 7 (and I'm too lazy, er busy, to research it), so I think I'll do what I always do and wait until SP1.5  |
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Terry
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| Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| I haven't noticed any slow down, but it's still early in the game. The company I work for also plans on hanging on to xp until the bitter end. |
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mike
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| Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| The company I work for also plans on hanging on to xp until the bitter end. |
At least they know what they are getting.
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Graeme
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| Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 12:53 am Post subject: The bitter end ? |
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I still run my eprom programmer from an Apricot Zen using Windows 3.1.
It's mint !
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darkstarz1
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Graeme said
I still run my eprom programmer from an Apricot Zen using Windows 3.1.
 I occasionally play Asteroids and Space Invaders on a mono(green screen) 15"CRT running off a Dell 486DX with 512k ram running Windows 3.11, played under Dos6.22 - the games boot off a command line, runs seamlessly....  ..those were the days..... 
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mike
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Ah yes - frequent unexplained freezes, BSD at least once a day - but it was an improvement on what was available.
Windows '95 has a lot to answer for !
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r_g_bowman
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My first experience of programming was in 1977 on a PDP-11. Prime number sieve (on punched tape!). Funny how our multi core desktop supercomputers are now crunching on .... prime number sieves!
Here's the beauty. I can still feel the excitement and sense of wonder 
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Phreddy
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that picture makes me feel old 
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