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To: Alex Murphy
Actually, Windows 7 was a HUGE improvement over Windows Vista--Vista on anything less than a machine that supports x86-64 instructions and 4 GB of RAM was terrible.
22 posted on 04/29/2015 2:47:51 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88
Eh, I have a separate HDD with Windows Vista, that is installed in an IBM laptop (from 2008). It works reasonably well.

The only reason I even keep it around, is that I can't use ANY of my preferred hypervisor kits in Windows 7/8+:

Hyper-V requires an AMD64 processor, hardware X-D support, Intel VT-x/AMD-V (hardware virtualisation), and address-translation support.

VMWare requires an AMD64 processor, or an IA-32 processor with the features described above. You don't even need any of those features in AMD64 mode! (X-D support is included in all AMD64 chips as a standard feature)

The legacy Connectix products do not even work in Windows 7+.


It was either that, or dropping down to Windows 2000...

29 posted on 04/29/2015 3:06:52 PM PDT by __rvx86 (Ted Cruz: Proving that conservative populism is a winning strategy. GO CRUZ!)
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