Posted on 04/18/2011 8:37:42 AM PDT by Former Fetus
I need some computer advice, and I don't know of a better place than FR.
My desktop pc is warning me that it is ready for retirement: sound is off, sometimes does not allow me to type, keeps freezing... My problem is that I love Windows XP and both my husband and son have Vista and they do nothing but complain about it. Can anybody give me an objective opinion of Windows 7? What do you like/dislike about it? If you had a choice between Windows XP and Windows 7, which one would you choose? Thanks to everybody!
I can’t play my games on Linux.
I hated Vista, and some features of Win 7 are nice, but I found WindowsXP to be much more User friendly.
Sorry for all the typos,, tired and my eyes are going bad.
Yep, I guess that’s the drawback. For me I don’t care about games so it’s a bit easier..
You need a good dosage of games to round out your life.
Otherwise you just won’t be any fun. :(
I run XP Pro and have no experience with 7, but I turn off indexing on all my drives and instead use a little freeware utility called Everything.
This provides searches in *realtime* (files are listed/narrowed down as you type in the query). It’s sooo much faster than any native Windows search utility I’ve ever seen from Win 95 through XP it makes Microsoft look like idiots. Give it a try, you might like it as well. And if you don’t, just remove it without any pain.
Let me ask one more question, and it will show you how computer-challenged I am. I bought some time ago an external hard drive for all the family pics, but I soon got tired to move them one at a time. Is there any way I could copy EVERYTHING into the external hard drive, before I lose the pics, and then organize and/or delete at my leisure? Thanks again for everybody's help!
You should be able to copy over the entire folder with all your pictures and just organize them whenever. It may take a bit of time depending on how large your photo folder is.Basically you can drag over entire folders to the external and it’ll work on it’s own. Hope this helps.
“Can I just ignore them if they fail? “
Most often it’s one of the plethora of .net updates that fail and endlessly cycle. For any update, you can go into the updating system and right click on it and mark it hidden so it won’t update again.
To actually fix .net update problems, MS tells you to go to add/remove and remove all .net stuff and start over to fix those update problems. If you don’t have an app that needs .net them it doesn’t really matter. As for any other updates, hard to say how critical they are.
My buddy is a web designer and couldn’t take the irritation of running the beta versions on Win 7.
max: “...call me a dinosaur and I;m not even 30 years old.”
Nah, *I* am a dinosaur. Heck, I had a BITNET:: address...
Posting from this O.S.
bellman(peter) 17:29% uname -a
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53 UTC 2010 root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
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Favorite O.S. quote: Two things of note have come out of Berkeley: UNIX and LSD. This is not a coincidence.
Peet (Former BOFH and Sysadmin: CDC-NOS, CDC-NOS/VE, DEC Ultrix, DEC OSF1, DEC D-UNIX, SunOS, Solaris, and so on. Dain bramage optional.)
This post is a total waste of time because I am TOTALLY unqualified to comment on windows ANYthing... But what the hey — I had fun!
Hmmm. I have no idea what version of XP I have. I bought it in 2004. It's probably not the latest version, owing to the age.
Upthread, I was informed that Fry's has offered Windows 7 in a three pack for just under $100 a couple of times recently. That would probably be the way to go for me, provided my old 'puter meets the requirements.
Thanks, AC. I'll do that before I shell out the big bucks for Windows 7 :-)
“Windows 7 is the best operating system Microsoft ever put out, if you like XP youll love Windows 7. Really, it is fantastic.”
Except that, like Vista, it needs about twice as much memory and video resources as XP does. Personally, when I can no longer get the five OEM copies of XP I have to work, I will switch to Ubuntu Linux, unless something better comes along.
I would happily switch back to MS-DOS if it would recognize the larger drives and USB, etc. Visicalc is still available, now for free, and it still runs under XP. Never bothered to try it on the one Vista machine in our house, and won’t ever buy another. Or Windows 7.
No prob, I was able to read your post just fine. I'm not having any serious issues with my old box. I just don't have the license key for the Windows XP OS that's in it.
I bought it used for $150, and totally forgot to ask for the original disk and the license key, but oh well. It's time for me to get a new box anyway.
My 7 yr old keeps me going with games like trampoline tae kwondo ha ha now that’s way more fun than any computer game I’ve ever run across :-)
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