Get it and dump Vista.
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I still have XP ...... look at that as an Emoticon XP XP XP it looks like a dead guy sticking his tongue out or something, you think they did that on purpose to mock us?
you're using it?
7 feels very much like Vista. We have all 3 in the house and **knock on wood** they are all pretty stable. I still think my trusty xp desktop (the oldest by a few years) is the fastest.
Better then XP?
I had XP 32 on this home built system with 4g ram. I upgraded to W7 64-bit and upped the ram to 8gigs.
It's faster with less CPU usage now. I can run all kinds of apps at the same time with ease. It's freaking crazy.
It's faster with less CPU usage now. I can run all kinds of apps at the same time with ease. It's freaking crazy.
Yes, at first I didn't want to leave XP after the disapointment I had with Vista.
I guess you can say Windows 7 is a cleaned up better version than Vista.
I like it....maybe because it's new.
It's good for those who download items over the net and don't know how or where to save it.
I have no issues at all with Vista, however I did not "upgrade" I bought 2 new Compaq PC's that had Vista installed on them.
Windows 7 is good.....When I did Xp installation I had to be ready with atleast 5 different driver cd's.....with W7 I just need one cd...& if any other drivers are missing then in few minutes W7 suggested direct download link to hardware manufacturer's website...which I think is really great...no more hunting for drivers.
That was what I was afraid of, although I wouldn't expect them to change back the old Explorer navigation. I really just do not like the way you nav through Explorer for directories/files, and the different colors for certain folders sucks, I never liked that function - maybe thats just me.
As for stability though I can't say I ever had a problem with the one laptop we have at the house that has Vista on it, its just that I dont like it. I changed what I could to the old XP look and the rest I live with, begrudgingly. I'm still happy with XP for my personal computers.
I thought it was more efficient, I have 2 gigs on the laptop and it runs fine. However I turn off a lot of visualizations, after all, why do I want to wait for a menu to materialize when I right click something? I want it NOW I don't want to wait for it to 'teleport' into place...
If you are using fancy visualizations or haven't defragmented in awhile, try that. Or take a look at startup programs, a lot of stuff likes to stay resident in memory to open faster, but it ends up taking up RAM sitting there doing nothing, i.e. Quicktime and the like.
If you are using fancy visualizations or haven't defragmented in awhile, try that. Or take a look at startup programs, a lot of stuff likes to stay resident in memory to open faster, but it ends up taking up RAM sitting there doing nothing, i.e. Quicktime and the like.
I use a program called Win Patrol that manages start-ups, and I don't think that's an issue. Maybe I should change the settings. It's not too slow, but it's slower than XP was when I had one gig on the same desktop.
Just saw that it cost $120 to upgrade. I'll pass until I get a new computer. Or get smart and invest in a Mac.
Just saw that it cost $120 to upgrade. I'll pass until I get a new computer. Or get smart and invest in a Mac.
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I was looking at benchmarks the other day, and XP smoked windows 7 on all test. I actually saw no advantage to moving to windows 7 other than the pretty interface.
I'd rather stick with XP which still runs like a champion on my 5 year old equipment.
One good thing to say about 7 is that it performed petty than vista on all benchmarks.
I'd rather stick with XP which still runs like a champion on my 5 year old equipment.
One good thing to say about 7 is that it performed petty than vista on all benchmarks.
DX11 and 64bit. Yes there's a WinXP 64bit, but good luck with that.
Only cost me 30$ anyway.
W7 is less resourse intensive than Vista.
With 32-bit systems the max RAM you can use is less than 4g. Having more RAM is good and it's pretty cheap right now. If you want PC goodness W7 64-bit is the way to go, IMHO.
I have a Mac Mini for media serving, kinda fun to play with, great form factor.
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Yeah I tried 64bit xp, and was terrible. What is so nice about directX 11?
I used to be happy with Windows 98 SE...I even kept it when Windows ME and 2000 came out. Both were crap.
I felt the same about XP but I took a liking to win 7.
I felt the same about XP but I took a liking to win 7.
I liked 2k, but 98 was pretty good to me also. So was Win95 OSR2 for that matter, and my old combo DOS 6.2/Win3.11, NT4 was also good to me on most systems (driver support was iffy, no plug and play without special INF files).
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Windows ME was the worst operating system Microsoft put out by far!
got a computer with that on it, and that was the turning point for me and pretty much provoked me to be a pirate lol, Windows 2000 was the first piece of software I ever pirated, I felt they owed me after I spent so much on a computer that came with ME that crashed all the fucking time!
