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Poll Question: Which do you use? If multiple, pick your favorite/most heavily used.
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Hey... those who already have Windows 7... it really works well...??? Vista didn't aloud me to connect sound patches and workstations synth... so I formated my computer and install the old  XP...
Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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I have three computers - 1 Laptop that runs WinXP; An old desktop that has both W98 and W2000 and my latest desktop which has Vista. Have to say I am not fond of Vista and much prefer WXP. However, my favourite for stableness is W2000. I am interested to see what others think of the new Win7. I don't think I will be upgrading just yet.

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I have a Windows Vista and an iMac.  I honestly can't say which one I prefer.  I use the Vista for offline activities like Gaming and Microsoft Word, but I use the Mac for surfing the Internet.
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I don`t know what the hell OS is but it must be some computer feature that slows things down so I voted for the 8 track and paper. My 8 track player still works believe it or not.
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Ubuntu Linux!
 
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Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Ubuntu Linux!
 
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Windows but the paper and 8 track sounds much better.



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Operating systems are for wimps.  I've been doing all this telepathically.

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Vista - not perfect, but it works
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Originally posted by tamijo tamijo wrote:

Vista - not perfect, but it works

I've had some experience with Vista on three computers and I'm not really convinced that it works. Tongue

I will say something nice about it though.  It's the only Windows that ran Peter Gabriel's Explora program since 3.1, which didn't run that too well.  I might be running some more experiments with it if I haven't been too busy dealing with flood things.


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Operating systems are for wimps.  I've been doing all this telepathically.


Was it you hacking into my brain and leaving filthy images?



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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by tamijo tamijo wrote:

Vista - not perfect, but it works

I've had some experience with Vista on three computers and I'm not really convinced that it works. Tongue


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Originally posted by mrcozdude mrcozdude wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Operating systems are for wimps.  I've been doing all this telepathically.


Was it you hacking into my brain and leaving filthy images?

Yeah, that was me, I apologize. Tongue

^ Best laugh of the day for me Padrimaniac. LOL


Edited by Slartibartfast - November 12 2009 at 14:39
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Originally posted by valravennz valravennz wrote:

I have three computers - 1 Laptop that runs WinXP; An old desktop that has both W98 and W2000 and my latest desktop which has Vista. Have to say I am not fond of Vista and much prefer WXP. However, my favourite for stableness is W2000. I am interested to see what others think of the new Win7. I don't think I will be upgrading just yet.


Apparently upgrading from XP to 7 is a massive b*tch. Takes about 8 times as long as it should, and usually tells you you need to reset about 40 times




XP is great for me right now, although its likely I'll get a Mac soon.
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Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Originally posted by valravennz valravennz wrote:

I have three computers - 1 Laptop that runs WinXP; An old desktop that has both W98 and W2000 and my latest desktop which has Vista. Have to say I am not fond of Vista and much prefer WXP. However, my favourite for stableness is W2000. I am interested to see what others think of the new Win7. I don't think I will be upgrading just yet.


Apparently upgrading from XP to 7 is a massive b*tch. Takes about 8 times as long as it should, and usually tells you you need to reset about 40 times




XP is great for me right now, although its likely I'll get a Mac soon.
I learnt my lesson when upgrading from Windows NT/2000 and Windows 95/98 to XP - never, ever upgrade, ever. Always start from scratch, buy a new hard-drive and do a clean install of the newer operating system - keep the old hard-drive as backup, copy over any files you want to keep and do a fresh install of all your old apps. Unless your hardware is less than a year old the chances are the system will still not perform that great because the old motherboard lacks too many newer features that the new OS relies on, or will simply be too under-resourced in processor speed and memory capability. Same applies to Office 2007/8 - if your system runs Office 97 okay then leave it because Office 2008 on an old PC runs like an elephant in treacle. LOL
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Originally posted by valravennz valravennz wrote:

I have three computers - 1 Laptop that runs WinXP; An old desktop that has both W98 and W2000 and my latest desktop which has Vista. Have to say I am not fond of Vista and much prefer WXP. However, my favourite for stableness is W2000. I am interested to see what others think of the new Win7. I don't think I will be upgrading just yet.
Apparently upgrading from XP to 7 is a massive b*tch. Takes about 8 times as long as it should, and usually tells you you need to reset about 40 times XP is great for me right now, although its likely I'll get a Mac soon.

I learnt my lesson when upgrading from Windows NT/2000 and Windows 95/98 to XP - never, ever upgrade, ever. Always start from scratch, buy a new hard-drive and do a clean install of the newer operating system - keep the old hard-drive as backup, copy over any files you want to keep and do a fresh install of all your old apps. Unless your hardware is less than a year old the chances are the system will still not perform that great because the old motherboard lacks too many newer features that the new OS relies on, or will simply be too under-resourced in processor speed and memory capability. Same applies to Office 2007/8 - if your system runs Office 97 okay then leave it because Office 2008 on an old PC runs like an elephant in treacle. LOL


I still forget to "Save as Office 2003 Document" before I email assignments into school, which gets incredibly annoying. Since '07 can open both types, I don't see why it bothers to save them as the new format to begin with. Waste of time if you ask me!


I had a problem with upgrading recently - Finally decided to get the new "Windows Live Messenger" (was previously running good ol' MSN 7) and after resetting as per instructions, it deleted my MSN without installing WLM. But now I can't attempt to re-install WLM, because when I run the installer it says its already installed
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Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:



I still forget to "Save as Office 2003 Document" before I email assignments into school, which gets incredibly annoying. Since '07 can open both types, I don't see why it bothers to save them as the new format to begin with. Waste of time if you ask me!

 
That's because you are not using any of the new features. Once you use them saving in the old format is not possible. I use the >256 column capability and conditional formatting features of Excel 2008 a lot and cannot save them as 2003 format.
Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:


I had a problem with upgrading recently - Finally decided to get the new "Windows Live Messenger" (was previously running good ol' MSN 7) and after resetting as per instructions, it deleted my MSN without installing WLM. But now I can't attempt to re-install WLM, because when I run the installer it says its already installed
Life without messyger, sounds ideal to me Tongue LOL
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

I still forget to "Save as Office 2003 Document" before I email assignments into school, which gets incredibly annoying. Since '07 can open both types, I don't see why it bothers to save them as the new format to begin with. Waste of time if you ask me!  

That's because you are not using any of the new features. Once you use them saving in the old format is not possible. I use the >256 column capability and conditional formatting features of Excel 2008 a lot and cannot save them as 2003 format.


Ah, fair enough. Right now for assignments, all I need is Arial size 12 with 1.5 line spacing

Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

I had a problem with upgrading recently - Finally decided to get the new "Windows Live Messenger" (was previously running good ol' MSN 7) and after resetting as per instructions, it deleted my MSN without installing WLM. But now I can't attempt to re-install WLM, because when I run the installer it says its already installed

Life without messyger, sounds ideal to me Tongue LOL



Blasphemy!

Eh, MSN is good for me right now. Lets me keep in touch with friends online whilst avoiding FaceBook, MySpace etc etc...

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^ I bet you're a wiz at texting too Tongue
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

^ I bet you're a wiz at texting too Tongue


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