On 07/01/2014 20:23, bm wrote:
"Jim Hawkins" wrote in message
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What do you gain by upgrading from
XP Pro to Win 7 Pro ?
And what do you lose ?

Jim Hawkins

I had XP pro on this lappy (circa 2004, single core mind), great, love it.
Installed w7 pro, dire. Absolutely everything was so much slower, click an
icon, make a cuppa. So - I have XP pro on this lappy

Win 7 needs more ram - if it has enough then its generally as quick or
quicker than XP. Without it however it runs like a dog (three legged!)

Didn't like win7 explorer plus a few other things, image file increased from
~7gig (XP) to ~20gig (w7).
Real progress *ahem*.

Later OSes are bigger (unless viewed as a fraction of averaged hard
drive sizes!) - live with it.


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Cheers,

John.

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