On 07/01/2014 19:35, Jim Hawkins wrote:
"Clive George" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 07/01/2014 18:21, Jim Hawkins wrote:
What do you gain by upgrading from
XP Pro to Win 7 Pro ?

Support/patches.
64 bit if you're sensible and hence ability to use more than 3G memory.
Task manager is better.
It's more stable IME.

And what do you lose ?

Money if the upgrade costs?
UAC can be a bit of a pain if you set it up wrong.

What's UAC ?

A widget that traps any attempt by an application to make a change that
requires privilege, and if permitted, grant it temporarily.

Later versions of windows moved away from the admin privileges by
default security model to one that can gain them only when required.

You can knobble it under Win 7 if you want.


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Cheers,

John.

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