On 09/01/2014 21:24, Uncle Peter wrote:
On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:21:04 -0000, Jim Hawkins
wrote:

What do you gain by upgrading from
XP Pro to Win 7 Pro ?
And what do you lose ?

If you're going to change, why not go straight to 8 and have a more up
to date OS with better hardware support (it does UEFI properly for a
start) and nicer more sensible interfaces for file copying etc? The
metro interface is the only thing that's annoying, but you don't have to
use it. Simply delete all the links to the stupid news and weather
apps and use the metro screen like a huge full screen start menu. And
the start button, contrary to popular belief, is still there, it's just
invisible - you can click bottom left as though it was there. And if
you apply the patch to 8.1 it puts it back anyway. Oh and it starts
MUCH faster than 7.

And if you install Classic Shell, you can boot straight to the desktop
and have the conventional Start Button, program menu, etc. of Windows
XP/Vista/7.

SteveW